Alan Don

Alan Campbell Don KCVO ( born January 3, 1885 in Dundee, † May 3, 1966 ) was a Scottish clergyman and Dean of Westminster.

Don grew up in Dundee. He attended Rugby School and then studied theology at the University of Oxford ( Magdalen College).

In the period from 1931 to 1941 he was chaplain and secretary of Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury, and from 1936 to 1946 Kaplan King George VI. and the speaker of the lower house. At the coronation of George VI. and Queen Elizabeth, on May 12, 1937, he carried the cross of the archbishop of Canterbury.

From 1941 to 1946 he was rector of St. Margaret 's Church at Westminster and thus the canons of the chapter of Westminster Abbey. In 1946 he was appointed Dean of Westminster, which service he provided to 1959.

One global public he was known when he the wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth initiated in 1947 with Prince Philip and dignified his office knew on June 2, 1953 during the coronation of the young Queen Elizabeth II.

He was a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery.

Don was married, but lived estranged from his wife. They met only once a week - on Friday - for a lunch.

Swell

• Official homepage of Westminster Abbey (version of 11 October 2008 at the Internet Archive )
• Official website of the National Portrait Gallery with pictures of Dr. Don Don Alan Campbell (1885-1966), Dean of Westminster

• Anglican cleric ( 20th century)
• Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
• Briton
• Born 1885
• Died in 1966
• Man