A FORMER leader of one of Britain’s most far-flung overseas territories is to become a clergyman in the Yorkshire Dales.
Michael Blanch, former chief executive of the Falkland Islands government, is to serve as curate at Askrigg united with Stallingbusk.
He is one of a number of new curates to be ordained at a service in Ripon Cathedral on Sunday, June 28.
They include Peter Matthews, who worked for the British Council in Botswana and Zambia, who will be curate at Catterick, chaplain at St Francis Xavier School, Richmond and a Pioneer Minister in Richmond Deanery.
Darryl Hall, a former business manager from Northallerton who trained at Cranmer Hall, will serve in the Knaresborough team, while counsellor Marjorie Warner will serve her curacy at Masham united with Healey.
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