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David Brownfield Porter (1906–1993) was the suffragan Bishop of Aston from 1962 to 1972.He was born in Wandsworth London on the 10 May 1906 and educated at Hertford College Oxford. He studied for ordination at Wycliffe Hall Oxford before a curacy in Leeds. From 1935 he was Vicar of All Saints’ Highfield Oxfordshire and then from 1943 of All Saints Darlington. From there he became Rector of Church of St John the Evangelist Edinburgh and from 1964 to 1971 Dean of Edinburgh.