A former Teacher, Hospital Chaplain, Prison Chaplain, Grammar and 
   Secondary Schools Chaplain, he was also a Chaplain to the Royal Air 
   Force serving in the Gulf during the Gulf War.

   For over thirty years he has been the Editor of the Benedictine 
   Yearbook, a Directory of all the Monks and Nuns who follow the Rule 
   of Saint Benedict in the British Isles and their Overseas Foundations. 

   He has travelled over 50,000 miles visiting all but one of the Houses 
   which appears in the Gazetteer Section of his Book Gregory's Angels.

   He moved on to Parbold in September 1999 and still receives visits from 
   past parishioners of Lostock Hall.