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Clergy
Father David Peebles
Rector
David Peebles was born in Stockton-on-Tees in the North East. 
His interest in reading serious literature – Iris Murdoch was an early favourite – was self
taught, and it was in his early teens that he was first aware of “that there was something
bigger than Stockton in the world” following which a personal realization of the presence of
God in his life soon took shape. Since his was not a church going family, he started attending
church on his own.
After attending the local comprehensive school, he went on to Sixth Form College, where he
obtained A levels in English, History and Religious Knowledge. He was the first member of his
family to go to university, studying Theology at Bristol, graduating in 1985, and then went on
to obtain a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) at Durham University.
David next attended the highly regarded Community of the Resurrection Anglican Theological
College at Mirfield in West Yorkshire between 1988 and 1990, before moving on to his first
posting as an ordained minister as a curate in Crewe, where he worked hard at building up the
local Youth Clubs, between 1990-93. He then went back to Mirfield to teach for two academic
years, before coming down to London in 1995, where he was chaplain at Queen Mary College
and then priest-in-charge at St Matthew’s Bethnal Green, both in the East End.
In 2000 he was appointed Chaplain & Interfaith Advisor to the London School of Economics,
where he has successfully overseen a £1.6m project to create an Interfaith Centre, which aims
to facilitate dialogue between LSE students of different faiths or none at all. “In the 1970s and
1980s sociologists and other commentators prophesied the imminent collapse of religion as a
meaningful force in Society. They have been proved very wrong”
After ten years at the LSE, in the summer of 2010 he was appointed Rector to St George’s
Bloomsbury, in succession to Father Perry Butler.
Father Rene Jarrett
Father Rene Jarrett originated from Sierra Leone
and has been in the UK since 1988. He has been
assisting in the Edmonton Diocese and presently
is Honorary Assistant Priest at St George's Bloomsbury.
He is also Chaplain to the Sierra Leone community
in the UK.
Father Ronald Coppin
Father James Walters
The Revd Dr James Walters is Chaplain to the
London School of Economics and an honorary
associate priest at St George’s. Before moving
down to Bloomsbury he was assistant curate at
Hampstead Parish Church. Jim studied at
Cambridge and has interests in politics,
philosophy, the Arts and modern theology.
Clergy
Father David Peebles
Rector
David Peebles was born in Stockton-on-Tees in the North East.
His interest in reading serious literature – Iris Murdoch was an early favourite – was self
taught, and it was in his early teens that he was first aware of “that there was something
bigger than Stockton in the world” following which a personal realization of the presence of
God in his life soon took shape. Since his was not a church going family, he started attending
church on his own.
After attending the local comprehensive school, he went on to Sixth Form College, where he
obtained A levels in English, History and Religious Knowledge. He was the first member of his
family to go to university, studying Theology at Bristol, graduating in 1985, and then went on
to obtain a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Education) at Durham University.
David next attended the highly regarded Community of the Resurrection Anglican Theological
College at Mirfield in West Yorkshire between 1988 and 1990, before moving on to his first
posting as an ordained minister as a curate in Crewe, where he worked hard at building up the
local Youth Clubs, between 1990-93. He then went back to Mirfield to teach for two academic
years, before coming down to London in 1995, where he was chaplain at Queen Mary College
and then priest-in-charge at St Matthew’s Bethnal Green, both in the East End.
In 2000 he was appointed Chaplain & Interfaith Advisor to the London School of Economics,
where he has successfully overseen a £1.6m project to create an Interfaith Centre, which aims
to facilitate dialogue between LSE students of different faiths or none at all. “In the 1970s and
1980s sociologists and other commentators prophesied the imminent collapse of religion as a
meaningful force in Society. They have been proved very wrong”
After ten years at the LSE, in the summer of 2010 he was appointed Rector to St George’s
Bloomsbury, in succession to Father Perry Butler.
Father Rene Jarrett
Father Rene Jarrett originated from Sierra Leone
and has been in the UK since 1988. He has been
assisting in the Edmonton Diocese and presently
is Honorary Assistant Priest at St George's Bloomsbury.
He is also Chaplain to the Sierra Leone community
in the UK.
Father Ronald Coppin
Father James Walters
The Revd Dr James Walters is Chaplain to the
London School of Economics and an honorary
associate priest at St George’s. Before moving
down to Bloomsbury he was assistant curate at
Hampstead Parish Church. Jim studied at
Cambridge and has interests in politics,
philosophy, the Arts and modern theology.