Ian Harland (19 December 1932 – 27 December 2008) was a

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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

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in Oxford and Haileybury. He then went to university at Peterhouse, Cambridge, taking a law degree. After two years as a

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he studied for the priesthood at

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and began his ministry as a curate in

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in 1960. He was subsequently

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of three parishes in the

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- Oughtibridge (1963–72), St Cuthbert at Fir Vale and Brightside (1972–75), then

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(1975–79). In the last two posts he also served as

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and Archdeacon of

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, 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

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as Bishop Suffragan of Lancaster in 1985, again under Cross (appointed Bishop of Blackburn from 1982).

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to Carlisle four years later and entering the

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in 1996 (where he was part of the pro-fox hunting Middle Way Group), he retired in 2000 to live in

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(near

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). In retirement he continued working as an

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within the

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and in chaplaincy work in the

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, alongside being an active trustee of the Settle and Carlisle Railway Trust, until his death late in December 2008. His memorial service, conducted by the

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took place on 8 February 2009 in

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. Daily Telegraph p 26 Issue no 47,801 (dated Monday 9 February 2009)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harland, Ian 1919 births People educated at The Dragon School People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College Alumni of Peterhouse, Cambridge Archdeacons of Doncaster 20th-century Church of England bishops Anglican bishops of Lancaster 2008 deaths