Ian Watson (priest)

Ian Leslie Stewart Watson (born Carlton, Nottinghamshire 17 September 1950) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 2007 until 2012.[1]

He was an Officer in the Royal Marines[2] from 1969 to 1979. He studied at ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and was priested in 1981.[3] After a curacy at St Andrew, Plymouth he was Vicar of Matchborough from 1985 to 1992. He was Team Rector of Woodley, Berkshire from 1992 to 1995; the Anglican Chaplain in Amsterdam from 1995 to 2001; and Chief Executive of the Intercontinental Church Society from 2001 until his appointment as Archdeacon.[4]

A keen cricketer,[5] Watson is currently the Chairman of the Society for the Relief of Poor Clergy.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Coventry Cathedral
  2. ↑ Coventry News
  3. ↑ Crockfords p 734 (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  4. ↑ ‘WATSON, Ven. Ian Leslie Stewart’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, November 2016 accessed 20 January 2017
  5. ↑ Cricket Archive
  6. ↑ LinkedIn
Church of England titles
Preceded by
Mark Watts Bryant		 Archdeacon of Coventry
2007–2012		 Succeeded by
John Green



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