{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} ''' Nicholas Guy Coulton''' (born 14 June 1940) was Provost of Newcastle from 1990<ref>[http://library.newcastle.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_005_TitleInformation.aspx?searchTerm=L283.2+N536&searchTerm2=&searchType=4&media=3&branch=&authority=&language=&junior=&fr=tl&rcn=N000147721 Newcastle Libraries]</ref> to August 2001 and then,<ref>{{Church Times | title = Appointments | archive = 2001_08_17_006 | issue = 7226 | date = 17 August 2001 | pages = 6 | accessed = 31 December 2014 }}</ref> when the office title changed, its Dean until 2003.

Coulton was born on 14 June 1940,<ref name="Who's Who">{{cite book |title=Coulton, Very Rev. Canon Nicholas Guy |url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540884.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-12022 |publisher=Who's Who 2021 |access-date=13 December 2021 |date=1 December 2021|doi = 10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U12022|isbn = 978-0-19-954088-4}}</ref> educated at Blundell's School, and qualified as a solicitor in 1962. He was ordained after a period of study at Ripon College Cuddesdon in 1967.<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory'' 1975-76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> He was curate of Pershore Abbey until 1971 when he became domestic chaplain to the Bishop of St Albans.<ref name="Who's Who"/> In 1975 he became Vicar of St Paul’s Bedford,<ref>[http://www.stpaulschurchbedford.org.uk/ Church website]</ref> a post he held until his appointment at Newcastle.

From 2003 to 2008 he was a residentiary canon at Christ Church, Oxford.

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