David Banfield (priest)

David John Banfield (25 June 1933 – 2 October 2014) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1990 until 1998.^[1][2]

Banfield was educated at Yeovil School^[3] and the London College of Divinity. He was ordained deacon in 1957 and priest in 1958 .^[4] After a curacy in Middleton, Greater Manchester he was the Chaplain of Scargill House from 1962 to 1967. He was Vicar of Addiscombe; then Luton before his Archdeacon’s appointment.