Alan Campbell Don

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

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

From 1931 to 1941 he was chaplain and secretary to Cosmo Gordon Lang , Archbishop of Canterbury , and from 1936 to 1946 chaplain to King George VI. and the Speaker of the House of Commons. At the coronation of George VI. and Queen Elizabeth , on May 12, 1937, he carried the Archbishop's Cross of Canterbury.

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

He became known to a worldwide public when he led the wedding of the then Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip in 1947 and dignified his office 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 alienated from his wife. They only met once a week - on Friday - for lunch.

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