Alan David Chesters CBE was born on 26 August 1937 and was the Bishop of Blackburn from 1989 to 2003.
14 Facts About Alan Chesters
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Alan Chesters was ordained deacon in 1962, priest in 1963 and bishop in 1989.
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Alan Chesters served as assistant curate of St Anne's Wandsworth from 1962 to 1965.
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Alan Chesters then became chaplain of Tiffin School, a post that he soon combined with that of honorary assistant curate of St Richard's Ham.
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Alan Chesters was an honorary canon of Durham Cathedral from 1975 until 1984.
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Alan Chesters took his seat in the House of Lords in 1995.
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Alan Chesters retired in 2003, and became an honorary assistant bishop in the dioceses of Chester and Gibraltar in Europe.
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Alan Chesters moved from the diocese of Chester in 2010, ceasing to be an assistant bishop in Chester, remaining one in Europe and becoming one in Southwark and Chichester.
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Alan Chesters was first elected to the General Synod in 1975.
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Alan Chesters was a member of its standing committee from 1985 to 1989 and 1990 to 1995, and served as vice chairman, and later chairman, of the Board of Education.
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In October 2000, Alan Chesters officially opened an extension at a school in Oswaldtwistle.
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Alan Chesters has been chairman of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Advisory Committee on Church Colleges and president of the Woodard Corporation.
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Alan Chesters was a member of the Countryside Commission, and chairman of the North West Rural Affairs Forum.
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Alan Chesters was awarded an Honorary Fellowship in 2007 from the University of Cumbria.