Alan Webster

Who was Alan Webster?

Alan Brunskill Webster KCVO was an Anglican priest and dean.

Webster's father, the Reverend John Webster, was the vicar of St Margaret's Church in Wrenbury, Cheshire, where he lived until 1935. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and The Queen's College, Oxford.

Webster was ordained in 1942 and began his ordained ministry with curacies in Attercliffe and Arbourthorne. He was then chaplain and vice principal of Westcott House, Cambridge. After this he was the vicar of Barnard Castle and then the warden of Lincoln Theological College. In 1970 he was appointed the Dean of Norwich and, in 1978, of St Paul's Cathedral, London. His writings included Joshua Watson, Broken Bones May Joy, Julian of Norwich and Reaching for Reality.

Webster died on 3 September 2007.