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Jul 06, 1858 Died on 24 Feb 1943 (aged 84)
Scottish bishop
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About Arthur Maclean
- Arthur John MacLean (6 July 1858 – 24 February 1943) was an Anglican bishop in the later decades of the 19th century and first four of the 20th century.Maclean was born into an ecclesiastical family.
- His father, the Rev Arthur J.
- Macleane (he later dropped the final "e" from the surname), began a career in the East India Company before returning to England, obtaining a degree Trinity College Cambridge, being ordained and securing appointment as inaugural Principal of Brighton College (1846–51).
- He held two subsequent headships and was editor of various Classical texts, especially Horace and Juvenal.Maclean was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge.
- He was ordained in 1882 and he was head of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission from 1886 to 1891 and then Rector of Portree.
- In 1882 he became Dean of Argyll and The Isles and after this was Rector of Selkirk before a spell as Principal of the Scottish Episcopal Theological College and then a nearly 40 years episcopacy as Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness.
- Late in his life he was additionally elected Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church.
- An eminent author, he died on 24 February 1943.
