David Peter Wilcox (born 29 June 1930) is a retired British Anglican bishop.
[1] Wilcox was educated at Northampton Grammar School and St John's College, Oxford.
[2] Ordained a deacon on Trinity Sunday (13 June) 1954 by Bertram Simpson, Bishop of Southwark, in Southwark Cathedral[3] and a priest the following year, he began his career with a curacy at St Helier, St Peter (Bishop Andrewes Church)[4] Hammersmith[5] in the Southwark Diocese and was then successively:[6] a lecturer at Lincoln Theological College; a USPG missionary in Bangalore; vicar of Great Gransden; and canon residentiary of Derby Cathedral.
[7] He was ordained and consecrated a bishop (thereby taking up his suffragan See) on 30 January 1986, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Southwark Cathedral.
Wilcox was criticised in 2007 for having failed to inform police of a case of child abuse involving a church choirmaster in 1990.