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The Rt Rev Richard Durnford (3 November 1802 – 14 October 1895) was the Bishop of Chichester from 1870 to 1895.He was born in Newbury Berkshire into an ecclesiastical family (his father was also named Rev. Richard Dunford). He was educated at Eton and Magdalen College Oxford and ordained in 1831. From 1833 he was Rector of Middleton Lancashire and then its Rural Dean. In 1867 he became Archdeacon of Manchester and in the following year Canon Residentiary at Manchester Cathedral.