Master Hugh Mead

We have been informed that Master Hugh Mead (The Rev Hugh Mead) sadly died on Thursday 13 August 2026, aged 87.

Master Mead was a Lightfoot Scholar in Ecclesiastical History in 1961. He was awarded a Bachelor of Letters in Theology at Oxford in 1966. He was Senior History Master at Karachi Grammar School in 1964 and 1965, before joining St Paul’s School, London, where he taught from 1966 to 1997. At St Paul’s, he was successively Head of History and, following his ordination in 1980, Chaplain and Head of Religious Studies. He published a history of St Paul’s School in 1990 and was also the founder of St Paul’s Croquet Club.

From 1985 to 2009, Master Mead officiated at the Chapel Royal as Priest and Deputy Priest in Ordinary to The Queen. He served as Reader of the Temple from 1995 to 2015, during which time he regularly took Thursday Holy Communion services and provided invaluable support to the Master of the Temple.

He was elected a Governing Bencher of the Inn upon his retirement in 2015.

The Inn’s flag was flown at half-mast in his memory on Tuesday 1 September 2026. A funeral service will take place at St Luke’s Church, Kingston upon Thames, at 1.30 p.m. on Friday 11th September. No flowers. Donations to St Luke’s or to Royal Trinity Hospice: https://www.royaltrinityhospice.london/arthur-hugh–mead-5143

Details of a memorial service will be circulated in due course as appropriate.