The Very Rev

Very Reverend

The Very Reverend is a style given to certain religious figures.*In the Roman Catholic Church, by custom, priests who hold positions of particular note: e.g...

  Hugh Osborne Douglas KCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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, CBE

CBE

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, DD

Doctor of Divinity

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, TD

Territorial Decoration

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, LLD

Legum Doctor

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  was an eminent
Church of Scotland

Church of Scotland

The Church of Scotland, known informally by its Scots language name, the Kirk, is a Presbyterian church, decisively shaped by the Scottish Reformation....

  minister in the 20th century.

He was born into an ecclesiastical family in Glasgow

Glasgow

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 on 11 September 1911 and educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow

University of Glasgow

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. Licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Glasgow in 1935 he was Assistant Minister at Govan

Govan

Govan is a district and former burgh now part of southwest City of Glasgow, Scotland. It is situated west of Glasgow city centre, on the south bank of the River Clyde, opposite the mouth of the River Kelvin and the district of Partick....

 Old Parish Church until 1939. He was also Minister at St John’s Leven

Leven

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, North Leith Parish Church

North Leith Parish Church

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 and Dundee Parish Church (St Mary’s) during his long career. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

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 from 1970 to 1971 and Chapel Royal

Dean of the Chapel Royal

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 from 1974 until 1981. An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen

Honorary Chaplain to the Queen

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, he died on 4 January 1986.