John Watts Ditchfield

John Edwin Watts-Ditchfield (17 September 1861 – 14 July 1923) was an eminent 20th century Anglican priest and distinguished author.

Educated at the Victoria University of Manchester and ordained in 1891, he began his career with a Curacy at St Peter Highgate after which he was Vicar of St James-the-Less, Bethnal Green. Following this he was a Lecturer in Pastoral Theology at Cambridge University until his appointment to the episcopate as the inaugural Bishop of Chelmsford, dying in post. There is a statue to him within Chelmsford Cathedral. He had become a Doctor of Divinity (DD).