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Jun 01, 1921 Died on 12 Jun 2013 (aged 92)
Dean of Hong Kong
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About Barry Till
- The Very Rev Barry Dorn Till MA, DD (1 June 1923 – 12 June 2013) was an eminent Anglican priest, author and academic in the second half of the twentieth century. He was born on 1 June 1923, educated at Harrow and served in the Coldstream Guards from 1942 to 1946.
- He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read history and theology and in 1949 was awarded the Cambridge University Lightfoot Scholarship in ecclesiastical history with special commendation.
- Thereafter, he studied at Westcott House, Cambridge, where his tutors included Alan Webster and Harry Williams, and contemporaries included Hugh Montefiore, all of whom remained great friends: he was ordained in 1951.
- After a curacy in Bury, Lancashire he returned to his old college as Fellow, Chaplain and Tutor.
- In 1960 he became Dean of Hong Kong, a post he held until 1964.
- He was Principal of Morley College, London from 1965 to 1986 and Adviser (1973-1986), then Director (1986-1992) of the Baring Foundation.
