Ernest Denny Logie Danson (14 June 18809 December 1946) was an

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bishop in the first half of the 20th century.

Biography

He was born into a distinguished clerical family — his father was

Myers Danson James Myers Danson (1845 in Carnforth – 1909 in Aberdeen) was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1907 to 1909. He was educated at Ingleton School and Trinity College, Dublin and ordained deacon in 1871 and priest in 1873. His first post ...

, Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney — on 14 June 1880 and educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond and Aberdeen University. He was ordained deacon in 1906 and priest in 1907 and began his career with a curacy at

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. From 1906 he was a

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in Southeast Asia eventually becoming

Bishop of Labuan and Sarawak The Bishop of Kuching is the Ordinary (officer), ordinary of the Anglicanism, Anglican Diocese of Kuching in the Church of the Province of South East Asia. The bishop exercises episcopal authority over Anglican churches in the Malaysian state of ...

. He then returned to England as a

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of Carlisle Cathedral and

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(both 1931–1938) before being appointed Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh and an Assistant Bishop of Edinburgh. He was then elected diocesan Bishop of Edinburgh in 1939. Four years later he was elected Primus of Scotland; ill-health caused him to resign as Primus in May 1946, and to resign his See in September before his death on 9 December 1946.''Obituary Dr. Logie Danson'' The Times Thursday, 12 December 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50632; col D

References

1880 births People educated at Glenalmond College Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Anglican bishops of Labuan and Sarawak Provosts of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal) Bishops of Edinburgh Primuses of the Scottish Episcopal Church 20th-century Anglican bishops in Asia 1946 deaths British expatriates in Malaysia Scottish Anglican missionaries Anglican missionaries in Malaysia Anglican missionaries in Singapore People of British Borneo {{Christian-clergy-stub