title: Frank Bennett (scholar)
text: # Frank Bennett (scholar)
  
  Frank Selwyn Macaulay Bennett was a reforming dean of Chester in the first half of the 20th century and an Anglican scholar.
  
  He was born on 28 October 1866 and educated at Sherborne and Keble College, Oxford. He was private chaplain to Bishop Jayne of Chester and then held incumbencies at Portwood and Hawarden before his elevation to the deanery. A man who made Chester Cathedral "the home of the Diocese, he died on 14 November 1947.
  
  