Antony has been the Archdeacon of Dorset since Summer 2015 and was the Parish Priest at St George’s in Oakdale, Poole for 11 years prior to this. He was brought up in Salisbury and attended Bishop Wordsworth’s School in the city. His entire ministry has been spent in Wiltshire and Dorset, having served his curacy in Swindon in the 1990s before moving to an eight-year incumbency just outside Weymouth and then to Oakdale in 2004.

Antony is a Chartered Accountant and has served on the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Finance and Bishop’s Council. In 2011 he was elected chair of the Diocesan House of Clergy.

Outside of the Church he has a long-standing involvement in the credit union movement. He was previously President of the Association of British Credit Unions, and is regarded nationally as an expert on credit unions. He was a key player in setting up the Churches’ Mutual Credit Union, of which he is now President.

Antony has experience as a school governor serving as a governor (and Vice-Chair of governors) at a Secondary School in Poole for many years. He is currently Chair of the Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education.a