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 became a 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 became 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
[edit]- ^ The Very Rev. E. H. Brereton. The Times (London, England), Tuesday, 11 Dec 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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