Due to the Abbey's status as a Royal Peculiar, the dean answers directly to the Queen (neither to the Bishop of London as ordinary nor to the Archbishop of Canterbury as metropolitan).
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Initially, the office was a successor to that of abbot of Westminster, and was for the first 10 years a bishopric.
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While at Wright's shop he attracted the attention of John Ireland, William Gifford, and the writers of the Anti-Jacobin who met there, and he witnessed the scuffle there between Gifford and John Wolcot, helping to eject Wolcot.
Arthur Wesley Carr (born 1941), Anglican divine, Dean of Westminster, 1997–2006