Malcolm Clark (priest)
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Malcolm Aiken Clark, (3 October 1905 – 1 December 2002) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1982 to 1985. He was educated at the
High School of Glasgow The High School of Glasgow is a Private schools in the United Kingdom, private, co-educational day school, day school in Glasgow, Scotland. The original High School of Glasgow was founded as the Cathedral school, choir school of Glasgow Cathedra ...
and
Lichfield Theological College Lichfield Theological College was founded in 1857 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England. Uniquely at its foundation, the college did not require a degree, and non-graduates made up the majority of its ordinands. The college ...
. and He was
ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are Consecration in Christianity, consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the religious denomination, denominationa ...
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in 1934''
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1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976
and
priest A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deity, deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in parti ...
in 1935. After a
curacy A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' () of souls of a parish. In this sense, ''curate'' means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy who are ass ...
at St John,
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he held incumbencies at All Saints
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, and All Saints,
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. During
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he was a
Chaplain A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intellige ...
in the
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. Afterwards he was
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at St Mary,
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and then Rector of the Good Shepherd,
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before his time as
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. Like his motto ‘Sure and Steadfast’ he was still conducting services well into his 90s at St Vincent’s Chapel in
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. His wife was called Chicinna and he had three
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.


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1905 births 2002 deaths People educated at the High School of Glasgow Alumni of Lichfield Theological College 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian priests Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Deans of Edinburgh Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Royal Air Force chaplains World War II chaplains 20th-century Scottish antiquarians {{UK-Anglican-clergy-stub