Michael Leslie Yorke

Michael Leslie Yorke

The Very Rev Michael Leslie Yorke was an eminent Anglican Priest in the last decades of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st.[1] He was born on 25 March 1939[2] and educated at Midhurst Grammar School and

Magdalene College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1965 his first post was a curacy at Croydon Parish Church [3] after which he served as Succentor, Precentor and Chaplain at Chelmsford Cathedral. Following this he was Rector of Hadstock, a Canon Residentiary at Chelmsford Cathedral, Vicar of St Margaret’s with St Nicholas, King’s Lynn and Provost of Portsmouth Cathedral.[4] In 1999 he became Dean of Lichfield, and is now in retirement Dean Emeritus.

Church of England titles
Preceded by
David Staffurth Stancliffe
Provost of Portsmouth
1994 – 1999
Succeeded by
William Henry Taylor
Preceded by
Nicholas Thomas Wright
Dean of Lichfield
1999 – 2005
Succeeded by
Adrian John Dorber

Notes

  1. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 9780715110300
  2. ^ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 9780713672576
  3. ^ Church web-site
  4. ^ History In Portsmouth