Charles Copland

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Charles MacAlester Copland was an Anglican priest.

Born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 April 1910 [1] and educated at Denstone College, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1934 [2] and began his career with a curacy at Peterborough Parish Church, after which he was a Mission Priest in Chanda District, Maharashtra, until 1953. He was then Rector of St Mary's, Arbroath [3] until 1959 when he became Provost of St John's Cathedral, Oban [4] -a post he held for twenty years. Between 1977 and 1979 he was also Dean of Argyll and The Isles. [5]

He died four months short of his hundredth year on 12 December 2009. [6]

Notes

  1. ↑ His father was Canon Alexander Copland Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN   9780199540877
  2. ↑ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
  3. ↑ Web site of St Mary’s, Arbroath Archived December 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 Bertie, D. M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN   0567087468
  5. ↑ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives [ permanent dead link ]
  6. ↑ Church Times Obituary
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Preceded by Dean of Argyll and The Isles
1977 – 1979		Succeeded by


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