Ian Harland
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Ian Harland (19 December 1932 – 27 December 2008Daily Telegraph Obituary p 27 Issue no 47,772 (dated Tuesday, 6 January 2009)) was a Church of England cleric, serving as Anglican Bishop of Lancaster then Bishop of Carlisle.
Life
From a clerical family (Samuel Harland, general secretary of the Commonwealth and Continental Church Society, was his father), Harland was educated at The Dragon School in Oxford and Haileybury. He then went to university at Peterhouse, Cambridge, taking a law degree.The Times, Tuesday, 13 December 1955; pg. 10; Issue 53402; col B Court Circular- President of Cambridge University Conservative Association After two years as a schoolmaster at Sunningdale School he studied for the priesthood at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and began his ministry as a curate in Melton Mowbray in 1960.
He was subsequently Vicar of three parishes in the diocese of Sheffield - Oughtibridge (1963–72), St Cuthbert at Fir Vale and Brightside (1972–75), then Rotherham (1975–79).[http://www.stcuthberts.net/page6.html Church web-site]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In the last two posts he also served as Rural Dean of Ecclesfield and Archdeacon of Doncaster,Debrett's People of Today: 1992, London, Debrett's) {{ISBN|1-870520-09-2}} and in 1967 he married Susan Hinman, with whom he had one son and three daughters. From 1979 to 1982 he served as Archdeacon of Doncaster (working closely with the bishop Stewart Cross) and chairman of that diocese's Youth Committee, arranging a youth pilgrimage to Iona.
He was elevated to the episcopate as Bishop Suffragan of Lancaster in 1985, again under Cross (appointed Bishop of Blackburn from 1982). Translated to Carlisle four years later Official Appointments and Notices - Bishops appointed The Times Wednesday 30 January 1985; pg. 14; Issue 62049; col B and entering the House of Lords in 1996 (where he was part of the pro-fox hunting Middle Way Group{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5548485.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629104748/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5548485.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 June 2011|title=Obituary|date=20 January 2009|work=The Times | location=London}}), he retired in 2000 to live in Gargrave (near Skipton, North Yorkshire). In retirement he continued working as an honorary assistant bishop within the Diocese of Bradford and in chaplaincy work in the Diocese of Europe, alongside being an active trustee of the Settle and Carlisle Railway Trust,Crockford's Clerical Directory2008/2009 Lambeth, Church House Publishing {{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}} until his death late in December 2008.[http://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/latest-york-and-humberside-news/Former-city-bishop-dies-at.4825542.jp Former city bishop dies at hospice]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, Wakefield Express, retrieved 28 December 2008. His memorial service, conducted by the Dean of Carlisle took place on 8 February 2009 in Carlisle Cathedral.Daily Telegraph p 26 Issue no 47,801 (dated Monday 9 February 2009)
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Category:People educated at The Dragon School
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Category:Archdeacons of Doncaster
Category:20th-century Church of England bishops