Robert Mackay was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1922 [1] to 1934.
He was educated at the University of Aberdeen [2] and ordained in 1883. After a curacy at Edinburgh Cathedral he was Rector of Longside from 1845. [3] During World War I he was a Chaplain to the Forces. He was the Synod Clerk for the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1910 to 1922; and a Canon of Aberdeen Cathedral from 1914 to 1922.
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