Richard Watson (bishop of Burnley), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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(1923-1998) British bishop
Date of Birth: 16-Feb-1923
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1998
Profession: cleric
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
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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