Rev Richard Snow is team Rector of the Kirkby Lonsdale Team Ministry.  He studied aeronautical engineering at Bristol University and after graduation specialised in the hydrodynamics of minesweeping equipment and underwater systems.  He studied theology at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, and was ordained in 1990, but retains a passion for engineering, as well as the relationship between science and faith.   He served in the Diocese of Bath and Wells and the Diocese of Bristol before moving to Kirkby Lonsdale in 2007.   Has a Masters from Kings College, London in Youth Ministry and Theological Education and, in addition to parish duties, serves on the Carlisle Diocesan Synod and the Carlisle Diocese Board of Education.  Rev. Snow was a founding member of the Multi Academy Trust, formed on 16 May 2017.