The Right Reverend Michael Mann Mann returned to England in 1955 and was ordained into the Christian ministry two years later. He was assistant curate of Wolborough, Newton Abbot, and then vicar of Sparkwell in Plymouth, before returning to Nigeria in 1962 as vicar of Christ Church, Port Harcourt, for five years. He became Dean of a social and industrial mission in an area where local administration had broken down under the strain of a population explosion. Back in England Mann became a canon of Norwich, with special diocesan responsibility for industrial areas; he also spent six months at Harvard University's business administration school. He was consecrated Suffragan Bishop of Dudley in 1974, a role that suited him well, and many were sorry that the call to Windsor brought it to an end in 1976. With his military and business-school background Mann made a sharp contrast as Dean to the gentle Launcelot Fleming, and demonstrated a whirlwind style associated with Robin Woods during the 1960s. In overseeing the well-being of St George's Chapel he was admired for the adroit manner in which he handled its finances; he also proved a lively preacher, particularly at ease when engaging the boys of St George's in a spontaneous question and answer session. He seldom spoke for longer than seven minutes, believing that if a preacher could not make his points in this time he never would. Some innovations proved unpopular with the more traditional elements of the Castle, such as his decision that Sunday matins should be held in the nave rather than the quire. There were also a considerable number of departures from the Chapel staff in the years immediately following his arrival. Among his more notable services was the offering of prayers in the chapel for the Duchess of Windsor in her last years, though there was some criticism of the fact that her name was not mentioned during her burial service due to an overly strict adherence to the rules. He also assumed the onerous task of overseeing the reburial in Jerusalem of the Duke of Edinburgh's mother, Princess Andrew of Greece, whose body had lain in the Royal Vault since her death in 1969. The task involved eight years of protracted negotiations and then a long day of standing masses and requiems in Jerusalem itself. When he finally checked into his hotel he had been on his feet for 11 hours, having started the day at 4.30am after an overnight flight. Mann established a rapport with the Duke through a series of letters, later published as A Windsor Correspondence; Launcelot Fleming described them as revealing the Duke's questioning mind and deep concern about religious issues, and "the frank and able response of a sympathetic theologian." In addition the Dean encouraged the Duke to chair the annual St George's House Lecture, which was once addressed by the Princess Royal. On the Queen's instructions, Mann arranged an important meeting between leaders of diverse faiths at Windsor in the late 1980s. He was also registrar of the Order of the Garter and chairman of St George's House and the choir school, organising a highly successful appeal for the latter which raised £1 million within six months. After retiring to be an assistant bishop of Gloucester, Mann described being Dean of Windsor as "the best job in the Church of England," and said that his 13 years there were "the most wonderful and happy years." During this time he used the position to take part in affairs well beyond the precincts of the Royal Peculiar. He travelled extensively, and was the driving force behind the setting up of his regiment's museum at Cardiff. He also produced a series of military books, containing arresting detail, which he did not hesitate to advertise in the Report of the Friends of St George's and for which he proved himself an ardent salesman. These volumes included two on the King's Dragoon Guards, And They Rode On, about the Battle of Waterloo, and A Particular Duty, about the Upper Canada rebellion of the late 1830s, for which he drew on the papers of the 2nd Earl Cathcart. He produced histories of the 1st Queen's Dragoon Guards and the Trucial Oman Scouts and an account of the Anglo-French campaign in China of 1860 which burned the summer palace. There was also a description of the invalid companies of soldiers who were recalled to the colours between 1680s and the 1860s, and volume of sermons for soldiers. Mann's was, among many other voluntary appointments, a prelate of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem; national chaplain of the Royal British Legion; trustee of Imperial War Museum and the Army Records Society; and a commissioner of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; he has left his vast library of military books to the National Army Museum. The Right Reverend Michael Mann, who was appointed KCVO in 1989, married, in 1949, Jill Jacques with whom he had a daughter and a son . After his wife's death in 1990, Michael Mann married Elizabeth Pepys, widow of a former Bishop of Buckingham; she died in 2009. The Right Reverend Michael Mann, born May 25 1924, died December 31 2011