John Richards (bishop of Ebbsfleet)

John Richards was the first Bishop of Ebbsfleet from 1994 to 1998.
Richards was born on 4 October 1933and educated at Reading School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1959 and his first post was a curacy at St Thomas' Exeter. Following this he was the Rector of Cookbury then the Rural Dean of Holsworthy. From 1974 until 1981 he was the Rector of Heavitree and then the Archdeacon of Exeter until his ordination to the episcopate. He died on 9 November 2003.