Introduction
Edward Frederick Carpenter KCVO (27 November 1910 – 26 August 1998) was an Anglican priest and author.
Life
Carpenter was educated at Strode's Grammar School and King's College London and ordained in 1936. After curacies at Holy Trinity, Marylebone and St Mary's Harrow he was Rector of Great Stanmore. After this his ministry was spent at Westminster Abbey, first as a canon, then archdeacon and finally, from 1974, Dean of Westminster. He retired to Richmond, Surrey. He has four children, David, Michael (whose son is the cricketer Ed Carpenter), Paul and Louise.
Carpenter wrote Common sense about Christian ethics as part of the Common Sense series.
He was the first chairman of the Week of Prayer for World Peace, a global interfaith initiative created by the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship.