Obituary of Randal MacAlister, former Dean; born 31 December, 1941, in Ballinderry, Ireland; died 19 June, 2009, in Cortachy, Angus, aged 67.

The Very Reverend Randal George Leslie MacAlister was retired dean of the diocese of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

He was born in Ireland, a son of the Manse. His father was rector of Ballinderry, and Randal was a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. He was ordained in the Church of Ireland in 1964 and was appointed a curate in Portadown and then became rector of Keady with Amaghbreague.

When his church warden, a sergeant in the Royal Ulster Constabulary, was shot dead, he decided this was no place to bring up his two young sons and answered an advertisement for a living in Fife in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

• Full obituary by Michael Hare-Duke at The Scotsman.

• Filed under Obituaries, Scottish Christian News Monitor, Scottish Episcopal Church, Tayside, Fife + Central.