Charles Laing WarrNPG details KCVOLondon Gazette FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland ministerMCOE National Library of Scotland and authorAmongst 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 in the 20th century.Open Library
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."Who was Who" 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, 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.Historic Scotland 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 ThistleDean of the Thistle, The Times, 27 February 1926; p. 12; Issue 44207; col G and the Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland from 1926 to 1969. He was appointed an Extra Chaplain to His Majesty in 1926 and Chaplain-in Ordinary in 1934. He was a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of JerusalemOrder of St. John, The Times, 22 January 1943; p. 2; Issue 49433; col E and an Honorary Chaplain to the KingHis Majesty's Household Appointments by the King, Full List of Officers, The Times, 21 July 1936; p. 11; Issue 47432; col AHis Majesty's Household Appointments by the King, Full List of Officers, The Times, 2 March 1937; p. 9; Issue 47623; col A (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen).The Times, 20 April 1953; p. 4; Issue 52600; col C University News
In 1932 he was appointed Honorary Chaplain (Pontifex Maximus) of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.
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.
He died on 14 June 1969Very Rev C L Warr Dean of the Thistle, The Times, 16 June 1969; p. 10; Issue 57587; col F and was cremated at Warriston Crematorium, where a memorial panel exists, but also has a panel on the family memorial in Rosneath Graveyard.Stone 78
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.
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