David Charles Bailey (born Shipley, 5 December 1952) was Archdeacon of Bolton from 2008 until 2018.[1]
He was educated at Bradford Grammar School and Lincoln College, Oxford and ordained in 1981.[2] After curacies in Worksop and Edgware he was the incumbent at Ellerker from 1987 to 1997; Rural Dean of Howden from 1991 to 1997; the incumbent at Beverley Minster from 1997 to 2008, and a Canon and Prebendary of York Minster from 1998 to 2008[3]
He is a director of the Simeon Trustees, a trust established in the nineteenth century by Charles Simeon to purchase advowsons for Anglican ministers aligned with the Evangelical Anglicanism.[4]