William MacLeod (priest)

William Arthur MacLeod was an Anglican priest in the first half of the 20th century.

He was born in Duns in 1867[1] and educated at Loretto School and Selwyn College, Cambridge.

[2] He was ordained in 1892[3] and was initially a Curate at Christ Church, Greenwich.

[4] He was British Chaplain in St Petersburg from 1900 to 1908 and then Vicar of All Saints, South Acton until 1919 (including a spell as a Chaplain to the British Armed Forces during World War I) .

He was Vicar of Wakefield from 1919 until his death; and when that church became a cathedral, its first Provost.