Charles Warr

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

Charles Laing Warr^[1] GCVO^[2] was a Church of Scotland minister^[3][4] and author ^[5] in the 20th century.^[6]

Warr was born into an ecclesiastical family^[7] on 24 July 1892 and educated at Glasgow Academy and 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. A sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem^[10] and an Honorary Chaplain to the King^[11][12] (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen).^[13] He died on 14 June 1969^[14] and was interred at Warriston Cemetery, but also has a panel on the family memorial in Rosneath Graveyard.^[15]

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