Charles Copland Explained

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 and References

  1. His father was Canon Alexander Copland Who was Who 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007
  2. [Crockford's Clerical Directory]
  3. http://stmaryarbroath.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ Web site of St Mary’s, Arbroath
  4. Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 Bertie, D. M: Edinburgh T & T Clark
  5. http://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk:8080/Archives/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo=='Ramsey/4-287/1963/40/267-8') National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives
  6. http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=87467 Church Times Obituary