Peter Fearnley Hullah (born 7 May 1949) is a British former Anglican bishop who was

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Education and ministry

Hullah was educated at

Bradford Grammar School Bradford Grammar School (BGS) is a co-educational private day school located in Frizinghall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Entrance is by examination. For the sixth form admission is based on GCSE results. The school gives means-tested ...

and

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. He was

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in 1974 and was a

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at St Michael and All Angels,

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, and then chaplain (from 1978) and housemaster of the International Centre (1982-1985) at

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and

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Chetham's School of Music Chetham's School of Music () is a private co-educational boarding and day music school in Manchester, England. Chetham's educates pupils between the ages of 8 and 18, all of whom enter via musical auditions. The music school was established i ...

before being ordained to the

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. He was Bishop of Ramsbury from 1999 to 2005 when he became principal of the Northampton Academy. He is now director of Hopeful Leadership Ltd and a consultant to various charities including Together for Sudan.

Chetham's School of Music sex abuse scandal

When Hullah was headteacher of Chetham’s School of Music (1992–1999), he witnessed Michael Brewer, the school's director of music, sexually abusing a pupil, but chose to deal with the incident by announcing that Brewer had taken early retirement on the grounds of ill health, in order to preserve the reputation of the school and the perpetrator. Brewer was paid his full salary from when he left Chetham’s in December 1994 until August 1995, which Hullah considered to be a gesture of goodwill on the part of the governing body. Brewer continued to be associated with Chetham’s as an advisor and to work closely with young people as the artistic director of the National Youth Choir. Hullah did not notify the National Youth Choir, the local authority or the Department for Education (which at that time operated List 99, a barred list of those deemed unsuitable to work with children) of the circumstances or the fact of Brewer's resignation, although there was a statutory duty to notify the Department for Education of such resignations. Hullah did not consider that the circumstances of Brewer's resignation were such as to require any referrals or notification. Text was copied from this source, which is available under a
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Under clergy discipline for historic misconduct

Following complaints of sexual misconduct against him, Hullah was seen before a bishop's tribunal in 2022. He pleaded guilty and subsequently the Archbishop of Canterbury imposed the penalty of "prohibition for life" from exercising any ministerial functions in the Church of England.

Role in the City of London

Hullah became the master of the

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in September 2022.

References

1949 births Living people People educated at Bradford Grammar School Alumni of King's College London Associates of King's College London Bishops of Ramsbury 20th-century Church of England bishops 21st-century Church of England bishops {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub