Ian Russell (priest) explained

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]

Notes and References

1. "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
2. ‘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
3. Web site: Crockford's Clerical Directory: The Ven Harold Ian Lyle Russell. 21 August 2021.
4. [Crockford's clerical directory|Crockfords]
5. Web site: Church Times: "Deaths", 20 August 2021.