About Eric Buchan
Lived 1907 – 2001 (aged 93). Eric Buchan was an anglican priest.
Eric Ancrum Buchan (6 November 1907 in Clifton, Bristol – 27 April 2001 in Lingfield, Surrey ) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 1965 to 1977.
Buchan was born in Bristol and educated at the city's grammar school. Following a commission in the RAF he studied at St Chad's College, Durham and was ordained in 1934. After a curacy at Holy Nativity, Knowle, Bristol he became a wartime chaplain in the RAFVR. 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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