Rennie MacInnes

The Rt Rev Rennie MacInnes (23 July 1870 – 24 December 1931) was a bishop in the Anglican Church in the first third of the twentieth century.^[1]

From left to right are, Sir Edmund Allenby, Rennie MacInnes, Malcolm Donald Murray, HRH the Duke of Connaught, Major General J S M Shea, Sir E S Bulfin, General Sir Harry Chauvel, Sir Philip Chetwode
(March 19, 1918).

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Biography

MacInnes was educated at Windlesham House School, Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.^[2] He was ordained in 1897.^[3] After a curacy at St Matthew's, Bayswater,^[4] he spent the rest of his career in the Middle East eventually becoming Bishop of Jerusalem.^[5][6]

Family

His father was the MP Miles MacInnes and his grandfather was the noted general John MacInnes.^[7] His son Angus Campbell MacInnes followed him into Holy Orders, eventually becoming Bishop of Bedford before translation to his former See Jerusalem.