The Rev Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE

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The Rev Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE's Biography

Forename(s): Bruce
Sex: Male
Decorations: MBE (1993)
Date of Birth: 28/1/1938 London

Foretitle(s): Rev Canon
Surname: DUNCAN
Style: The Rev Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE
Recreations: travel, walking, six grandchildren, music, cookery, bookbinding, Jungian psychology, growing clematis, gardens

The Rev Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE's Professional Career

Career: fndr dir: Children's Relief Int 1960-65, Northorpe Hall Tst 1960-65; asst curate St Bartholomew's and i/c St Mary of Bethany Armley Leeds (concurrently asst chaplain Armley Prison) 1967-79, hon curate St Mary the Less Cambridge 1969-70, chaplain Order of the Holy Paraclete and St Hilda's Sch Whitby 1970-71, chaplain to HM Ambassadors in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia (based Vienna) 1971-75, vicar Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him Who Hung Thereon Crediton 1975-86, rural dean Cadbury 1976-81, rector Crediton and Shobrooke 1982-86, residentiary canon Manchester Cathedral and fell Coll of Christ Manchester 1986-95, princ Sarum Coll (formerly Salisbury and Wells Theol Coll) 1995-2002, canon Salisbury Cathedral and prebendary Chesenbury with Chute 1995-2002, canon emeritus Salisbury Cathedral 2002-, Lazenby chaplain Univ of Exeter 2003-04; archbishops' advsr for foreign rels 1971-75, chm Diocesan Bd for Mission and Unity 1975-86, chm Bd of Int Conslts Trinity Inst for Christianity and Culture 2002-, hon asst priest Sarum St Martin Salisbury 2009-; devpt conslt: Scargill Movement 2009-, Lee Abbey Movement 2009-; chm Cathedral Fabric Ctee Manchester 1988-91; memb: Exeter Diocesan Synod 1975-86, Bishop's Cncl 1975-86, Diocesan Advsy Ctee Manchester 1987-93, Cathedral Fabric Advsy Ctee Bradford 1997-2002, Salisbury Diocesan Synod 1997-2002; conslt: Lee Abbey Movement 2009-, Scargill Movement 2009-; The Northorpe Hall Tst: tstee 1965-97, chm 1977-97, pres 1997-; memb Int Ctee of Vol Agencies Working for Refugees Geneva 1960-65, govr Hayward's Sch 1975-86, lectr S Manchester Coll Dip in Counselling 1986-95, dir Manchester Cathedral Devpt Tst 1986-95; memb Int Conslts Bd and memb Devpt Gp Awareness Fndn 2004-; memb Br Assoc of Psychological Type 1989 (memb Bd 1990-93); chm of tstees: St Luke's Coll Fndn 2006-09 (tstee 2005-09), Families for Children Adoption Agency 2006-10; Commissary in the UK for the Bishop of the North Eastern Caribbean & Aruba 2006; awarded Archbishop of Canterbury's Cross of St Augustine 2004; Hon DD Grad Theol Fndn Indiana 2002, hon fell Sarum Coll 2006-; FRSA 1989

The Rev Canon Bruce Duncan, MBE's Publications

Books and Publications: Children at Risk (ed A H Denny, 1968), Sich Selbst Verstehen (1993), Pray Your Way: Your Personality and God (1993); articles and chapters in numerous jls

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