Ian Watson (priest)

Ian Leslie Stewart Watson (born Carlton, Nottinghamshire 17 September 1950) was Archdeacon of Coventry from 2007 until 2012.

He was an Officer in the Royal Marines from 1969 to 1979. He studied at ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and was priested in 1981. After a curacy at St Andrew, Plymouth he was Vicar of Matchborough from 1985 to 1992. He was Team Rector of Woodley, Berkshire from 1992 to 1995; the Anglican Chaplain in Amsterdam from 1995 to 2001; and Chief Executive of the Intercontinental Church Society from 2001 until his appointment as Archdeacon.

A keen cricketer, Watson is currently the Chairman of the Society for the Relief of Poor Clergy.