Education
Born into a manufacturing Dundee family, the son of Robert Bogle Don and Lucy Flora Campbell, he was educated at Rugby and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Born into a manufacturing Dundee family, the son of Robert Bogle Don and Lucy Flora Campbell, he was educated at Rugby and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Deciding the family business was not for him, studied for ordination at Cuddesdon College before becoming a curate in Redcar followed by an incumbency in Yorkshire. There then followed a 10-year period as provost of the cathedral in his native city. From 1931 until 1941 he was secretary to Cosmo Gordon Language and became a chaplain to King George V. Already the speaker’s chaplain in 1941 he became a canon of Westminster Abbey as rector of Saint Margaret"s, Westminster, the parish church of the Houses of Parliament.
This was followed in 1946 by elevation to the post of, a post he was to hold for 13 years-a period which included the Queen"s Coronation
He died on 3 May 1966.
