Eric Ancrum Buchan (6 November 1907 in Clifton, BristolCoventry Telegraph Obituary – 27 April 2001 in Lingfield, SurreyThe Free Library) was Archdeacon of CoventryLambeth Palace Library from 1965New Archdeacon Of Coventry The Times (London, England), Wednesday, 28 Apr 1965; pg. 14; Issue 56307 to 1977.‘BUCHAN, Ven. Eric Ancrum’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 5 May 2013
Buchan was born in Bristol and educated at the city's grammar school. Following a commission in the RAF27 September 1927 he studied at St Chad's College, Durham and was ordained in 1934.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947-48: Oxford, OUP, 1947 p 170 After a curacy at Holy Nativity, Knowle, Bristol he became a wartime chaplain in the RAFVR.London Gazette 3 December 1940 He was Vicar of St Mark's with St Barnabas, Coventry from 1945 to 1959; Rural Dean of Coventry from 1954 to 1963; and Rector of Baginton from 1963 to 1970. He was awarded the Silver Acorn for outstanding services to the Scout Movement in 1974.
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