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
edit- ^ Coventry Telegraph Obituary
- ^ The Free Library
- ^ Lambeth Palace Library
- ^ New Archdeacon Of Coventry The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 28 Apr 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
- ^ "The Venerable Eric Buchan". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 28 February 2016.
