Ian Russell (priest)

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
  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 ISBN 0-7151-3853-7
  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. "Crockford's Clerical Directory: The Ven Harold Ian Lyle Russell". Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. Crockfords p 607 (London, Church House Publishing, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
  5. "Church Times: "Deaths", 20 August 2021".


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