Jeremy Winston

Jeremy Hugh Winston (20 May 1954 – 21 November 2011) was an Anglican priest. He served as vicar of Abergavenny from 1993 until 2011, and briefly as Dean of Monmouth during 2011.[1]

Early life

Winston was born in Middlesex, near London, in 1954. After the death of his father, the family returned to Pontypool in Wales.[2] He was educated at Griffithstown Primary School and Croesyceiliog Grammar School, where he became head boy, and then went as a music scholar to Trinity College, Carmarthen. He graduated with a B.Ed. and trained to be a teacher. He taught for a while in Llanelli Grammar School before turning to the priesthood. He studied at King's College London and at St Stephen's House, Oxford.[3]

Clerical career

He was ordained in 1980.[4] After a curacy at St Basil, Bassaleg he was vicar of St Arvans with Penterry (Chepstow),[5] before being appointed vicar of Abergavenny in 1993. He was appointed Area Dean of Abergavenny in 2002, and in the same year a canon of St Woolos Cathedral; and in 2011 he was installed as Dean of Monmouth. He was also a director of the Friends of Friendless Churches.[6] He died the same year, from a brain tumor.[7]

References
  1. "The Very Reverend Jeremy Winston". The Telegraph.
  2. "A Life Well and Faithfully Lived". 2 December 2011.
  3. ‘WINSTON, Very Rev. Jeremy Hugh’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 3 April 2015
  4. Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  5. Zorab, Fr Mark (4 December 2011). "All Gas and Gaiters: St Arvans Requiem Mass for the late Fr Jeremy Winston SSC".
  6. Datalog
  7. "Death of the Very Revd Jeremy Winston, Dean of Newport Cathedral". 21 November 2011.


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