Michael Houghton (bishop)

Michael Alan Houghton was Bishop of Ebbsfleet from 1998 to 1999.

Houghton was born on 14 June 1949. He was educated at the University of Lancaster and subsequently Durham University (1970–71), where he undertook a PGCE. He worked for British Rail and as a teacher before studying for the priesthood.

He was a curate at All Hallows' Wellingborough  followed by a period overseas as the parish priest of Jamestown, Saint Helena. From 1984 to 1989 he was a tutor at the College of the Ascension, Selly Oak then became the Vicar of St Peter's Folkestone until his ordination to the episcopate as the second Bishop of Ebbsfleet. He died in office following a heart attack on 18 December 1999, six months after his 50th birthday.