Father David has an MA from the University of Cambridge, and is the Praelector, and a Fellow, of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Fr David has been a senior member of the University of Cambridge since 2002, and has published two liturgical books with Canterbury Press: a book of table graces translated from the Latin Breviary, and a compendium of prayers of preparation for holy communion from various sources.

Brought up in the Church of England, he spent some years as a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate). Fr David worked later in the Open Episcopal Church, first as deacon ordained at Welling Chapel, London, and later as priest ordained in Ely, where he lives with his wife Sam.

Now Fr David is the priest of the Community of the Isle of Ely and The Fens, a mixed local and dispersed community based in Ely in the Cambridgeshire Fens. He incardinated into OCAC during Lent 2024.

Fr David says, "As well as being priest of the Community of the Isle of Ely and The Fens, I am a Force Chaplain for Cambridgeshire Constabulary, supporting officers and staff at Ely and March police stations in The Fens, and Chaplain to Welney Ward, Princess of Wales Hospital, Ely (Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust). In the same NHS Trust, I am on the chaplaincy rota at Fulbourn Psychiatric Hospital near Cambridge, celebrating Mass there on the third Sunday of the month.

I am a narrowboat owner and keen boater, and provide informal pastoral support to members of the live-aboard boating community around the Fen Waterways."

Fr David is also a Conservator of the River Cam, the statutory navigation authority between Bottisham Lock in Waterbeach and the Mill Pond in Cambridge, including the famous "Backs" as the river runs past several historic riverside Colleges.

At the OCAC UK Synod in 2024 Fr David was appointed as Abbot of the Benedictine Order of the Holy Spirit, a religious order to promote the Benedictine charism in today's world.