Adrian Roberts

Adrian Roberts is a retired teacher of Religious Studies and former Lay Chaplain at the Grammar School at Leeds, UK. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic, and attended Ampleforth College and Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied Classics, before going on to study Theology at King’s College, London. He joined the Church of England in 1995, though he continues to be both Catholic and ecumenical in sympathy and affiliation.

Adrian lives in a rural area near Ripon, North Yorkshire with his wife Emily, nine hens and a cat. He is a Lay Reader in the Anglican Diocese of Leeds, in which he takes services and provides spiritual direction. He has two grown-up sons, Theo and Hal (who features in Out of the Whirlwind). Apart from theology and history, his interests include old fountain pens, natural remedies and singing folk music to the guitar, as well as playing baroque music on the treble recorder and klezmer music on the clarinet. 

Interested readers can contact Adrian at numenor18@gmail.com.