Thomas Hannay (10 June 1887 - 31 January 1970) was an

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Biography

Hannay was educated at the

University of Liverpool , mottoeng = These days of peace foster learning , established = 1881 – University College Liverpool1884 – affiliated to the federal Victoria Universityhttp://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/2004/4 University of Manchester Act 200 ...

and

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

and ordained in 1910. He began his career with a

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after which he with the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in

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. In 1927 he came to the

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and was its Principal from 1933 to 1941. He became Bishop of Argyll and The Isles in 1942, and in 1952

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; retiring from both posts in 1962.''Primus Of Episcopal Church To Retire''

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Monday, 19 February 1962; pg. 6; Issue 55319; col B

References

1887 births Alumni of the University of Liverpool Alumni of Queens' College, Cambridge Alumni of the College of the Resurrection Bishops of Argyll and The Isles 20th-century Scottish Episcopalian bishops Bishops of Edinburgh Primuses of the Scottish Episcopal Church 20th-century Anglican archbishops Holders of a Lambeth degree 1970 deaths {{Anglican-bishop-stub