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The Very Rev Cuthbert Carroll Thicknesse -LRB- 19 November 1887 -- 2 June 1971 -RRB- was Dean of St Albans from 1936 until his retirement in 1955 .. Very Rev. Very Reverend. Dean of St Albans. Dean of St Albans. Born into an ecclesiastical family and educated at Marlborough and Keble College , Oxford , he was ordained in 1913 .. Marlborough. Marlborough College. ordained. ordained. He was firstly a Curate of St John-at-Hackney and then a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces , during which time he married Rhoda Oonah Marjorie Madan Pratt .. Curate. Curate. St John-at-Hackney. Church of St John-at-Hackney. Temporary Chaplain. Chaplain. Forces. British Armed Forces. He was wounded at Ypres and became Rector of Badsworth , after which he was Rector of Wigan Parish Church and an Honorary Chaplain to the King before his elevation to the Deanery .. Ypres. Battle of Passchendaele. Rector. Rector ( ecclesiastical ). Badsworth. Badsworth. Wigan Parish Church. All Saints' Church, Wigan. Honorary Chaplain to the King. Honorary Chaplain to the King. Deanery. Deanery. A fierce opponent of nuclear weapons , he refused to hold a service of celebration in St Albans Cathedral at the cessation of the war with Japan in August 1945 .. St Albans Cathedral. St Albans Cathedral. He was described in his obituary as `` a high church man and convinced Anglican '' .