Donald Coggan
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The Most Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Coggan PC |
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| Archbishop of Canterbury | |
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| Installed | 1974 |
| Term ended | 1980 |
| Predecessor | Michael Ramsey |
| Successor | Robert Runcie |
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| Born | 9 October 1909 Highgate, London, England |
| Died | 17 May 2000 (aged 90) Winchester, Hampshire, England |
| Buried | Canterbury Cathedral |
| Spouse | Jean Braithwaite (1909–2005) |
| Children | 2 |
Frederick Donald Coggan, Baron Coggan, PC (9 October 1909–17 May 2000) was the 101st Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980. As Archbishop of Canterbury, he "revived morale within the Church of England, opened a dialogue with Rome and supported women's ordination". He had previously been successively the Bishop of Bradford and the Archbishop of York.
Donald Coggan (he dropped the Frederick) was born on 9 October 1909 at 32 Croftdown Road, Highgate, Middlesex, the youngest child of Cornish Arthur Coggan, at one time national president of the Federation of Meat Traders and mayor of St Pancras, London, and his wife, Fanny Sarah Chubb.
Cornish Arthur Coggan “seems to have taken little interest in his family”. Therefore, their three children were raised by their mother. During the First World War she took them to Burnham-on-Sea, in Somerset, for safety. It was there that young Donald was influenced by Ashley King, an evangelist who conducted missions for children on the beach. After the war ended, the family returned to London, but “the strains and stresses of the family’s life were so great that Donald became physically ill.” This illness rendered him unable to attend school. Therefore, Donald was taught by a neighbour for four years. The neighbor helped Donald “develop what was to become a life-long love of music.”
At the age of 14, Donald was well enough to enter Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood. After his confirmation in 1924, he felt drawn to Holy Orders. “His sisters had encouraged him by introducing him to an evangelical church, and these early influences never left him.” In the school, Donald studied Latin, Greek, and Hebrew seriously.
Having shown an unusual aptitude for languages, Coggan was awarded an open exhibition to St. John's College, Cambridge. He entered St John’s College in 1928 with an open exhibition, later upgraded to a full scholarship.
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