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I was born in Whitby in 1958 and christened in the chapel at Sneaton Castle. My grandparents were the Holmans of Skinner Street, and my mother served the town for many years as both Town Clerk and Mayoress, becoming one of Whitby’s first Honorary Citizens in 1996. She also taught music at Sneaton Castle when it was a school.
After attending Whitehall and Fyling Hall Schools, I worked in Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne before undertaking theological training in 1983. Ordained in Hereford in 1988, I worked as a minister in the Church of England until 2006. I have served in rural ministry in South Shropshire, and then in Lymington in the New Forest.
Having then spent some years in the care of a church in Portsmouth, I moved to Worthing in West Sussex to begin a ministry of almost twelve years as a full-time non-denominational hospice chaplain. Calling on some thirty-five years of experience, I now work as an Independent Wedding and Funeral Celebrant and am a member of the Fellowship of Professional Celebrants. The KSJ that follows my name is because I was created a Knight of Honour of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights Hospitaller) in Valletta in 2010. I moved back home to Whitby in 2022.
