George Addleshaw


George William Outram Addleshaw was an Anglican cleric who was Dean of Chester in the third quarter of the 20th century.
He was born in 1906 in Gorefield Vicarage, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, the son of Canon Stanley Addleshaw. He was educated at Bromsgrove and Trinity College, Oxford. Ordained in 1931, he was initially a Curate at Highfield Parish Church, Southampton. Following this he became Vice Principal of St Chad's College, Durham, then a Canon Residentiary at York Minster before his elevation to the Deanery of Chester. A man with extensive knowledge of church architecture, he died on 14 June 1982.
In the 1950s, Addleshaw was living at 10 Precentor's Court, adjacent to York Minster.