Richard Kerrin
Richard Elual Kerrin (4 July 1898 – 4 November 1988) was Dean of Aberdeen and Orkney from 1956 to 1969.[1]
The son of a clergyman,[2] he was educated at Robert Gordon's College and the University of Aberdeen.[3] After wartime service with the Artists' Rifles he was ordained in 1923. Following a curacy at Old Saint Paul's, Edinburgh he held Incumbencies at Inverurie, Stirling[4] and Fraserburgh He then served as Rector of St John's Aberdeen from 1954 to 1969 during which he was appointed as Dean of the Diocese between 1954 and 1969. After retirement from the full-time ministry, he served at Alford until ill-health forced him to retire permanently.[5][6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ ‘KERRIN, Very Rev. Richard Elual’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 26 Oct 2013
- ^ cwgc
- ^ "The University of Aberdeen Review" Vol V (1917-18) p50: Aberdeen, University of Aberdeen Pres, 1918
- ^ Holy Trinity, Stirling
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1947/48 p387 Oxford, OUP, 1947
- ^ "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" p517 Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
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