[2] Graham was educated at Tonbridge School and St John's College, Oxford.
[6] His first post was as a curate at Hove from where he moved to be a lecturer at Worcester College, Oxford.
After time as warden of Lincoln Theological College he was appointed the Bishop of Bedford in 1977.
[7] He was consecrated a bishop on 31 March 1977, by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury at Westminster Abbey.
[8] With his nomination on 21 May and confirmation on 29 June 1981, he was translated to Bishop of Newcastle[9] where he stayed for sixteen years.