Bill Down


William John Denbigh "Bill" Down was the ninth Bishop of Bermuda and later the Assistant Bishop of Leicester.
Educated at St John's College, Cambridge, Down was ordained in 1960. His first post was as a curate at St Paul's Church, Salisbury after which he was secretary to the Missions to Seaman and chaplain of St Michael Paternoster Royal until his ordination to the episcopate in 1990. He returned to England as the Assistant Bishop of Leicester before retiring in 2001.