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Very Reverend

By custom the Dean of the Chapel Royal, the Dean of the Thistle and (if a Church of Scotland minister) the Principal of St Mary's College, St Andrews, are also styled The Very Reverend.



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Admiralty Mountains

It was discovered in January 1841 by Captain Ross who named it for the Very Reverend Dr. George Peacock, Dean of Ely.

Baron Leigh

The Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh, third son of the first Baron, was Dean of Hereford.

Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh

Their third and youngest son the Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh Dean of Hereford.

Dr Charles James Fox

- On Monday last, at eleven o'clock a solemn Mass of Requiem for this good and exemplary Catholic, whose demise we had to record last week, was celebrated (presenti corpore) in this church by the Bishop of Amyela, the Very Rev. G. Last (Canon of Westminster) being Assistant Priest, and the Revv.

Giles Alington, Lord of Horseheath

Another notable descendant is the Very Reverend Cyril Argentine Alington (d. 1955), Chaplain to H.M. King George V, Dean of Durham, and sometime Headmaster of Eton College.

James Sinclair, 14th Earl of Caithness

Caithness was the son of Alexander Sinclair, 13th Earl of Caithness, and his wife Frances Harriet, daughter of the Very Reverend William Leigh, Dean of Hereford.

Kirking of the Parliament

All four instances of the Kirking have been led by the Very Reverend Gilleasbuig Macmillan, Minister of St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.

Marion Pardy

Marion Pardy was successor to the Very Reverend Bill Phipps-a Moderator who instigated deep conversation in the church with regard to Christology.

Nikanor Grujić

Born as Milutin Grujić on December 12, 1810 or December 1 (Julian calendar) in Lippó (Lipova), Baranya county (then Austrian empire) to Very Reverend Prokopije Grujić and Agripina, née Kosić.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cloyne

The Very Reverend Dr. Thady O'Brien, Regius Professor of Theology of the University of Toulouse and Rector of the Irish College Toulouse, born 12 March 1671 at Robertstown, Gortroe, in the diocese of Cloyne; oradined at Toulouse on 2 June 1703; Rector of the Irish College Tolouse 1706-1715; Parish Priest of Castlelyons 1715-1747; died 10 October 1747 at Castlelyons where he was interred.

St Patrick's Cathedral, Parramatta

The current bishop is the Most Reverend Anthony Fisher O.P. The current dean is the Very Reverend John Mcsweeny (appointed 2012).

Wrenbury

The Very Reverend Alan Brunskill Webster (1918–2007), author and Dean of the cathedrals of Norwich and St Paul's, was born in Wrenbury.