My father, Nigel Lemon, who has died aged 83, was a lay preacher in the United Reformed Church and a senior lecturer in theology at Chester College of Higher Education, which is now part of the University of Chester.
Nigel preached in all the places that he lived, and once he had settled down permanently in Chester he served villages around West Cheshire and into Wales as a local pastor. In 1978 he was ordained, serving as the minister of Lavister and Trevalyn chapels near Wrexham.
