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Hugh Scott Chignell

Dean of Kimberley; British Anglican colonial priest

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Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5932608 ↗
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Hugh Scott Chignell (died 19 September 1950) was Dean of Kimberley, South Africa, and Rector of St Cyprian's Cathedral, Kimberley.

Education and ordination

Chignell was a scholar at the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School. Educated further at London University, his degree equipped him for an initial stint as a schoolmaster before he was ordained at St Asaph Cathedral in North Wales.

South Africa

Chignell went out to Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1920.

During four of the following fifteen years he travelled through southern Africa speaking on spiritual healing.

Kimberley

Chignell was installed as Dean of Kimberley at St Cyprian's Cathedral on 3 March 1935, as successor to Thomas Claude Robson.

It was "no easy task," John Hunter was to note of Chignell’s career, "to follow so widely loved a man as Dean Robson": but in the six years that he was at St Cyprian’s "he endeared himself to his people." In Chignell’s term in Kimberley much effort was put into the project of completing the cathedral building.

Projects at St Cyprian’s Cathedral

Lady Chapel

The cathedral's Lady chapel, dedicated to the memory of Robson, was the first of two major projects that materialised at this time. It was made possible by an outpouring of gratitude by "many friends" (as the memorial plaque states) for the life and work of the late Robson. The foundation stone had been laid by Mrs Euston Brown, and the chapel was consecrated by Theodore Sumner Gibson on 24 May 1936.

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