Hewlett Johnson (1874 - 1966)
(Dean of Canterbury Cathedral 1937 - 1963)

Clergyman, born in Macclesfield, Cheshire, NWC England, UK. He studied at the universities of Manchester and Oxford, became an engineering apprentice, and did welfare work in the Manchester slums. He joined the Independent Labour Party, entered the Church, and was ordained in 1905. He became Dean of Manchester (1924) and Dean of Canterbury (1931–63). In 1938 he visited Russia, and became an untiring champion of the Communist state and Marxist policies, which involved him in continuous and vigorous controversy in Britain. He received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951. His publications include Christians and Communism (1956) and the autobiographical Searching for Light (1968).