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| | Guardian | The Very Rev David Steel |
 | | The Very Rev Dr David Steel, who has died aged 92, was a leading influence in the Church of Scotland during the 1960s and 1970s, and moderator of its General Assembly in 1974-75. |
 | | David Steel grew up in Peterhead, where his father managed the north-eastern grocery operations of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society. |
 | | Yet although Steel had a prickly streak and combative style, he had gifts as a conciliator and, as moderator, was not only studiously fair but long-suffering in helping the procedurally inept or sincerely confused. |
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