Alexander Chinnery-Haldane

James Robert Alexander Chinnery-Haldane (14 August 1842 – 16 February 1906) was an Anglican bishop in the last decades of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century.[1]

Haldane was the son of the barrister and newspaper proprietor Alexander Haldane (son of Scottish cleric James Haldane). He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Inner Temple. He assumed the additional surname of Chinnery in 1864.[2] He was ordained in 1867 and began his ordained ministry with as a curate at Calne, Wiltshire. Later he was the incumbent of Nether Lochaber after which he was dean and then the Bishop of Argyll and The Isles, a position he held until his death on 16 February 1906.[3][4][5]

References

  1. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007, London, A & C Black, 2007, ISBN 9780199540877
  2. ^ Haldane (post Chinnery-Haldane), James Robert Alexander in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.
  3. ^ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
  4. ^ "The Clergy List, Clerical Guide and Ecclesiastical Directory", London, John Phillips, 1900
  5. ^ Obituary The Bishop Of Argyll And The Isles. The Times, 17 February 1906; p11; Issue 37946; col B
Religious titles
Preceded by
Robert Jackson MacGeorge		 Dean of Argyll and The Isles
1881 – 1883		 Succeeded by
Frederick Robert Halsey Herbert Noyes
Preceded by
George Mackarness		 Bishop of Argyll and The Isles
1883 – 1906		 Succeeded by
Kenneth Mackenzie
Deans of Argyll and The Isles
Bishops of Argyll and The Isles