Canon Keith Weston - Telegraph Wherever he served, Weston offered careful and lively bible teaching, always applied to contemporary life. Over the years he was deeply involved in the work of the annual Keswick Bible Convention, which draws thousands to its summer gatherings in the Lake District; he was its chairman from 1994 to 1997, travelling to expound the Scriptures at sister conventions in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Australia. While he loved the inter-denominational work of Keswick and the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF), Weston remained committed to the Anglican Church, drawn to its pattern of ordered worship, liturgical richness, and its commitment to the public reading and teaching of Scripture. Although it was not commonplace in his day, he always welcomed people of any Christian denomination to receive Holy Communion, and appointed women to positions of leadership. He also encouraged students to consider many forms of lay ministry, as well as vocations to the ordained ministry. Weston served as rural dean of Oxford from 1971 to 1976; as a canon of Christ Church Cathedral from 1981 to 1985; and, for 10 years in the Seventies and Eighties, as a member of the General Synod. He sat on the Synod's Dioceses Commission . He became one of the best-loved speakers in university Christian Unions, travelling hundreds of miles to speak at campus meetings regardless of other pressures. He was a trustee of the UCCF, whose students elected him president in 1987-88. In 1985 Weston was invited to become diocesan director of ordinands and post-ordination training for Norwich diocese, where he worked alongside his friends Maurice Wood, Bishop of Norwich, and Timothy Dudley-Smith, Bishop of Thetford. During this period he also served as vicar of St Stephen's, Norwich. After retiring to Thame in 1991, Weston continued to preach, in St Mary's, Thame, in its surrounding parishes, and also abroad. This passion never abated, and after nearly 60 years of ministry he preached for the final time just four months before he died. He is survived by his wife Margaret, whom he married in 1954, and by his two sons and two daughters. Canon Keith Weston, born July 30 1926, died February 5 2013