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Selwyn Bean

British Archdeacon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ14945689 ↗
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Arthur Selwyn Bean (23 April 1886 – 4 July 1981) was Archdeacon of Manchester from 1934 to 1966.

He was educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand and Keble College, Oxford and ordained in 1910. After a curacy in Rugby he held incumbencies at Ribby with Wrea, Weaste, and Astley. He was an Honorary Chaplain to the Forces during World War II and an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1952 to 1969.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Selwyn Bean” is british Archdeacon. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Selwyn, Bean and British, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1886, 1981, 1934, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886-04-23. For this dossier, Selwyn, Bean and British is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14945689. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1886, 1981, 1934 and 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Selwyn Bean” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.