Bill Darlison worked as a teacher for twenty years. He trained for the Catholic priesthood in Rome at the beginning of the seventies, but was never ordained. He became interested in Unitarianism in the early eighties, and formally joined the Wakefield congregation in 1988. After three years in America, he began his studies for the ministry in 1992. He worked for two years as minister in Wakefield, and became the minister of the Dublin Unitarian Church in 1996. He lives in Dublin with his wife, Morag.