Richard Watson (bishop of Burnley)

Richard Charles Challinor Watson was the seventh Bishop of Burnley from 1970^[1] to 1988. Born on 16 February 1923, he was educated at Rugby and New College, Oxford^[2] 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^[3];Chaplain of Wadham College, Oxford ; Vicar of Hornchurch^[4]; and finally, before his elevation to the Episcopate, Rural Dean of Havering. He retired to Thame in 1998 and died on  on  1 March 1998.

Notes

^ Induction details
^ Who's Who 1970 London, A & C Black, 1971 ISBN 0713611405
^ During which time he married Anna Chevasse, elder daughter of the then Bishop of Rochester- The Times, Monday, Dec 12, 1955; pg. 10; Issue 53401; col B Marriages
^ Crockford's clerical directory1975-76 Lambeth, Church House ISBN 0108153674

Church of England titles
Preceded by George Edward Holderness	Bishop of Burnley 1970 – 1988	Succeeded by Ronald James Milner

Bishops of Burnley

Edwyn Hoskyns • Alfred Pearson • Henry Henn • Edgar Priestley Swain • Keith Prosser • George Holderness • Richard Watson • Ronald Milner • Martyn Jarrett • John Goddard

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Name	Watson, Richard Charles Challinor
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Date of birth	1923
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Date of death	1998
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