BUCKLEY. — On 23 May, the Revd Ernest Fairbank Buckley: Vicar of Hey (1958-64); Brooklands (1964-79); Clun with Chapel Lawn, Bettws-y-Crwyn and Newcastle (1979-87); Rural Dean of Clun Forest (1982-87); aged 99.
CHARD. — On 21 July, the Revd Reginald Jeffrey Chard: Vicar of Hirwaun (1971-74); Hon. Assistant Curate of Stechford (1974-78); Team Vicar in the Banbury Team Ministry (1978-86); Industrial Chaplain (1986-2009); Priest-in-Charge of Claydon with Mollington (1986-96); Rector of Ironstone (1996-2009); aged 83.
DUDLEY-SMITH. — On 12 August, the Rt Revd Timothy Dudley-Smith: Head of Cambridge University Mission, Bermondsey (1953-55); Hon. Chaplain to the Bishop of Rochester (1953-60); Education Secretary of the Evangelical Alliance (1955-59); Assistant Secretary of the Church Pastoral Aid Society (1959-65); Secretary (1965-73); Archdeacon of Norwich (1973-81); Suffragan Bishop of Thetford (1981-91); aged 97.
HARPER. — On 29 July, the Revd Dr Joseph Frank Harper: Assistant Curate of St Mary’s, Lancaster (1983-87); Vicar of St Aidan’s, Bamber Bridge (1987-92): Kinsley with Wragby (1992-99); Rector of Newhaven (1999-2004); aged 86.
HICKLING. — On 31 July, the Revd John Hickling: Assistant Curate in the Melton Mowbray Team Ministry (1969-71); Team Vicar (1971-75); Rector of Waltham-on-the-Wolds with Stonesby and Saltby (1975-84); Rector of St Andrew with St James, Aylestone (1984-93); Husbands Bosworth with Mowsley and Knaptoft and Theddingworth (1993-96); aged 90.
HOWE. — On 11 August, the Very Revd Rex Alan Howe: Vicar of St Martin’s, Middlesbrough (1960-67); Redcar (1967-73); Kirkleatham (1967-73); Rural Dean of Guisborough (1967-73); Dean of Hong Kong (1973-76); Archdeacon of Hong Kong (1975-76); Team Rector in the Grantham Team Ministry (1977-85); Rural Dean of Grantham (1978-85); Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln Cathedral (1981-85); Vicar of Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks (1985-94); Rural Dean of Poole (1992-94); aged 95.
JORDAN. — On 18 June, the Revd Anthony John Jordan: NSM of Uppingham with Ayston and Wardley with Belton (1983-86); Assistant Chaplain of Uppingham School (1983-86); Sherborne School (1986-87); NSM of St Francis’s, Bournemouth (1988-2003); St Aidan’s, Leicester (2006-08); Vicar of Eyres Monsell (2008-13); aged 74.
PANTON. — On 27 July, the Revd Alan Edward Panton: Vicar of St Mary’s, Dallington (1978-2007); aged 79.
SAVILLE. — On 31 July, the Revd Edward Andrew Saville: Vicar of Brierfield (1995-2009); Priest-in-Charge (2009-10); Hon. Assistant Curate (2010-13); Area Dean of Pendle (1998-2005); Lead Officer of the Blackburn Diocesan Board for Social Responsibility (2009-19); Hon. Canon of Blackburn Cathedral (2011-19); Area Dean of Pendle (2013-18); aged 77.
WALKER. — On 8 July, the Revd Nigel Maynard Walker: Rector of Christ Church, Addington, Durban (1970-73); Rector (1973-76); Assistant Curate of Abingdon, in charge of Christ Church (1976-80); Vicar of Overchurch (Upton) (1980-94); Chaplain in Brussels, and Chancellor of Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral, Brussels (1994-2004); Priest-in-Charge in Leuven (2002-04); aged 85.
WATERMAN. — On 23 July, the Revd Albert Thomas Waterman: Vicar of St John the Evangelist, Ilkeston (1967-75); St Francis’s, Mackworth (1975-79); St Alban’s, Dartford (1979-98); Rural Dean of Dartford (1984-97); Hon. Canon of Rochester Cathedral (1996-98); aged 91.