Richard Neil Inwood (4 March 1946 - 14 April 2019) was a Bishop suffragan of Bedford.
[5] He was consecrated a bishop by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury at Southwark Cathedral on 7 March 2003.
[6] As acting bishop, Inwood attracted media attention in June 2014 for revoking the permission to officiate of a gay priest, Jeremy Pemberton, who had legally married his partner in spite of a pastoral statement issued by the church's bishops.
[7] In August 2014, Pemberton had an offer of employment at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust withdrawn following Inwood's refusal to grant the necessary license.
[8] Inwood was the co-author of Moved by Steam: Beside the tracks and on the trains 1962-67 with Mike Smith (Kettering, 2009 ISBN 978-1-85794-323-8).