David Fuller BSc, BTh, PhD left school at age 16, with a modest list of mediocre GCE ‘O’ level passes, and was accepted for employment as an Apprenticed Metallurgist with a local manufacturing company. He studied part-time at Ipswich Civic College (now Suffolk New College) and was credited with Ordinary and Higher National Certificates in Metallurgy. In 1962 he went to University College, Cardiff, (now the University of Cardiff) to read Applied Metallurgy and in 1966 was awarded a Bachelor of Science Degree with First Class Honours and the A A Read Student Metallurgy Prize.
In 1978, after a number of years in scientific management, he moved to Blackburn in Lancashire and until 1992 was responsible for the operation of one of Europe’s most modern, high volume iron foundries. During this time he was a regular contributor of technical lectures at many national and international conferences and seminars associated with the iron foundry industry. He was appointed to the Management Board of BCIRA, then the foundry industry’s principal research association, and in 1991 was elected President of EEF North West, an organisation which represented engineering companies that collectively employed over 30,000 personnel. During most of the 1980s he was ‘head’ of the band of altar servers at Blackburn Cathedral.
In 1993 he left the manufacturing industry and retrained in computer science. In 1995 he was awarded a Post Graduate Certificate in Education by the University of Huddersfield and taught IT classes at Blackburn College until 1999. In that year he retired to the Isle of Mull in Scotland where he and his wife had had a holiday home for many years. He is now a Licensed Lay Reader in the Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Argyll and The Isles. After retirement he spent seven years as a part-time, distance-learning, undergraduate student of the University of Aberdeen and was awarded a Bachelor of Theology Degree with Honours (2:1) in 2009. In 2014, after five years of part-time, distance-learning, post-graduate research at the University of Glasgow, studying the life and writings of Anglican monk and liturgist Dom Gregory Dix (1901–52), the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on him. His interests include: writing, cabinet making, puzzle solving and calligraphy.
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Written 2020