Hugh Douglas
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
About Hugh Douglas
Lived 1911 – 1986 (aged 74–75). Hugh Douglas was a christian minister.
Hugh Osborne Douglas was an eminent Church of Scotland minister in the 20th century.
He was born into an ecclesiastical family in Glasgow on 11 September 1911 and educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Glasgow. Licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Glasgow in 1935 he was Assistant Minister at Govan Old Parish Church until 1939. He was also Minister at St John's Leven, North Leith Parish Church and Dundee Parish Church (St Mary's) during his long career. He was Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from 1970 to 1971 and Dean of the Chapel Royal from 1974 until 1981.
An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen from 1959, he died on 4 January 1986.
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Who was Hugh Douglas?
Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland (1911–1986)
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Hugh Douglas was born in 1911.
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Hugh Douglas died in 1986.
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Hugh Douglas was a christian minister.
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