OBITUARY

Canon John Crozier
BORN AND EDUCATED in
Scotland, John Crozier was ordained for the diocese of Portsmouth in October 1943. After serving as assistant priest in Reading and the Channel Islands, he moved to North Hinksey on the western edge of Oxford to found a parish in 1953.
Over 16 years, he established the churches and chapels at Our Lady, North Hinksey, St Pius X, North Wooton, The Good Shepherd, Kennington, St Thomas More, Boars Hill, and, in 1961, Holy Rood, Folly Bridge.
He became parish priest at St Edmund's, Abingdon, in 1969 after which he oversaw the building of the church at Sutton Courtney. He returned to help out at North Hinksey after his retirement in 1988, and died on 6 July, aged 75.
An enthusiastic historian, he contributed the entry of St Edmund of Abingdon in the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church.