John Oakley (priest)

John Oakley (28 October 1834 – 10 June 1890) was Dean of Carlisle and then Manchester in the last quarter of the 19th century.^[1][2]

Born in Frindsbury, Kent, Oakley was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and ordained in 1858.^[1] After curacies at St Luke’s, Berwick Street,^[3] and St James, Piccadilly, London,^[4] he was then Vicar of St Saviour’s, Hoxton^[5] followed by a short spell in Carlisle as Dean of the cathedral followed by a further six years at Manchester, also as dean.