[1] After studying at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he worked at Ford Motor Company from 1978 to 1981.
[1] In 1981, he entered St Stephen's House, Oxford to study theology and train for ordination.
[2] From 1984 to 1987, he served his curacy at St Andrew with Holy Trinity, Halstead in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
He was priest in charge of St Botolph's Church, Boston, from 1995 to 1997, and then vicar of the parish from 1997 to 2003.
[3] In November 2017 he was nominated as the dean of Peterborough,[4] and he was duly installed there on 20 January 2018.