Anthony Peter Bird was a British Anglican priest, physician, and academic.
15 Facts About Anthony Bird
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Anthony Bird's father Harry was a parish priest, and his mother Noel was a teacher.
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Anthony Bird was brought up in his father's vicarage in Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
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Anthony Bird was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, a private school in Leatherhead, Surrey.
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Anthony Bird remained at St John's to study theology and graduated with a Bachelor of Theology degree in 1955.
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Anthony Bird trained for ordination at Cuddesdon College, an Anglican theological college in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, between 1955 and 1957.
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Anthony Bird was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1957 and as a priest in 1958.
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Anthony Bird served his curacy at St Mary's Church, Stafford in the Diocese of Lichfield between 1957 and 1960.
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Anthony Bird studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, and graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1970.
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Anthony Bird trained as a general practitioner and worked in the King's Norton area of Birmingham until he returned to academia in 1974.
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Anthony Bird became a full-time GP in 1979, and ran an "experimental medical practice" in Balsall Heath, Birmingham until he retired in 1996.
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From retirement until his death, Anthony Bird held permission to officiate in the Diocese of Birmingham.
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Anthony Bird died on 16 May 2016, aged 85 years, from pancreatic cancer.
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Anthony Bird's funeral was held on 3 June 2016 at St Paul's Church, Balsall Heath.
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Anthony Bird had three children with his first wife; Markus, Stephanie and Dominic.