Desmond Carroll
Charles William Desmond Carroll was the Archdeacon of Blackburn from 1983 to 1985.
Carroll was educated at St Columba's [College, Dublin] and Trinity College, Dublin. After an earlier career as a school teacher he was Vicar of Stanwix from 1950 to 1959; Director of Religious Education for the Diocese of Blackburn from 1959 to 1964; and a canon residentiary of Blackburn Cathedral from 1964 until his appointment as an archdeacon.