A.M. Allchin

Allchin, Arthur MacDonald. b. Acton, London, 20 April 1930; d. Oxford, 23 December 2010. Donald, as he was always called, was the youngest of four children of Frank MacDonald Allchin, a physician, and Louise Maude, née Wright. He was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in modern history and proceeded to take a BLitt, published as The Silent Revolution (1958), a history of 19th-century Anglican religious communities which became the standard study of the topic. A scholarship enabled him to spend much of 1955 in Greece and the Middle East which laid the foundation for his later expertise in the history, theology and practice of Orthodoxy. Priestly...