Martin Sullivan (priest)

Martin Gloster Sullivan, KCVO (30 March 1910 – 5 September 1980) was an Anglican Dean in the third quarter of the 20th century.

He was born in Auckland^[1] and was educated at Auckland Grammar School and the University of Auckland. He was ordained in 1934^[2] and began his career with a curacy at St Matthew's, Auckland.^[3] After that he held incumbencies at Grey Lynn and Te Awamutu. During the Second World War he was a Chaplain to the Forces and when peace returned Principal of College House, Christchurch. In 1950 he was appointed Dean of Christchurch and vicar-general (1951–1961).

Moving to London he was appointed Rector of St Mary's, Bryanston Square in 1962, then Archdeacon of London the following year.^[4] In 1967 he became Dean of St Paul's,^[5] a post he held for a decade. An eminent author; amongst others he wrote “Children Listen”, 1955; “On Calvary’s Tree”, 1957; “Approach With Joy”, 1961; “A Dean Speaks to New Zealand”, 1962; and “A Funny Thing Happened to me on the way to St Paul’s”, 1968.^[6] In 1965 he was made a Freeman of the City of London.

He died in 1980 at Auckland University. He had married Doris Rosie Grant Cowen in 1934 (daughter of Canon Grant Cowan,^[7] she died 1972) and remarried Elizabeth Roberton in St Paul’s Cathedral in 1973. He had no children.

References

• "Sullivan, Martin Gloster". Dictionary of New Zealamd Biography. Retrieved 2012-12-30. 

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