David Porter (bishop)

David Brownfield Porter (10 May 1906 – 14 May 1993) was the suffragan Bishop of Aston from 1962 to 1972.

He was born in Wandsworth, London and educated at Hertford College, Oxford.[1] He studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford before a curacy in Leeds (at Wrangthorn St Augustine). He was made a deacon at Michaelmas 1929 (22 September) at his title church[2] and ordained a priest in Advent 1930 (19 December) at Ripon Minster — both times by Edward Burroughs, Bishop of Ripon.[3] From 1935 — in which year he announced his engagement[4] — he was Vicar of All Saints', Highfield, Oxfordshire[5] and then from 1943 of St Cuthbert's Church, Darlington. From there he became Rector of Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh[6] and from 1954 to 1961 Dean of Edinburgh. In 1962 he was appointed suffragan Bishop of Aston, where he remained until retirement. He was consecrated a bishop on 2 February 1962, by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey.[7] In 1972 he retired to Brockhampton, Gloucestershire, where he died.