John Macmillan

Religious Leader

1877 – 1956

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Who was John Macmillan?

John Victor Macmillan, OBE, DD was the fifth Bishop of Dover in the modern era who was later translated to Guildford.

Born into a publishing family and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at Farnham and was successively Resident Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, a Chaplain to the Forces during World War I, Vicar of Kew and then Archdeacon of Maidstone before his elevation to the episcopate.

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Born
1877
Profession
Education
  • Eton College
  • Magdalen College, Oxford
Died
1956

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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