Paris Leary (1931–2005)

Poet and educator, Paris Leary was born in Shreveport in 1931. He was educated at Centenary College, Seabury-Western Theological College, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois., St. Augustine's College and Canterbury and Oxford Universities. He taught at the University of Kentucky, Bard College (New York), and the University of Leicester in England. Dr. Leary is the author of several books of poetry, a novel, The Innocent Curate, and The Jack Sprat Cookbook.

Leary died unmarried in 2005, having converted to Orthodoxy in his retirement, and was buried from the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Aidan and St. Chad in Nottingham. In Orthodoxy, he took the name Tikhon in honor of St. Tikhon of Moscow, pioneer of Anglican-Orthodox relations in the early 20th century.