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George Wilfrid Blenkin was Dean of St Albans from 1914 until his death in 1924. Born into an ecclesiastical family on 16 February 1861 and educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he was ordained in 1886. He was successively chaplain of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and then of Trinity College, Cambridge and finally Vicar of Brading before his appointment as dean. He died on 24 September 1924.