Honorific-Prefix: | The Rt Revd |
David Farmbrough | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MA(Oxon) |
Bishop of Bedford | |
Diocese: | Diocese of St Albans |
Term: | 1981–93 |
Predecessor: | Andrew Graham |
Successor: | John Richardson |
Other Post: | Honorary assistant bishop in St Albans (1994–present) Archdeacon of St Albans (1974–81) |
Ordination: | 1953 (deacon); 1954 (priest) |
Consecration: | 1981 |
Birth Date: | 1929 5, df=yes |
Death Place: | Bromham, Bedfordshire |
Religion: | Anglican |
Parents: | Charles and Ida |
Spouse: | Angela Hill (m. 1955) |
Profession: | Writer |
Alma Mater: | Lincoln College, Oxford |
David John Farmbrough (4 May 1929 – 9 March 2013)[1] was Bishop of Bedford from 1981 to 1993.[2]
Farmbrough was educated at Bedford School and Lincoln College, Oxford before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Bishop's Hatfield, after which he was priest in charge of St John's Church in the same parish.[3]
Following this he was Vicar of Bishop's Stortford. Later he became Rural Dean of the area and then (his final appointment before ordination to the episcopate[4]) Archdeacon of St Albans (1974–1981). In retirement he served the Diocese of St Albans as an assistant bishop.