Sidney Nowell Rostron (10 August 1883 – 17 March 1948) was a Church of England priest, theologian, and academic.
[1] Having won a scholarship as the Sizer Exhibitioner, he matriculated into St John's College, Cambridge in 1903 to study the Theological Tripos.
[1] Nowell Rostron was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1906 and as a priest in 1907; both times by Edmund Knox, the then Bishop of Manchester.
[3] Nowell Rostron temporarily left his parish post to serve as a military chaplain during World War I.
[4] In 1928 or 1930, he joined the London College of Divinity as Whitehead Professor of Pastoralia; he held this academic position in addition to his parish ministry.
[4] In August 1941, he was appointed Vicar of St Stephen's Church, Lansdown in Bath, Somerset, and he left London to take up the post in the October.
[1] Nowell Rostron was married to Ellen Vivian (née Davies) who was from Port Elizabeth, South Africa.