Rectors

Frank Coventry was the Rector of St Marylebone from 1958 – 1994. Frank was born on April 2, 1913. He was educated at the Strand School, Brixton, and later read English at King’s College, London.

In 1948 he spent five years there before being appointed vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Enfield in 1953. Coventry was heart and soul a parish priest and thrived on the round of parish activities. Following the sudden death in 1958 of the Rev J.B.H. Evans, the relatively youthful Rector of St Marylebone, Coventry was appointed by the Crown to the living which was to become his greatest work.

St Marylebone was an extremely busy parish and he devoted his energies to the people of St. Marylebone! In 1973 he was made a Prebendary of St. Paul’s Cathedral and on three occasions served as chaplain to the Lord Mayor of Westminster. Retirement brought little respite from ecclesiastical duties and Coventry worked assiduously during vacancies at St. Mary, Brookfield, St. Mary Magdalene, Munster Square, and St. Saviour, Eton Road!