(Philip Joseph) Griff Dines is a former Provostof St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow
He was born on 22 June 1959and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle, University College London and Clare College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1987 after a period of study atWestcott House, Cambridge. After curacies in Northolt and Withington he was Vicar of St Martin, Wythenshawe from 1991until his cathedral appointment. In 2005 he became Business Manager of the Macdonald Associates Consultancy. Following his role as Business Manager he became a teacher of mathematics and statistics at Lincoln University Technical College in 2016. Dines was then appointed Head of the Bishop’s Office by the Bishop of Lincoln, the Right Reverend Christopher Lowson, in February 2019 . He is married to his second wife, the Reverend Canon Sally-Anne McDougallwho is Precentor of Lincoln Cathedral and who was, until 2017, Chaplain to Christopher Lowson as Bishop of Lincoln.