Solicitor (retired) in Holy Orders serving in the Anglican tradition. Since 2022 Registrar of the Dioceses of Dublin & Glendalough and of the Episcopal Province of Dublin.

Dublin Treasurer of Irish Legal History Society, 1995 to 2006 and 2015 to date. President 2012 to 2015: an all Ireland society under the patronage of the Chief Justice of Ireland and the Lady Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.

Member Historical Studies Committee, Royal Irish Academy 2020 to date.

Vice-Chair Irish Committee Historical Sciences.

Interests Irish and British Legal and Ecclesiastical History from 1860.