David Banfield (priest)

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David John Banfield (25 June 1933 – 2 October 2014) was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1990 until 1998.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=002-41138&cid=14-5#14-5 |title=National Archives |access-date=9 September 2013 |archive-date=16 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416183346/http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/9f21bc08-4522-4f52-971e-989e10a22c02#14-5 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|title=David John Banfield 1933-2014|url=http://www.bristol.anglican.org/2014/david-john-banfield/|publisher=Diocese of Bristol|accessdate=18 September 2015}}

Banfield was educated at Yeovil School‘BANFIELD, Ven. David John’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U6375, accessed 9 Sept 2013] and the London College of Divinity. He was ordained deacon in 1957 and priest in 1958 .Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60 Oxford, OUP, 1999 p51 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.