John Scott Gaisford[1] (born 7 October 1934) is a British retired Anglican bishop.
He was the second Bishop of Beverley,[2] the first appointed to be a provincial episcopal visitor ("flying bishop") for the Province of York when the Church of England began ordaining women as priests.
Gaisford was educated at Durham University, made a deacon at Michaelmas 1960 (25 September)[3] and ordained a priest the Michaelmas following (24 September 1961) — both times by William Greer, Bishop of Manchester, at Manchester Cathedral —[4] and began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Hilda's Audenshaw.
Following this he was curate at St Michael and All Angels in Bramhall, Cheshire until 1965 when he became vicar of St Andrew's Crewe and was Rural Dean of Nantwich from 1974 until 1985 [6] and then Archdeacon of Macclesfield until 1994.
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