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Alexander MacKenzie (priest)

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Alexander MacKenzie
Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness
ChurchScottish Episcopal Church
Installed1918 (1918)
Term ended1949 (1949)
Orders
Ordination1905 (1905)
Personal details
Born
Alexander Augustin Donald MacKenzie

(1876-02-19)19 February 1876
Died1 July 1969(1969-07-01) (aged 93)
Alma materHatfield College, Durham

The Very Rev. Alexander Augustin Donald MacKenzie (19 February 1876 – 1 July 1969) was Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness from 1918 to 1949.[1]

Mackenzie studied theology at Durham University on a scholarship, and was a member of Hatfield College there.[2] As a student he was active in Durham University Boat Club, serving as both Secretary and President by 1903.[3] He also became Senior Man of Hatfield[3] and President of the Durham Union for Epiphany term of 1903.[4] Mackenzie was ordained in 1905.[5]

He began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Mark's Church, Leicester. He was Precentor of Inverness Cathedral from 1911 to 1918 when he became Provost.[6]

He died aged 92 in 1969.[7]

Notes

  1. ^ "Am Baile - Highland History and Culture". www.ambaile.org.uk. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  2. ^ "Durham University calendar 1936-7". reed.dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 March 2018.
  3. ^ a b Moyes, Arthur (2007). Be The Best You Can Be: A History of Sport in Hatfield College, Durham University. Hatfield Trust. p. 52.
  4. ^ Campbell, P. D. A. (1952). A Short History of the Durham Union Society. Durham County Press. p. 16.
  5. ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1967–68 p 787 Oxford: OUP, 1967
  6. ^ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0567087468
  7. ^ "Deaths". The Times. No. 57755. London, England. 31 December 1969. p. 8.
Religious titles
Preceded by Provost of St Andrew's Cathedral, Inverness
1918–1949
Succeeded by