The Rev David Haggan obituary

My father-in-law, David Haggan, who has died aged 91, was born into a modest Belfast background but liked to say that he had a privileged childhood.Growing up with two brothers and two sisters in Northern Ireland in the 1930s had something of the Famous Five about it: he got to shunt steam trains in the marshalling yard at the bottom of the road, courtesy of a relative who worked there. His parents, William, an office manager in a linen mill, and his wife, Essie (nee Neill), though Baptist and t