Born: 25th September 1951, Woburn, Bedfordshire

Son of Grace & Stan Knowles. Father a village school Head Teacher, Mother a School Secretary. One brother, Simon, lives in Sussex.

Married to Susan for thirty years. Susan is a former Head of English in a GPDST school in Southsea.

Education: Dunstable Grammar School and Kings College London (AKC) with final year of training at St. Augustine's College, Canterbury.
Ordained Deacon 1974, Ordained Priest 1975 in Canterbury Cathedral.
Title: St. Peter in Thanet 1974 - 1979
Senior Curate and Precentor Leeds Parish Church 1979 - 1981
Chaplain, Precentor and Chapter Clerk Portsmouth Cathedral 1981 - 1987
Secretary to the DAC for Portsmouth 1982 - 1993
Rural Dean of Havant 1990 - 1993
Archdeacon of Portsmouth 1993 - 1999
Dean of Carlisle 1999 - 2003
Lord Bishop of Sodor & Man 2003 - 2007
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral 2007 -

Member of Ecclesiastical Law Society
Member of General Synod
Chairman of the Council for the Care of Churches from 2003 having served 10 years as a council member before.

Interests:
Holidays! Novels of E F Benson; Victorian and Edwardian Ballads and songs (collecting and singing!); Architecture; Good food and wine.