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The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes (23 July 1870 – 24 December 1931) was a
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Macinnes, Rennie Anglican bishops of Jerusalem People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge 20th-century Anglican bishops in the Middle East 1870 births 1931 deaths People educated at Windlesham House School
The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes (23 July 1870 – 24 December 1931) was a bishop
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in the Anglican Church
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in the first third of the twentieth century.
Biography
MacInnes was educated atWindlesham House School
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, Harrow
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and Trinity College, Cambridge
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. He was ordained
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in 1897. After a curacy
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at St Matthew's, Bayswater
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, he spent the rest of his career in the Middle East
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eventually becoming Bishop of Jerusalem.
Family
His father was the MP Miles MacInnes and his grandfather was the noted general John MacInnes./ref> His son
Angus Campbell MacInnes
Angus Campbell MacInnes (18 April 1901 – 29 April 1977) was an Anglican bishop in the third quarter of the twentieth century.
Angus Campbell MacInnes was born into a distinguished ecclesiastical family: his father, Rennie MacInnes, would be B ...
followed him into Holy Orders, eventually becoming Bishop of Bedford
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The title, which takes its name after the tow ...
before translation
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to his former See Jerusalem
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References
Further reading
''Notes for Travellers by road and rail in Palestine and Syria'' MacInnes, R: London,H.B Skinner & Co, 1926External links
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