Ian White-Thomson

Ian Hugh White-Thomson (18 December 1904 – 11 January 1997)[1] was an Anglican[2] priest and Dean of Canterbury[3] from 1963[4] to 1976.[5]

The son of a former Bishop of Ely, White-Thomson was educated at Harrow School,[6] where he was a Monitor and in the Football XI, and Brasenose.[7] He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1930 and began his career as a Curate at St Mary's, Ashford, Kent.[8] After this he was Rector of S Martin's with St Paul's, Canterbury[9] then Chaplain[10] to[11] three successive[12] Archbishops of Canterbury. He was a governor of his old school from 1947 to 1962 and archdeacon of Northumberland from [13] 1955 to 1963. In 1971 was made an honorary doctor of civil law by the University of Kent;[14] and in 1976 a Freeman of the City of Canterbury.