Richard Neil Inwood (4 March 1946 - 14 April 2019) was a Bishop suffragan of Bedford. Inwood was born in Burton-on-Trent and studied chemistry at

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and theology at the

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. Before ordination, he spent a year teaching in north-west

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and worked as a research and development chemist with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) in

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for nearly two years. He served in

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, London, Bath and

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before his appointment in 1995 as Archdeacon of Halifax.''Crockford's Clerical Directory 2008/2009'' (100th edition), Church House Publishing (). He was consecrated a bishop by

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, Archbishop of Canterbury at

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on 7 March 2003. From 9 April 2014 until 8 April 2015, he was Acting Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham at the request of the

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. 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. In August 2014, Pemberton had an offer of work at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust withdrawn following Inwood's refusal to grant the relevant licence. Inwood was the co-author of ''Moved by Steam: Beside the tracks and on the trains 1962-67'' with Mike Smith (Kettering, 2009 ). His wife, Liz, is a mathematics teacher and examiner. Inwood died on 14 April 2019."Bishop Richard Inwood RIP"
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Styles

*Richard Inwood Esq (1946–c1975) *The Revd Richard Inwood (c1975–1995) *The Ven Richard Inwood (1995–2003) *The Rt Revd Richard Inwood (2003–2019)

References

1946 births Alumni of University College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Nottingham Living people Imperial Chemical Industries people Bishops of Bedford Bishops of Southwell 20th-century Church of England bishops {{Christian-bio-stub