The Henson Journals

Lewis Dibdin

Lewis Dibdin (1852-1938; ODNB), ecclesiastical lawyer, judge and administrator, QC 1901; kt. 1903; long-standing member and sometime vice-chairman, house of layman, Canterbury convocation; dean of the arches and master of the faculties, 1903-34; first church estates commissioner, 1905-30; member and draftsman, royal commissions on Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1904-6, and on Divorce, 1909-12, and the archbishops' committee on church and state, 1913-16; member, house of laity and legislative committee, Church Assembly, from 1920; vicar general, Canterbury province, 1925-34. See also Volume 69, 72.

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