Born:
| November 1943, Bolton, Lancashire
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| Education: | 1948-53 | Four Lane Ends Primary School, Blackburn, Lancs |
| | 1953-55 | St Dunstan’s Primary School, Jubilee Road, Cheam, Surrey |
| | 1955-62 | King’s College School, Wimbledon. |
| | 1962-66
| Christ Church, Oxford studying Chemistry and doing research in Microbiology |
| Career: | In Education |
| | 1966-68 | Lecturer in Building (Science and Maths), Oxford Polytechnic |
| | 1968-71
| Lecturer in Building Science, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
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| | In Business (Publishing and Bookselling) |
| | 1969 | One of three founding Directors of the Medical and Technical Publishing Company Ltd (MTP) in Lancaster, England. |
| | 1971 | Resigned lectureship at Manchester University to become a full-time Director of MTP alongside his brother David , who continued as Professor of Medicine in Nairobi University, Kenya and David Bloomer, the Managing Director of the Company |
| | 1971-74 | Director of MTP |
| | 1973- | Founder and Managing Director of Lancaster Editorials Ltd |
| | 1974-82 | Founder and Managing Director of The Construction Press Ltd |
| | 1975-99 | Founder and Managing Director of Lunesdale Publishing Group Ltd |
| | 1975-89 | Founder and Managing Director of Carnforth Bookshop Ltd which eventually became well-known nationally as the largest second-hand bookshop in the region. It also had a philatelic department. |
| | 2006- | Chairman of Sovereign World Ltd |
| | In Ministry
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| | 1969-70 | First envisioned to believe that God wanted to use him in the restoration of broken lives. |
| | 1970-80 | Progressively envisioned to pray for the establishment of a ministry in evangelism and healing in the North West of England |
| | 1977 | Established The Christian Trust in faith, as a registered charity to be the vehicle for a subsequent ministry of healing and evangelism |
| | 1982-84 | Local Area Chairman of Mission England. Originator of the hymn and song book for the Billy Graham campaign, first known as Mission England Praise and then simply Mission Praise. |
| | 1986 | Founder of the healing and training ministry at Ellel Grange, subsequently to become known as Ellel Ministries and later, as it developed and grew, as Ellel Ministries International. |
| | 1986-date | Director of the work of Ellel Ministries International and Chairman of the 11-strong Executive Leadership of the international ministry, now with operating centres in twenty different countries, and with students who have trained with the ministry working in well over forty different countries. |