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Richard John Forrester Mayston CBE was an Anglican priest.

He was born in Dublin on 23 January 1907, educated at Trinity College, Dublin and ordained in 1931. He began his career as a curate in Holywood, County Down. Commissioned into the Royal Army Chaplains' Department, he served until 1958. He then became Provost of Leicester Cathedral, a post he held until his death on 13 May 1963.

Notes

1. "The Mayston Chair", Leicester Anglican Cathedral
2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48 Oxford: OUP (1947)
3. "Who was Who, 1897–2007", Who's Who, London: A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
4. "Very Rev. R. J. F. Mayston Provost of Leicester", The Times, 14 May 1963; p. 17; Issue 55700; column B

• 1907 births
• Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
• Royal Army Chaplains' Department officers
• Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
• Provosts and Deans of Leicester
• 1963 deaths