Roderick Mackay

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Portal|Christianity}} ''' Roderick John Mackay ''' (20 July 1874 - 24 November 1956) was Dean of Edinburgh from 1939 to 1954.<ref name="johnmackay">{{cite web |title=Mackay, Very Rev. Roderick John, (20 July 1874–24 Nov. 1956)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-240163?rskey=M62xeA&result=13 |website=Who was Who 2018 |accessdate=7 October 2018 |language=en }}</ref>

He was educated at Hatfield College, Durham.<ref>Crockford's Clerical Directory 1929/30 p 802: Oxford, OUP, 1929</ref> He was awarded a Theological Scholarship in 1899, the Barry Scholarship in 1901, and won the Theological Prize the same year.<ref name=johnmackay /> He was also elected President of the Durham Union, serving for Michaelmas term of 1901.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=P. D. A. |title=A Short History of the Durham Union Society |date=1952 |publisher=Durham County Press |page=16}}</ref> He served curacies in Pallion, Greenock and Edinburgh.<ref>”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M p350 : Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}}</ref> He was Priest in Charge of St Matthew, Edinburgh from 1904 to 1909; Rector of St Martin, Edinburgh from 1909 to 1921 and of St Peter, Edinburgh from 1921 to 1954 (also Synod Clerk for the Diocese of Edinburgh from 1934 to 1939).

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