Ernest Southcott

The Very Rev Ernest William Southcott (1915–1976) was an eminent Anglican priest and author in the 20th century.

He was born on 8 May 1915 and educated at the University of British Columbia. Ordained in 1938 after a period of study at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, he began his career with curacies at St John’s, Shildon and St James’s, Gateshead. He was Vicar of St Wilfrid’s, Halton, Leeds, where he pioneered the House Church movement, and then Rural Dean of Whitkirk until 1961 when he was appointed Provost of Southwark Cathedral.. He resigned Southwark in 1970 and became Vicar of Rishton in Lancashire. He died on 17 January 1976.