Michael Yorke

Michael Leslie Yorke was an 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 as Dean Emeritus.

Notes

↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0
↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
↑ Church web-site
↑ History In Portsmouth

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

Provosts and Deans of Portsmouth

Provosts	Bernard Williams Thomas Masters Eric Porter Goff Michael Nott David Stancliffe Michael Yorke William Taylor (became Dean)

Deans	William Taylor (previously Provost) David Brindley

Deans of Lichfield

Medieval	Stephen Seagrave Roger de Convenis John Garssia Richard FitzRalph John of Thoresby Simon de Brisele John Bokyngham William de Manton Laurence de Ibstock Anthony Rous Francis de Teobaldeschi William Pakington Thomas de Stretton Robert Wolveden John Verney Thomas Heywood

Early modern	John Yotton Ralph Colyngwood James Denton Richard Sampson Henry Williams John Ramridge Laurence Nowell George Boleyn James Montague William Tooker Walter Curle Augustine Lindsell John Warner Samuel Fell Griffin Higgs William Paul Thomas Wood Matthew Smallwood Lancelot Addison William Binckes Jonathan Kimberley William Walmesley Nicholas Penny John Addenbrooke Baptist Proby

Late modern	John Woodhouse Henry Howard William Champneys Edward Bickersteth Herbert Luckock Henry Savage Frederic Iremonger William MacPherson George Holderness John Lang Tom Wright Michael Yorke Adrian Dorber Pete Wilcox (Acting)

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