John Davies (priest)
The Very Rev John Harverd Davies[1] has been Dean of Derby since 2010.[2]
He was born in Bolton on 29 November 1957; educated at Brentwood School, Keble College, Oxford and Westcott House, Cambridge; and ordained in 1985.[3] After curacies at Our Lady and St Nicholas with St Anne, Liverpool and St John the Baptist, Peterborough he was Vicar of St Margaret, Anfield then Chaplain, Fellow and Lecturer at his old college. He was Vicar of St Michael with St Mary's Church, Melbourne from 1999 until his appointment as Dean.[4]
In 2012 Dr Davies undertook a sponsored abseil from the tower of Derby Cathedral in order to raise funds, both for the Cathedral and for the Padley Centre, a local charity providing help and support to the homeless and other socially disadvantaged people. [5] [6]
References
- ↑ Endole
- ↑ Cathedral web-site
- ↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0-7151-8088-6
- ↑ ‘DAVIES, Very Rev. Dr John Harverd’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, Oct 2014 accessed 13 Dec 2014
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