The Revd David W. Hoskin

I have been Vicar of St Mary's since 1988, and I am also Rural Dean of Beverley.

My wife Jan is a primary school supply teacher, and we have two grown-up children - Stephanie lives in Cambridge and is soon to begin a teacher training course there, and Christopher is a Mechanical Design Engineer working for the railway industry in Derby.

As well as my work in the parish and deanery I am very much involved with education, both as a Governor of our Church School and as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the York Diocesan Board of Education.

I was born in Gloucester in 1949 and educated at Sir Thomas Rich's School and Hatfield College, Durham, where I studied Chemistry - and met my wife! A year teaching English in Tripoli in Libya preceded my theological training at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

I was ordained in 1975 to a curacy at Bridlington Priory, and have since served in parishes as far apart as Wiltshire and the Wirral. Before coming to St Mary's I was Rector of Lockington and Lund and Scorborough with Leconfield (villages to the north of Beverley).

My interests include model engineering - and relaxing on holiday in France!

David Hoskin, March 2003