David Charles Brindley AKC (born 11 June 1953, Wednesbury, West Midlands)[1] is a retired Church of England priest and the most recent Dean of Portsmouth.
[2] Brindley was educated at Wednesfield Grammar School and at King's College London.
[1] After VSO in Lebanon he studied for the priesthood at St Augustine's College, Canterbury and was ordained in 1977.
He was a curate at Epping and then a lecturer at the College of St. Paul and St. Mary, Cheltenham.
[3] After this he was Vicar of Quorn from 1982-86, and then Principal of the West of England Ministerial Training Course until becoming Team Rector of Warwick, a post he held until his current appointment.