James Watton
Male, Person
1915 –
Who is James Watton?
James Augustus Watton was a Canadian Anglican bishop in the second half of the 20th century.
Watton was born on 23 October 1915, educated at the University of Western Ontario and ordained in 1939. He held curacies at Lucknow, Ontario and Merlin after which he was the incumbent of Plympton–Wyoming. After time at Geraldton, Kirkland Lake and Timmins he became Dean of Moosonee in 1955. In 1957 he became Rector of St John's Port Hope and in 1958 of St Michael and All Angels, Toronto. In 1963 he became the Bishop of Moosonee, a position he held until 1979, for the last five years of which he was also Metropolitan of Ontario. He died on 14 August 1995.
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