Charles Warr

Charles Laing Warr[1] KCVO[2] FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland minister[3][4] and author[5] in the 20th century.[6]

Rev. Charles Warr (right) with the Duke of York (centre) and Sir Francis Grant, Lord Lyon King of Arms (left) and proceeding to St Giles' Cathedral in 1933

Life

Warr was born on 20 May 1892, the second son of the Reverend Alfred Warr, sometime minister of Rosneath in Dunbartonshire, and his wife, Christian Grey Laing.[7] He was christened on 24 July 1892.

He was educated at Glasgow Academy and then studied Divinity at the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 and served during World War I.[8] When peace returned he was an assistant minister at Glasgow Cathedral. Later he was the minister of St Paul's Greenock and then St Giles' Cathedral. He was Dean of the Thistle[9] and the Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland from 1926 to 1969. He was appointed an Extra Chaplain to His Majesty in 1926[10] and Chaplain-in Ordinary in 1934.[11] He was a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem[12] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King[13][14] (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen).[15]

In 1936 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Arthur Crichton Mitchell, Edward Theodore Salvesen (Lord Salvesen), and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.[16]

He died on 14 June 1969[17] and was cremated at Warriston Crematorium, where a memorial panel exists, but also has a panel on the family memorial in Rosneath Graveyard.[18]

Publications
  • The Unseen Host: Stories of the Great War (1916) and sixteen later editions up to 2012
  • Echoes of Flanders (1917) and eleven editions up to 2012
  • Alfred Warr of Rosneath (1917) a biography of his father
  • The Black Chanter (1921)
  • John Knox: A Criticism
  • Principal Caird (1926)
  • The Call of the Island (1929)
  • Scottish Sermons and Addresses (1930)
  • The Presbyterian Tradition (1933)
  • Bruce (1936)
  • The Glimmering Landscape (1960)

Family

In 1918 he married Christian Lawson Aitken Tatlock (d.1961).

They had no children but were guardians of the Scottish sculptor Elizabeth Dempster.[19]

References
  1. NPG details
  2. London Gazette
  3. MCOE Archived 12 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. National Library of Scotland
  5. Amongst others he wrote "The Unseen Host", 1916; "Alfred Warr of Rosneath", 1917; "Principal Caird", 1926; "The Call of the Island", "The Presbyterian Tradition", 1933; and "The Glimmering Landscape", 1960 > British Library website accessed 19:18 GMT 11 March 2011
  6. Open Library
  7. "Who was Who" 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 071363457X
  8. Historic Scotland
  9. Dean of the Thistle, The Times, 27 February 1926; p. 12; Issue 44207; col G
  10. "No. 14214". The Edinburgh Gazette. 16 March 1926. p. 319.
  11. "No. 34110". The London Gazette. 4 December 1934. p. 7759.
  12. Order of St. John, The Times, 22 January 1943; p. 2; Issue 49433; col E
  13. His Majesty's Household Appointments by the King, Full List of Officers, The Times, 21 July 1936; p. 11; Issue 47432; col A
  14. His Majesty's Household Appointments by the King, Full List of Officers, The Times, 2 March 1937; p. 9; Issue 47623; col A
  15. The Times, 20 April 1953; p. 4; Issue 52600; col C University News
  16. Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  17. Very Rev C L Warr Dean of the Thistle, The Times, 16 June 1969; p. 10; Issue 57587; col F
  18. Stone 78
  19. Ewan, Elizabeth; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Siân; Pipes, Rose, eds. (2006). Dempster, Elizabeth Strachan. p. 94. ISBN 9780748632930. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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