Douglas William John Reid (1934 - 2000) was
Dean of
Glasgow and Galloway from 1987 to 1997.
He was born on 15 February 1934, educated at
Edinburgh Theological College
The Edinburgh Theological College was founded in 1810 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Scottish Episcopal Church. In 1891 the college moved to Coates Hall in Rosebery Avenue where it gradually expanded to include residential accommodation ...
;and ordained
deacon
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.
Major Christian denominations, such as the Cathol ...
in 1963, and
priest
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in 1964. After a
curacy
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in
Ayr
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he was the
Rector of St James,
Glasgow
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from 1968 until 1973; and then of St Ninian,
Glasgow
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from 1973 to 1999.
He died on 18 March 2000.
[‘REID, Rev. Canon Douglas William John’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 201]
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References
1934 births
2000 deaths
Alumni of Edinburgh Theological College
20th-century Scottish Episcopalian priests
Deans of Glasgow and Galloway
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