David Urquhart

David Andrew Urquhart (born 14 April 1952) is a retired Scottish bishop. He served as the ninth Bishop of Birmingham in the Church of England. Early life Urquhart was educated at Croftinloan School, a private school near Pitlochry, and at Rugby School, then an all-boys public school. His first career was in commercial management with British Petroleum before studying at Ealing Technical College Business School where he received a Bachelor of Arts business studies in 1977. From 1982 to 1984, he trained for the ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, an evangelical Anglican theological college. Church career Urquhart was ordained a deacon at Petertide on 1 July 1984 by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, at York Minster. He became a priest the next year, and served in Hull before becoming the vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry in 1992. For his last year in Coventry, he was an honorary canon of the cathedral.