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In Retrospect: Archbishop Henry R McAdoo (1916-1998)

“AN ESTIMABLE churchman” was the phrase used by the general editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to describe Archbishop Henry McAdoo as presented in my entry in the ODNB. I think the archbishop would have appreciated that accolade. While considerably junior to McAdoo in every sense of the word, I did get to know him quite well, largely through my work as Secretary of the General Synod Board of Education when he was Bishop of Ossory, and later during my time as Principal of the Church of Ireland College of Education, of which as Archbishop of Dublin he was Manager.

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Kenneth Milne

is a member of the Church of Ireland Working-group on Europe, Convenor of the European Affairs committee of the Irish Council of Churches, and Church of Ireland representative on the Thematic Reference Group on EU policy and legislation of the Conference of European Churches.