Anthony William Nicholas Strephon Cane is the current dean of Portsmouth: he was installed on Saturday 16 March 2019. Cane was born on 25 August 1961 in Cape Town, South Africa: his English parents had emigrated the previous year. He is married, and has three adult children. He attended the Bishops Diocesan College, Cape Town and the University of Cape Town, where he read English and history. Before his ordination training at Westcott House Theological College in Cambridge (1987–90), he worked with homeless people and ex-drug addicts in central London (1982–84), and then as a Church Community worker at Chelsea Methodist Church on London’s Kings Road (1984–87).