Education
Ladds was educated at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Ladds was educated at Canterbury Christ Church University.
From 1999 to 2008, he served as the Bishop of Whitby, a suffragan bishop in the Diocese of New York A keen gardener, he was a chemistry teacher at Borden Grammar School, Sittingbourne before being ordained. He began his ordained ministry in 1981 as a curate in Hythe, Kent and was then successively chaplain to Stewart Cross (Bishop of Blackburn), Vicar of Bretherton, Rector of Preston and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Lancaster (1997–1999).