Robert Mackay (priest)

The Very Rev 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 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.

Notes

  1. ↑ The Times (London, England), Saturday, 23 May 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
Religious titles
Preceded by
James Wiseman		 Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney
1922–1934		 Succeeded by
George Bartlet



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