Michael Hare Duke Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Michael Hare Duke
Honorific Suffix:TSSF
Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
Church:Scottish Episcopal Church
Diocese:St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane
Appointed:-->
Term:1969–1994
Retired:-->
Predecessor:John Howe
Successor:Michael Henley
Ordination:1953
Consecration:1969
Birth Date:28 November 1924
Birth Place:Calcutta, India
Death Place:Perth, Scotland
Spouse:Grace Lydia Frances Dodd
Children:4
Alma Mater:Trinity College, Oxford

Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke (28 November 1924 – 15 December 2014) was an Anglican bishop[1] [2] and author:[3] a former Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Early life

Born 28 November 1924,[4] he was educated at Bradfield College and Trinity College, Oxford.[5]

He was a Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR from 1944 to 1946.

Ordained ministry

Hare Duke was ordained deacon in 1952 and priest a year later.[6] He began his ecclesiastical career as a curate at St John's Wood[7] after which he was Vicar of St John with St Mark, Bury.[8] He was Pastoral Director for the Clinical Theology Association after which he was Vicar of St Paul's, Daybrook.

He was elevated to the episcopate in 1969 [9] as the 9th Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane. He retired in 1994.

He was a member of the Third Order of the Society of Saint Francis (TSSF), having made his profession in 1950.[10]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bishop Michael Hare Duke RIP. The Scottish Episcopal Church. 27 December 2014.
  2. http://www.holytrinitystirling.org/mcintyre19741994.htm Holy Trinity Scottish Episcopal Church, Stirling: Rev. James Whitelaw McIntyre, B.D. (1974–93)
  3. Amongst others, he wrote "The Caring Church", 1963; "First Aid in Counselling", 1968; "Understanding the Adolescent", 1969; "The Break of Glory", 1970; "Freud", 1972; "Good News", 1976; "Stories, Signs and Sacraments in the Emerging Church", 1982; "Praying for Peace", 1991; "Hearing the Stranger", 1994; and "One Foot in Heaven", 2001> British Library website accessed 19:01 GMT 13 May 2011
  4. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008
  5. Web site: Rt. Rev. Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke. Frost's Scottish Who's Who. https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163652/http://martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/mfwhoswho/individuals/H_mfwwi/michael_hare_duke.html . 14 July 2014. dead.
  6. [Crockford's clerical directory]
  7. Web site: Parish of St John's Wood: Copy curate's licence for Michael Geoffrey Hare Duke MA for the parish church of St Stephen, Portland Town (St John's Wood Chapel). The National Archives. 27 December 2014.
  8. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/691144 SD8012 : St John with St Mark Church, Sunny Avenue, Bury
  9. Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689–2000 Bertie, D. M: Edinburgh T & T Clark
  10. Web site: Deaths & Obituaries. Third Order, Society of Saint Francis. 3 December 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20151208064239/http://tssf.org.uk/resources/publications/deaths-obituaries/. 8 December 2015.