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Who's Who
Short biographies and contact details


Fr George joined Pusey House in August 2013. He grew up near Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the East coast of Canada. He studied philosophy and anthropology at McGill University, Montreal, and International Development Studies at St Mary's University in Halifax. He then read for a Master of Divinity degree at Wycliffe College, one of the member colleges of the Toronto School of Theology.
After ordination in 1997 George served in Cherry Hinton with Teversham and in the Ramseys and Upwood (Diocese of Ely), then in Oxford as Assistant Minister at St Michael at the North Gate and Lincoln College Chaplain.
George completed a PhD at the University of Durham under the supervision of Professor Andrew Louth, on E. B. Pusey’s unpublished lectures, ‘Types and Prophecies of the Old Testament’. His research interests include E. B. Pusey and the Oxford Movement, the allegorical interpretation of the Bible, and the artistic expression of Christian doctrine. George is married to Karen and they have two daughters, Clara and Charlotte.
The Revd Dr George Westhaver
Principal
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Fr Mark joined Pusey House in September 2014. After graduating from Liverpool University in Modern Languages, and from National Circus Schools in Paris and Bristol, he spent the best part of a decade as a Circus Performer, before running away from the Circus to join the Church. Mark trained for Ordination at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, and has served as Assistant Curate in the Parish of St. Barnabas and St. Paul, Jericho, and as Junior Chaplain at Merton College, since being ordained. Before coming to Oxford, Mark was the founder and Director of the Youth Charity 'redthread', and lists among his interests football, duelling weapons of the 18th Century, and Group Analytic Psychotherapy.
The Revd Mark Stafford
The Chaplain
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Jonathan joined Pusey House in October 2020. For the previous fifteen years he had been completing an annual scholarly circuit between Leiden, Warsaw, and Oxford, teaching and researching. In Oxford, he was junior research fellow at Blackfriars Hall and DPhil candidate, reading law, at Oriel College. In Leiden, he was PhD Fellow and lecturer in jurisprudence at the Leiden University Law School. And in Warsaw he was a sometime assistant professor in the faculty of philosophy. Now he is wholly involved in the work of Pusey House, and that of the broader university, as a Pusey Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford.
Dr Jonathan Price
The Matraszek Fellow
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The Rev. Parker Williams serves as Assistant Chaplain at Pusey House, Oxford. A fifth-generation “son of the soil,” Parker managed his family’s agribusiness and founded several ventures promoting conservation and environmental stewardship in southeast Missouri. A graduate of Ozark Christian College, Fuller Theological Seminary, and the University of Oxford, Parker lives in Oxford with his wife Lindsey, daughter Charlotte, and sons Samuel and Rowan.
The Revd Parker Williams
Assistant Chaplain
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Fr Matthew has been an Associate Priest at Pusey House since Easter 2025. He also serves at Worcester College as Assistant Chaplain and teaches at the Music Faculty in a range of areas related to music and worship. He has recently published (alongside his wife Jennifer Rushworth) the first English edition of the conferences of Blessed Christian de Chergé. He serves as National Liturgial Adviser to the Church of England.
The Revd Dr Matthew Cheung Salisbury
Associate Priest
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Fr Alex joined Pusey House as Associate Priest at Easter 2023. He was ordained deacon in 2006 and priest in 2007 and previously served as a self supporting Minister in the Diocese of London. In addition to his priestly duties he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1996 and is Head of the Church of England Legal Office and Chief Legal Adviser to the Archbishops' Council and the General Synod as well as being Official Solicitor to the Church Commissioners.
The Revd Alexander McGregor
Associate Priest
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Mehmet joined Pusey House in 2024 to become Custodian of the Library. In this role, he manages and directs the Library and Archives to serve the mission of the House to be a House of Sacred Learning.
He completed his DPhil at Trinity College, Oxford, before becoming the Étienne Gilson Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto. Since then, he has been a Research Assistant at the McDonald Centre in the Faculty of Theology & Religion at the University of Oxford, and the Public Bioethics Fellow for the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford.
He is able to talk at length about the liturgy or Ronald Knox to anyone willing to listen. He is married with two children.
Dr Mehmet Ciftci
Custodian of the Library
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The Revd Prof Nigel Biggar CBE is Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Pusey House, Oxford. He holds a B.A. in Modern History from Oxford and a Ph.D. in Christian Theology & Ethics from the University of Chicago. He was appointed C.B.E. “for services to Higher Education” in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.
His most recent books are Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning (2023), What’s Wrong with Rights? (2020), In Defence of War (2013), and Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014). In the press he has written articles for the Financial Times, the (London) Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, the (Glasgow} Herald, the Irish Times, Standpoint, The Critic, The Article, Unherd and Quillette.
He served on the Committee on Ethical Issues in Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians (London) from 2000 to 2014, the Royal Society’s Working Group on People and the Planet from 2010 to 2012, and the Pontifical Academy for Life from 2017 to 2022. He now chairs the board of trustees of the Free Speech Union.
He has lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the UK Defence Academy, Shrivenham; the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg; the US Military Academy, West Point; and the National Defense University, Washington, DC.
His hobbies include visiting battlefields. In 1973 he drove from Scotland via Iran and Afghanistan to India. And in 2015 and 2017 he trekked across the mountains of central Crete in the footsteps of Patrick Leigh-Fermor and his comrades, when they abducted General Kreipe in April-May 1944.
