Robert Mackay (priest)

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The Very Rev Robert Mackay was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1922 to[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 One 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.

Religious titles
Preceded by
James Wiseman
Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney
1922 1934
Succeeded by
George Bartlet

Notes

  1. The Times (London, England), Saturday, May 23, 1931; pg. 15; Issue 45830 (conducts burial of the Princess Royal at Mar Lodge)
  2. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p830: Oxford, OUP, 1929
  3. ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” p494 Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
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