Oswin Gibbs-Smith

Who was Oswin Gibbs-Smith?

Oswin Harvard Gibbs-Smith was Dean of Winchester in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born on and educated at Westminster and Clare College, Cambridge. Ordained in 1925, after a short spell as an Assistant Master at Harrow he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Margaret’s, Ilkley. Following this he was Vicar of John Keble Church, Mill Hill, Rector of Christchurch, St Marylebone, Archdeacon of London and a Canon Residentiary of St Paul’s Cathedral before his elevation to the Deanery.