Richard Watson (bishop of Burnley), Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Richard Watson (bishop of Burnley)

(1923-1998) British bishop

Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1923

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1998

Profession: cleric

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Richard Watson (bishop of Burnley)

  • Richard Charles Challinor Watson was the seventh Bishop of Burnley from 1970 to 1988.
  • Born on 16 February 1923, he was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford and studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge before a curacy in Stratford, London .
  • After that he was successively: a tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford;Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford ; Vicar of Hornchurch; and finally, before his ordinaton to the episcopate, Rural Dean of Havering.
  • He retired to Thame in 1988 and died on 1 March 1998.

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