George James Cosmo Douglas (1889 - 7 January 1973) was a Scottish

Episcopalian Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the l ...

priest during the 20th century. Douglas was born in 1889. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and ordained in 1914. He began his ordained ministry with a curacy at St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, after which he was a

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to the

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. After the war he became the priest in charge of St Andrew's and St George's Rosyth and then the

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of St John the Baptist's

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. He became Provost of the Cathedral of the Isles in 1949 and then, concurrently, Dean of Argyll and The Isles - posts he held until his death on 7 January 1973. He is buried in the churchyard of the Cathedral of the Isles.

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1889 births 1973 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Scottish Episcopalian clergy Provosts of the Cathedral of The Isles Deans of Argyll and The Isles Scottish military chaplains World War I chaplains {{Christian-clergy-stub