{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use Australian English|date=December 2013}} {{Infobox person | image = <!-- Only freely-licensed images may be used to depict living people. See WP:NONFREE. --> | image_size = 150px | | name = The Reverend Ian Bowe Tanner | birth_date = {{Birth date|1926|02|24|df=y}}<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91604525 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=27 February 1926 |accessdate=31 December 2013 |page=1 |edition=DAILY |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> | birth_place = Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | death_date = {{Death date and age|2013|12|27|1926|02|26|df=y}} | death_place = Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia | occupation = Uniting Church in Australia and Presbyterian Church of Australia minister | parents = Thomas Alexander Tanner | spouse = Joan | relatives = | children = Andrew Tanner }}
'''Ian Bowe Tanner''' {{postnominals|country=AUS|CMG}} (24 February 1926 – 27 December 2013)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://assembly.uca.org.au/news/item/1483-uniting-church-mourns-passing-of-rev-ian-tanner |title=Uniting Church Mourns Passing of Rev. Ian Tanner |publisher=Uniting Church in Australia |date=6 January 2014 |accessdate=8 May 2019 |archive-date=8 May 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508062649/https://assembly.uca.org.au/news/item/1483-uniting-church-mourns-passing-of-rev-ian-tanner |url-status=dead }}</ref> was an Australian Presbyterian and Uniting Church minister. He was President of the Uniting Church's Assembly between 1985 and 1988.
==Education== Tanner was educated at Trevallyn State School, Launceston Technical College and the University of Tasmania, where he resided at Christ College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52717089 |title=DEGREES CONFERRED RECORD FOR UNIVERSITY. |newspaper=The Examiner |location=Launceston, Tasmania |date=10 May 1950 |accessdate=1 January 2014 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> He later obtained a Diploma of Education from the University of Adelaide and studied theology at Ormond College Theological Hall.<ref name="CT2">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article137174183 |title=New minister plans to take the church back to the community. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=19 August 1992 |accessdate=1 January 2014 |page=40 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Career== He served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 21 April 1944 to 22 August 1945 as a Leading Aircraftman,<ref>[http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=R&VeteranId=1028996 WW2 Nominal Roll entry for Ian Bowe Tanner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233648/http://www.ww2roll.gov.au/Veteran.aspx?ServiceId=R&VeteranId=1028996 |date=3 March 2016 }} accessed 1 January 2014</ref> and prior to training for the Presbyterian ministry worked as an Industrial Chemist at Patons and Baldwins in Launceston from 1950 to 1955.<ref name="CT_ind">{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126932253 |title=OFFERINGS Canadians to give mission seminar. |newspaper=The Canberra Times |date=1 July 1992 |accessdate=1 January 2014 |page=26 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was ordained in 1959,<ref name="CT2"/><ref name="CT_ind"/> and subsequently ministered at: *Prahran Presbyterian Church, 1956–1958<ref name="CT2"/> *North Box Hill Presbyterian Church, 1959–1963<ref name="CT2"/> *Scots Church, Adelaide: as associate minister (from 1963) and collegiate minister (1965–1980)<ref name="CT2"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://scotschurch.org/our-history.html |title=Scots Church Adelaide, Our history |access-date=1 January 2014 |archive-date=21 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621090528/http://scotschurch.org/our-history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Director of Lay Education (South Australia) (from 1980)<ref name="CT2"/> *President of the Assembly (1985–1988) *Mission Director (South Australia)<ref name="CT2"/> *Wesley Church, Canberra (1992<ref name="CT_ind"/>-1996)
He was the first Moderator of the UCA Synod of South Australia from 1977 to 1979.
He retired in 1996.
==Family== He was the son of Thomas Alexander Tanner (-1947).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article26414006 |title=Family Notices. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tasmania |date=1 August 1947 |accessdate=31 December 2013 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
His son Andrew Tanner was a member of the band Seven Stories.
==Publications== Among his publications is a 2002 biography of Beryl Grant AO, OBE, FRCNA.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Tanner, Ian B. (Ian Bowe) | title=Beryl's world : the multi-faceted life of Beryl Grant AO, OBE, FRCNA | publication-date=2002 | publisher=Verwood Press | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36746406 | accessdate=1 January 2014}}</ref>
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