John Methuen (priest)

John Alan Robert Methuen (14 August 1947 – 18 July 2010[1]) was an Anglican priest.

[2][3] He was ordained in 1972 and was a curate at Fenny Stratford, after which he was appointed chaplain of Eton College.

[4] He was subsequently vicar of St Mark's Reading[5] then rector of The Ascension, Hulme.

[6] While in Hulme he sheltered asylum seeker Viraj Mendis for over two years (December 1986 to January 1989).

His funeral service was held at Saint Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, London.