Edward S. Gleason, Episcopal clergyman Edward S. Gleason, an Episcopal clergyman who had been rector of St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Arlington and later a staff member of the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, died Oct. 31 at the Washington Home hospice. He was 80. The cause was a subdural hematoma from an accidental fall at his home in Washington, said a daughter, Eliza Kean. From 1987 to 1995, the Rev. Gleason was director of development, alumni and publications at the Episcopal seminary. He was rector at St. Peter's from 1962 to 1966. Edward Stone Gleason was a native of Newton, Mass., and a 1955 graduate of Harvard University. After Navy service, he received a bachelor of divinity degree in 1960 at the Episcopal Seminary, where he also received a doctor of divinity degree in 2000. He was headmaster of the private Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass., from 1971 to 1987. From 1995 to 2005, he was director of Forward Movement Publications in Cincinnati. His books included "Redeeming Marriage" (1988) and "Dying We Live" (1990). Survivors include his wife, Anne Vermillion Gleason, whom he married in 1955, of Washington; three daughters, Sarah Ross of New Milford, Conn., Persis Elkins of Minneapolis and Eliza Kean of Washington; a sister; and seven grandchildren.