Gordon McPhate

Gordon Ferguson McPhate (born 1 June 1950)^[1] is the current Dean of Chester.^[2]

McPhate was educated at the University of Aberdeen, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh.^[3] After a spell as a tutor in Physiology at Clare College, he was ordained in 1979.^[4] He later held lectureships at Guy’s Hospital and the University of St Andrews.^[5] He was an honorary curate at Sanderstead,^[6] then an honorary Minor Canon at Southwark Cathedral^[7] and an honorary chaplain at St Andrews,^[8] before his elevation^[9] to the Deanery.^[10]

References

1. Burke's Peerage
2. Debrett's People of Today London, Debrett's, 2008 ISBN 978-1-870520-95-9
3. ‘McPHATE, Very Rev. Gordon Ferguson’, Who's Who 2016, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2016
4. Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009 (100th edition), Church House Publishing (ISBN 978-0-7151-1030-0).
5. Who's Who 2012 – McPHATE, Gordon Ferguson
6. exploring surrey's past
7. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
8. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
9. London Gazette
10. Anglican communion