Charles MacAlester Copland was an Anglican priest.
Born into an ecclesiastical family on 5 April 1910 and educated at Denstone College, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Ripon College Cuddesdon, he was ordained in 1934 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 until 1959 when he became Provost of St John's Cathedral, Oban-a post he held for twenty years. Between 1977 and 1979 he was also Dean of Argyll and The Isles.
He died four months short of his hundredth year on 12 December 2009.
Notes
- 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
- Church Times Obituary
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| Preceded byGeorge Kennedy Buchanan Henderson | Dean of Argyll and The Isles 1977 – 1979 |
Succeeded byIan George MacQueen Wilson |
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