John Oakley

Who was John Oakley?

The Very Rev John Oakley DD was Dean of Carlisle and then Manchester in the last quarter of the 19th century.

Born in 1834, he was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1858. After curacies at St Luke’s, Berwick Street and St James, Piccadilly, London, he was then Vicar of St Saviour’s, Hoxton followed by a short spell in Carlisle as Dean of the cathedral followed by a further six years at Manchester. also as Dean. He died on 10 June 1890.