词条 | Alexander Grier |
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Born in 1877,[2] Grier was educated at Denstone College and the University of Oxford, where he read history. From university Grier became a schoolmaster at Worksop College in 1900 and was ordained in 1903. He became headmaster of Worksop in 1905 and carried out a large and expensive building programme, including the construction of a new chapel. Between 1915 and 1919 he was headmaster of Bloxham School, successfully guiding the school through the First World War.[3] He then became headmaster of his old school before becoming the Rural Dean of Switzerland in 1931.[4] Grier then worked as Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth from 1936[5] to 1940, when he died.[6] References1. ^"Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain: together with members of the titled and non-titled contemporary establishment" Dewar, P.B (Ed): Stokesley, Burke's, 2001 {{ISBN|0-9711966-4-8}} {{S-start}}{{S-rel}}{{S-bef|before=Hubert Mitchell Rankin}}{{S-ttl|title=Provost of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth|years=1936 –1940 }}{{S-aft|after= James Lumsden Barkway }}{{End}}{{Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth}}{{Portal|Anglicanism}}{{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Grier, Alexander Roy Macgregor}}{{Scotland-bio-stub}}{{Christian-clergy-stub}}2. ^"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} 3. ^Old Bloxhamist Society, A History of Bloxham School (H.E. Boddy & Co. Ltd, Banbury, 1978), 83. 4. ^Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP,1940 Obituaries Section 5. ^"Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D.M: Edinburgh T & T Clark {{ISBN|0-567-08746-8}} 6. ^The Times, Saturday, Feb 03, 1940; pg. 9; Issue 48530; col D Obituaries 10 : 1877 births|1940 deaths|Alumni of the University of Oxford|English Anglo-Catholics|20th-century English Anglican priests|English schoolteachers|Headmasters of Bloxham School|People educated at Denstone College|Provosts of St Ninian's Cathedral, Perth|Anglo-Catholic clergy |
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