David George Galliford (20 June 1925 – 13 October 2021) was an English Anglican Suffragan Bishop who served in two sees in Manchester diocese between 1975 and 1991.
Educated at Bede College and Clare College, Cambridge[1] Galliford studied for ordination at Westcott House, Cambridge before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St John Newland, Hull.
[2] A Minor Canon at St George's, Windsor, from 1954 until 1956,[3] he subsequently served as Vicar of Newton under Roseberry and Rector of Bolton Percy.
He also served locally for several years as the Provincial Grand Chaplain for the Masonic province of Yorkshire (North & East Ridings).
[8] He served as an honorary assistant priest at the parish Church of St Hilda, Ellerburn, near Pickering,[9] a church famously plagued by bat infestation, which reportedly caused the bishop and his wife health issues.