Anthony Peter Bird (1931 – 2016) was a British Anglican priest, physician, and academic. From 1974 to 1979, he was Principal of Queen's College, Birmingham, an ecumenical theological college.Bird was born in 1931 in Wolverhampton, England. His father Harry was a parish priest, and his mother Noel (née Oakley) was a teacher. He was brought up in his father's vicarage in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, an independent school in Leatherhead, Surrey.Bird studied classics at St John's College, Oxford, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1954; as per tradition, his BA was promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree in 1957. He remained at St John's to study theology and graduated with a Bachelor of Theology (BTh) degree in 1955. He trained for ordination at Cuddesdon College, an Anglican theological college in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, between 1955 and 1957. Wikipedia
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