Charles Copland
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[edit]
- ^ His father was Canon Alexander Copland Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 9780199540877
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1941
- ^ Web site of St Mary’s, Arbroath Archived December 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 Bertie, D. M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
- ^ National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives[permanent dead link]
- ^ Church Times Obituary
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