Eric Buchan Explained

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.

Notes and References

1. http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2001/05/03/former-archdeacon-dies-92746-11042392/ Coventry Telegraph Obituary
2. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tribute+to+cleric+with+flair+for+fund-raising%3B+Award-winning+former...-a074082106 The Free Library
3. http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27Ramsey%2F4-287%2F1964%2F70%2F162,%20164%27) Lambeth Palace Library
4. New Archdeacon Of Coventry The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 28 Apr 1965; pg. 14; Issue 56307
5. ‘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
6. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/33315/pages/6128/page.pdf 27 September 1927
7. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
8. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35005/pages/6872/page.pdf London Gazette 3 December 1940
9. Web site: The Venerable Eric Buchan . . https://web.archive.org/web/20160228074557/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1329574/The-Venerable-Eric-Buchan.html . 28 February 2016 . live .