Nicholas henshall biography

Nicholas James Henshall (born 6 April 1962) is a British Anglican priest and author, who served as Dean of Chelmsford from 2014 until 2023.
Born in Stockport in Cheshire, in 1944, and attending Stockport Grammar School from an early age, Nick moved with his parents to Rugeley in.
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Medieval man joins BBC Radio Derby

He has a medieval job title, he is fluent in Greek and Latin and he is now the new voice of Sunday Breakfast on BBC Radio Derby.

Despite his classical upbringing, The Canon Precentor of Derby Cathedral, Nicholas Henshall, promises that everyone will be able to follow every word of his programme, as he continues BBC Radio Derby's Sunday morning tradition of mixing favourite hymns with popular music.

Born in Manchester in 1962, Nicholas had a cosmopolitan upbringing, including time living in Rome where he spent his days in a wild monastery surrounded by Irish friars.

He was in Ethiopia in 1985 when the eyes of the world were focussed on the country through Live Aid.

Ordained in 1988, he worked in and around Newcastle before joining the team at Derby Cathedral in 2002.

The Derby-based Canon replaces David Harvey, who will still be keeping a close eye on proceedings as Programme Editor at BBC Radio Derby.

Nicholas says: "I'm really looking forward to the challenge talking to a live

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Obituary: Nicholas Henshall

Great teachers never die: they endure in the lives they change. Nicholas Henshall, who lost a long struggle with cancer on September 16th, shaped countless pupils in three decades as a history master at Stockport Grammar School. In retirement, he reached even wider audiences by writing and lecturing on his passion, the culture and politics of 18th-century Europe.

Nick was the kind of committed, charismatic, contrarian teacher everyone should have. As a ten-year-old, I had no idea how lucky I was. Indeed, I found Nick’s energy and eloquence more than a little frightening and certainly hard to take in: his report on my first year briskly noted: ‘He works sensibly and carefully but is not very enterprising.’ That might have been enough to put anyone off history and to avoid ‘Mr Henshall’ ever after. I stubbornly stuck with it and returned to his classroom for my A-Level. By then, I had a much better idea of Nick’s talents. Thirty years of friendship confirmed what an inspiration he was: resolute in discussion, endlessly curious and emphatically eng

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Our Vicar

From: The Dean

The Very Revd Nicholas Henshall

I am delighted and moved to have been appointed as the next parish priest of St Thomas the Apostle New Groombridge. Christine and I are very much looking forward to living and working among you, and I thought it might be useful here to introduce ourselves.

I was born and grew up in Manchester. After school I spent a year as a student in Athens and then went on to study Greek and Latin at university. After a year working in Rome I came back to the UK to study theology and prepare for ordination.

I was ordained in 1988 and served for four years in a Northumbrian mining town still living with the recent trauma of the Miners' Strike. Christine and I had met as students and got married at the end of my curacy. We then moved to Scotswood in the west end of Newcastle, one of the most deprived communities in the UK. We spent ten years there and our three children were born there. It was a very happy time in our family life, and the work of a community priest in such a place was deeply rewarding - working with schools, commun