Nigel Biggar, Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence
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Ian joined Pusey House in January 2022, having been a regular worshipper since 2013. He read English at Magdalene College, Cambridge before working for the Diocese of St Albans for a number of years, managing its trust and glebe portfolio. After this he worked in international supply chain for a US multinational enterprise and then became Head of Global Business Development for a leading UK-based designer and manufacturer, setting up distribution networks across multiple continents. Following a break over the pandemic, (during which he helped to set up and run a local grocery business) his career came full circle, back to the Church of England, by offering his services to Pusey House, where he now works closely with the Principal and Chapter both in the daily administration and management of the House and also in considering its future development.
Ian plays piano and organ and enjoys the opera and ballet and gardening. He is a member of the Critics' Circle.
Ian Palmer
The Administrator
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Edward has been the full-time Master of Music at Pusey House since September 2025, where he enjoys the variety of the musical offering, from working with the octet of choral scholars each week at High Mass on a Sunday, to directing the voluntary choir, cantoring for mid-week services and organising the occasional larger event, such as an orchestral High Mass with the Oxford Baroque Players, featuring Haydn’s Paukenmesse. In addition, Edward is organist to Campion Hall, Oxford, a personal private hall of the University that is home to an academic community of Jesuits, where he plays for the weekly Hall Mass. He studies organ with Christian Wilson.
Edward read Music at Keble College, Oxford, where he was Organ Scholar, accompanying the pattern of weekly college services. In his time at the college, he also played for a radio broadcast and toured to Scandinavia and participated in the yearly Keble Early Music Festival.
A keen singer, he is a part of the early music ensemble, Antiquum Documentum, which puts on concerts and liturgical reconstructions. The most recent of these was a High Mass and Procession for the Presentation of the Lord according to the use of Salisbury (Sarum), in St Bartholomew the Great, London. This is part of a series of such services, working through English liturgies from the high Middle Ages to the Civil War; the next one will take place in the summer.
Upcoming organ recital venues include Magdalen College, Oxford; Lincoln College, Oxford and Queens’ College, Cambridge.
Edward Gaut
The Master of Music
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Obum is from a place called Umuobom, a village in Imo state, the South Eastern part of Nigeria. In 2015, he graduated from Abia State University in Uturu, Nigeria, with a BA in Library and Information Science, before completing the mandatory one-year National Youth Service program, during which he tutored junior high school students in English.
He moved to London to investigate his calling with the Lambeth Palace Community of St. Anselm (CoSA) and in 2023 relocated to the Isle of Man to work as a Ministerial Intern carrying out various pastoral duties. He came to Pusey House as a Chapel intern 2024.
Obum is passionate about Anglo-Catholicism and, like +Frank Weston, considers himself to be a defender of the faith. His interest lie in pastoral and sacramental theology, with a special emphasis on the Magnificat as a paradigm for Christians and a picture of God's magnanimity in the world. Aside from hobnobbing around the “smells and bells”, he enjoys mobile soccer, exploring ideas on a wide range of topics from social media and talking to family and friends.
Obumneke Ejezie
Sacristan and Pastoral Assistant
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Elliott came up in 2023 to read for an MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies. Ever since then he has worshipped regularly at Pusey House, taking on various roles as altar server, Choral Scholar, and occasional florist. A cradle Episcopalian and a native of Nashville, Tennessee, he majored in Classics and Art History and minored in Theology at Georgetown University for his undergrad.
Elliott Clark
Sacristan & Chapel Clerk
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David left his native Sweden in 2020 to pursue a BA in Theology at the University of Oxford. Following the completion of his degree, David joined the house as a vocational Chapel Intern in 2023. Coming from a line of distinctive deacons, David is rebelling by discerning a call to the priesthood.
David Sten
Chapel Intern
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Before joining Pusey House in 2025, Charles completed a BA degree in Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. He also spent a year working as a pastoral assistant under the Diocese of Europe's Ministerial Experience Scheme (MES) at the Anglican Chaplaincy in Vienna, as well as three months at St Michael and All Angels, Croydon. Coming from a clerical family, he enjoys liturgical and patristic theology, and is a keen football and darts player.
Charles Bishop
Chapel Intern
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Josh is a recent graduate from Keble College, where he completed both his bachelors and MPhil in Theology, with a specific focus on New Testament exegesis and early Christian history. Josh was born and raised in Ealing, West London, and is the eldest of four siblings. He joined Pusey House in 2025 as a Chapel Intern intending to discern a call to the priesthood.
Joshua May
Chapel Intern
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Matti joined Pusey House in October 2025, after two years as a member of the congregation. She has an MPhil in Islamic Studies and History from St. Cross College, Oxford, and is currently studying Plato and the will. Hailing from a peculiar place known as Lake County, Florida, Matti is also a country musician.
Matti Veldhuis
Academic Intern
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Phillip moved to Oxford in 2022 to begin a doctoral degree in theology, with focuses in patristics (especially Pseudo-Dionysius and the somehow even more obscure Philoponus) and philosophical theology (especially where it borders on ethics). While working on that degree, he discovered Pusey House, where he became a regular worshipper and, eventually, server. In 2025, he made that relationship official, joining the House team. When not studying or serving, he enjoys reading fiction (especially classic sci-fi or “Weird Fiction,” such as works by Arthur Machen) and walking the English countryside to learn the names of its plant life.
Phillip Quinn
Academic Intern
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