Eric Buchan
Eric Ancrum Buchan (6 November 1907 in Clifton, Bristol [1] – 27 April 2001 in Lingfield, Surrey[2]) was Archdeacon of Coventry[3] from 1965[4] to 1977.[5]
Buchan was born in Bristol and educated at the city’s grammar school. Following a commission in the RAF [6] he studied at St Chad's College, Durham and was ordained in 1934.[7] After a curacy at Holy Nativity, Knowle, Bristol he became a wartime chaplain in the RAFVR.[8] He was Vicar of St Mark’s with St Barnabas, Coventry from 1945 to 1959;[9] Rural Dean of Coventry from 1954 to 1963; and Rector of Baginton from 1963 to 1970. He was awarded the Silver Acorn for outstanding services to the Scout Movement in 1974.
References
- ↑ Coventry Telegraph Obituary
- ↑ The Free Library
- ↑ Lambeth Palace Library
- ↑ New Archdeacon Of Coventry The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Apr 28, 1965; pg. 14; Issue 56307
- ↑ ‘BUCHAN, Ven. Eric Ancrum’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 5 May 2013
- ↑ 27 September 1927
- ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48: Oxford, OUP, 1947 p 170
- ↑ London Gazette 3 December 1940
- ↑ Daily Telegraph Obituary
| Church of England titles | ||
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| Preceded by Leonard John Stanford |
Archdeacon of Coventry 1965–1977 |
Succeeded by Peter Sydney Godfrey Bridges |
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