David Thomson Cleric
David Thomson FSA FRHist (born 2 February 1952) is the Bishop of Huntingdon and has been, since 20 October 2013, Acting Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich.He was educated at King Edward VII School (Sheffield), followed by Keble College, Oxford, where he was awarded an MA and DPhil (in 1978), and Westcott House and Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he read Theology. Ordained in 1982 he began his career with a curacy at Maltby and was then successively Team Vicar of Banbury, Rector of Cockermouth and finally (before ascending to the Episcopate) Archdeacon of Carlisle.Thomson was consecrated as bishop in Southwark Cathedral on 3 July 2008 and installed as Bishop of Huntingdon in Ely Cathedral on 17 October that year.A medieval historian, he is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Historical Society as well as an FRSA; his academic works include “A Descriptive Catalogue of Middle English Grammatical Texts”, 1979 and “An Edition of the Middle English Grammatical Texts”, 1984—, and his latest work has been on the Bewcastle Cross. He has also published a series of devotional books, A Journey with John, Lent with Luke, Christmas by Candelight and Ways to Pray.He is married with two sons and two daughters, and his interests include detective fiction, crosswords, gardening, photography and fine art.
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