Alec Knight
Alexander Francis "Alec" Knight OBE was Dean of Lincoln in the very last years of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1939 and educated at Taunton School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1954, after a spell as a curate at Hemel Hempstead he became chaplain at his old school and then director of the Bloxham Project. From here he became Director of Studies at the Aston Training Scheme then priest in charge of Easton and Martyr Worthy and finally Archdeacon of Basingstoke and a canon residentiary at Winchester Cathedral.
He was appointed OBE in 2006.
