{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use British English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox Christian leader | honorific-prefix = The Rt Revd | name = David Hallatt | honorific-suffix = MA(Oxon) FRGS | title = Bishop of Shrewsbury | diocese = Diocese of Lichfield | term = 1994–2001 (retired) | predecessor = John Davies | successor = Alan Smith | other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in Salisbury (2011–present); and in Sheffield (2001–2010)<br />Archdeacon of Halifax (1989–1994) <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = {{circa|1963}} (deacon); {{circa|1964}} (priest) | consecration = 1994 <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1937|7|15|df=y}} | religion = Anglican | parents = John & Edith | spouse = Margaret Smitton (m. 1967) | children = 2 sons | occupation = | profession = | alma_mater = University of Southampton }} '''David Marrison Hallatt'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page2739.asp |title=Official notification of resignation |access-date=24 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031005035/http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page2739.asp |archive-date=31 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> (born 15 July 1937) is a former Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury in the diocese of Lichfield.
Hallatt was educated at Birkenhead School and the University of Southampton.<ref name="ww">‘HALLATT, Rt Rev. David Marrison’, ''Who's Who'' 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2011 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U34786], accessed 6 July 2012</ref> Ordained in 1963 he began his career as curate at ''St Andrew's Maghull''.<ref>[http://www.achurchnearyou.com/venue.php?V=6950 Details of Parish]{{Dead link|date=September 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> After that he was successively the Vicar of Totley, ''Team Rector'' of Didsbury and finally (before his elevation to the episcopate)<ref name=crockfords100th>''Crockford's clerical directory 2008/2009 (100th edition)'', Church House Publishing ({{ISBN|978-0-7151-1030-0}})</ref> Archdeacon of Halifax.<ref name="ww" />
==Retirement== A keen ornithologist,<ref name="ww" /> in retirement he continued to serve the Church as an honorary assistant bishop within Sheffield diocese (2001–2010) and then Salisbury diocese (since 2011).
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