Background
RUNCIE, and Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie was born on October 2, 1921. Son of Robert Dalziel and Anne Runcie.
RUNCIE, and Robert Alexander Kennedy Runcie was born on October 2, 1921. Son of Robert Dalziel and Anne Runcie.
Merchant Taylors’, Crosby, Brasenose College, Oxford, and Westcott House, Cambridge.
Served in Scots Guards, World World War World War II Deacon 1950. Priest 1951. Curate, All Saints, Gosforth 1950-1952.
Chaplain, Westcott House, Cambridge 1953-1954, Vice-Principal 1954-1956. Fellow’, Dean and Assistant Tutor, Trinity Hall, Cambridge 1956-1960.
Vicar of Cuddesdon and Principal of Cuddesdon Theological College 1960-1970.
Canon and Prebendary of Lincoln 1969. Bishop of Saint Albans 1973-1980. Archbishop of Canterbury 1980-1991.
Married Angela Rosalind Turner in 1957.