Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

The Very Reverend Arthur Penrhyn Stanley FRS
Dean of Westminster
Church	Church of England
See	Royal Peculiar
In office	1864 to 1881
Predecessor	Richard Chenevix Trench
Successor	George Granville Bradley
Other post(s)	Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History (1856–1863) Rector of the University of St Andrews (1874–1877)
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Born	Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1815-12-13)13 December 1815 Alderley Edge, Cheshire, England
Died	18 July 1881(1881-07-18) (aged 65) London, England
Denomination	Anglicanism
Education	Rugby School
Alma mater	Balliol College, Oxford
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Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, FRS (13 December 1815 – 18 July 1881), known as Dean Stanley, was an English Anglican priest and ecclesiastical historian. He was Dean of Westminster from 1864 to 1881. His position was that of a Broad Churchman and he was the author of a number of works on Church History. He was a co-founder of the Palestine Exploration Fund.