Andy Radford

Andrew John "Andy" Radford[1][2] 26 January 1944 – 21 May 2006)[3] was an Anglican Evangelical bishop and religious broadcaster.

[4] Radford was born at Hengrove, where his father was curate; they later lived in Kingswood, Bristol, where his father, John (later a canon),[5] was Vicar, and Andy attended Kingswood Grammar School.

Subsequently Vicar of St Barnabas with Englishcombe, Bath, Somerset (1980–1985), then Diocese of Gloucester Communications Officer (1985–1993) and an honorary canon of Gloucester Cathedral (1991–1998), then Development and Training Officer at the national Communications Unit, Church House, Westminster (1993–1998).

[3] He was ordained and consecrated a bishop on 3 December 1998,[9] by George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.

[10] He died of brain cancer in Gloucester and was survived by Christine née Davis, whom he had married in 1969, and their two daughters and two grandchildren.