David Railton is an English-born Anglican bishop in the Scottish Episcopal Church. Since 2024, he has been bishop of Argyll and the Isles.

Railton was born in Yorkshire and trained as a pharmacist at the University of Bradford. After university, he worked as a pharmacist in Derby, where he married his wife, Sarah, in 1991.^[1]

He was ordained in the Diocese of Derby as a deacon in 2008 and as a priest in 2009.^[2] He was a curate in Derbyshire, then was incumbent in a three-church benefice based in Hazelwood and assistant chaplain to the bishop of Derby.^[1] In 2015, he became vicar of two churches in Darlington in the Diocese of Durham, and in 2019, he was named rector of Holy Trinity Church, Dunoon, and St Paul’s Church in Rothesay, a linked parish in the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.^[1][3]

In May 2024, Railton was elected bishop of Argyll and the Isles in succession to Keith Riglin, who had died in November 2023.^[2][4] He was consecrated and installed at St. John's Cathedral, Oban, on 28 August 2024,^[5][6] and was seated as provost at the Cathedral of The Isles on Great Cumbrae in October 2024.^[7]