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Walter Offley

English Anglican priest

Walter Offley (15 July 1682 – 18 August 1721) was an English Anglican priest, most notably Dean of Chester^[1] from 1718 until his death.^[2]

Offley was born in Crewe and educated at Oriel College, Oxford.^[3] He was also concurrently the Archdeacon of Staffordshire.^[4] He was Chaplain to Henry Herbert, 2nd Baron Herbert of Chirbury.

Notes

^ British History on-line
^ "The history of the county palatine of Chester" Hanshall, J. H p101: Self published, Chester, 1823
^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Offley, Walter" . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
^ Horn, Joyce M. (2003), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, 10, pp. 14–16

Church of England titles
Preceded by Laurence Fogg	Dean of Chester 1718–1721	Succeeded by Thomas Allen

Archdeacons of Stafford and of Lichfield

High Medieval
(Stafford)

Late Medieval
(Stafford)

Early modern
(Stafford)

Late modern
(Stafford)

Lichfield

v t e Deans of Chester
Early modern	Thomas Clerk Henry Man William Cliffe Richard Walker John Piers Richard Langworth Robert Dorset Thomas Modesley John Nutter William Barlow Henry Parry Thomas Mallory William Nichols Henry Bridgeman James Arderne Laurence Fogg Walter Offley Thomas Allen Thomas Brooke William Smith George Cotton
Late modern	Hugh Cholmondeley Robert Hodgson Peter Vaughan Edward Copleston Henry Phillpotts George Davys Frederick Anson John Howson John Darby Frank Bennett Norman Tubbs Michael Gibbs George Addleshaw Ingram Cleasby Stephen Smalley Gordon McPhate Tim Stratford