Eric Brereton
Eric Hugh Brereton, OBE (1889 - 1962)[1] was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1959 to 1962.[2]
He was born on 17 November 1889,[3] educated at Durham University;and ordained deacon in 1912, and priest in 1913. Following curacies in Leith and at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh he was a Chaplain to the Forces from 1915 to 1919.[4] He was then a Chaplain to the Territorial Army[5] until 1940. He was Rector of Christ Church, Morningside from 1921 until 1927;Vice-Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow from 1927 until 1933; and Rector of St Margaret Glasgow from 1933 until[6] his death on 8 December 1962.[7]
References
- ↑ The Very Rev. E. H. Brereton. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, Dec 11, 1962; pg. 12; Issue 55571
- ↑ ”Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000” Bertie, D.M p596: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
- ↑ Bertie (Ibid) p187
- ↑ Crockfords (London, OUP, 1929/30) p 147
- ↑ London Gazette
- ↑ Glasgow Herald
- ↑ ‘BRERETON, Very Rev. Eric Hugh’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 4 Sept 2015
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Glasgow and Galloway 1959–1962 |
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