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Alan Smithson (1 December 1936–17 June 2010 Edinburgh United Kingdom) was Bishop of Jarrow from 1990 to 2001.He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Queen’s College Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Christ Church Skipton after which he was Chaplain at his old college. Following this he was Vicar of Bracknell and later a Canon Residentiary at Carlisle Cathedral before being elevated to the Episcopate.