The Very Rev Charles MacAlester Copland was an eminent Anglican Priest in the second half of the 20th century.
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]
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| Preceded by George Kennedy Buchanan Henderson |
Dean of Argyll and The Isles 1977 – 1979 |
Succeeded by Ian George MacQueen Wilson |
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