Dave Middlebrook

Middlebrook graduated from Newcastle University with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in 1983 and from Cranfield Institute of Technology with a Master of Science (MSc) in 1985.^[1] His Masters was in "Distribution Technology and Management" and he worked for National Freight, based in Bedford; he married Anne in 1987 and they have two children. Middlebrook worked for The Leprosy Mission from 1993 - 1996. ^[2] Dave then trained for the ministry at Trinity College Bristol from 1996 - 1998, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA).^[1]

Middlebrook was made deacon at Petertide 1998 (28 June)^[3] and ordained a priest the Petertide following (4 July 1999) — both times by Christopher Herbert, Bishop of St Albans, at St Albans Cathedral.^[4] His entire ministry has been exercised in the Diocese of St Albans: after a curacy at Chorleywood (1998–2002), he served as a Team Vicar (for Adeyfield) in the Hemel Hempstead Team Ministry.^[1]

He moved to Watford in 2008 to serve as parish priest (as priest-in-charge until 2012, and thereafter as vicar, a purely legal distinction); he has additionally been Rural Dean of Watford since 2009 and an honorary canon of St Albans Cathedral since 2013.^[1] On 18 November 2018, it was announced that he was to become Archdeacon of Bedford^[2] from he was collated on 30 March 2019.^[5]