Nicholas Arthur Frayling KStJ was born on 29 February 1944 and is a British Church of England priest.
17 Facts About Nicholas Frayling
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Nicholas Frayling's father, Major Arthur Frederick Frayling, OBE, late of the Royal Army Service Corps, was chairman of the Hudson's Bay fur auction house in London and of the International Fur Trade Federation; his mother, Barbara Kathleen, daughter of record and audio equipment store owner Alfred Imhof, was a driver in international car rallies, and won the RAC Rally with her brother, Godfrey Imhof, in 1952.
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Nicholas Frayling's brother, Christopher, is a British educationalist and writer.
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Nicholas Frayling was educated at Repton School, a private school in Repton, Derbyshire.
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Nicholas Frayling studied theology at the University of Exeter, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969.
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Nicholas Frayling trained for ordination at Cuddesdon College, an Anglican theological college near Oxford.
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Nicholas Frayling was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1971 and as a priest in 1972.
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Nicholas Frayling then served as Vicar of All Saints Church, Tooting, which is in the Diocese of Southwark.
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In 1983, Nicholas Frayling moved to the Diocese of Liverpool where he served as a canon residentiary and the Precentor of Liverpool Cathedral.
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In July 2013, Nicholas Frayling held a public talk at Chichester Cathedral on the issue of same-sex marriage, as part of the annual Chichester Festivities.
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Nicholas Frayling expressed his view on homosexuality as being "not a choice, but a given".
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Nicholas Frayling is a vocal supporter of interfaith relations and political reconciliation.
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Since 1 May 2014, Nicholas Frayling has served as Dean of the Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem.
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Nicholas Frayling is a former trustee of the Institute for Food, Brain and Behaviour and a former chairman of its predecessor organisation Natural Justice.
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In 2001, Nicholas Frayling was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree by the University of Liverpool.
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Nicholas Frayling was granted the Freedom of the City of Chichester in 2014.
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Nicholas Frayling was appointed Knight of the Order of St John, in April 2020.