Anthony James Balmforth (3 September 1926 – 20 February 2009)Church Times was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1979 until 1990.‘BALMFORTH, Ven. Anthony James’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009; online edn, Nov 2009 accessed 2 May 2013
Balmforth educated at Sebright School and Brasenose College, Oxford.Brazen Nose He was ordained Deacon in 1952 and Priest in 1953. After a curacy in MansfieldCrockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60 Oxford, OUP, 1959 p51 he held incumbencies in Skegby, Kidderminster and Kings Norton until his Archdeacon’s appointment.
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