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{{about|the English vicar|the Irish poet|John Mee (poet)}}
The [[Very Reverend|Very Rev.]] '''John Mee''', [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|MA]] (3 May 1824 in [[Nottingham]] – 19 September 1883 in [[Fort William, Scotland|Fort William]])<ref name="brit_Fune">{{Cite news| title = Funeral Of The Late Very Rev. J. Mee At Westbourne | newspaper= Hampshire Telegraph |page=12 col G |issue=5337 | date = 29 September 1883 | accessdate = 2015-09-16 | url = http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000069/18830929/068/0012 | via= [[British Newspaper Archive]] |url-access=subscription }}</ref> was the inaugural [[Dean of Grahamstown]] in [[South Africa]].<ref>{{cite news|title=General Intelligence|newspaper=Lancaster Gazette|date= October 4, 1862|page=3|issue =3940}}</ref>{{sfn|Gould|1924|p=xviii}}{{efn|"... John Mee, the first Dean, who only held office for a short time, was in his turn succeeded by a far more notable man."{{sfn|Gould|1924|p=29}} }}▼
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He was educated at [[Christ's College, Cambridge]] and [[ordained]] in 1849. His first post was a [[Curate|curacy]] at All Saints, [[Derby]]. He was the [[Incumbent (ecclesiastical)|incumbent]] at [[Riddings]] from 1850 to 1854 when he went with the [[Church Mission Society|CMS]] to [[South Africa]]. On his return to [[England]] he was at St Jude, [[Southwark]] from 1864 to 1871; and after that [[St John the Baptist's Church, Westbourne]] from then until his death.<ref>{{acad |id=MY845J |name=Mee, John |volume= |year= |ref= |accessdate=5 Jun 2014 |hide errors=}}</ref>
He was married twice; first to Eleanor Flower of Derby; their son was the Oxford clergyman, composer and author on musical subjects [[John Henry Mee]]. He married his second wife, Ellen Mary Marten, on 26 April 1866 at St. Thomas', [[Clapton, London|Upper Clapton]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Howard |first1=Joseph Jackson |last2=Crisp |first2=Frederick Arthur |title=Visitation of England and Wales |date=1893 |publisher=[London] : Priv. printed |pages=62-63 |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationenglan06howa/page/62/mode/2up?view=theater}}</ref>
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* {{cite book|first=Charles|last=Gould|title=Grahamstown Cathedral: A Guide and Short History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_vadHwAACAAJ|year=1924|publisher=Grahamstown Diocesan Registry
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