Ian Russell (priest)
Appearance
Harold Ian Lyle Russell (17 October 1934 – 9 August 2021) was an English Anglican priest who was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1989 to 2000 and an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1997 to 2004.[1] [2]
Russell was educated at Epsom College. He worked for Shell from 1951 to 1953; and was in the RAF Regiment from 1953 to 1956. He studied for ordination at the London College of Divinity, and was ordained deacon in 1960 and priest in 1961.[3] After curacies in Iver (1960–63) and Lodge Moor (1963–67) he was Vicar of St John, Chapeltown, South Yorkshire (1967–75) then St Jude, Mapperley (1975–89).[4]
He died in 2021, aged 86.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Working with the Spirit: Choosing Diocesan Bishops : a Review of the Operation of the Crown Appointments Commission and Related Matters" London, Church House Publishing, 2001 ISBN 0-7151-3853-7
- ^ ‘RUSSELL, Ven. (Harold) Ian (Lyle)’, 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
- ^ "Crockford's Clerical Directory: The Ven Harold Ian Lyle Russell". Retrieved 21 August 2021.
- ^ Crockfords p 607 (London, Church House Publishing, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
- ^ "Church Times: "Deaths", 20 August 2021".