Charles Laing Warr GCVO

Royal Victorian Order

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 was a Church of Scotland

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  minister and author

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  in the 20th century.

Warr was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1892 and educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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. He was commissioned

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 into the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

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 in 1914 and served during World War I

World War I

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. When peace returned he was an assistant minister at Glasgow Cathedral

Glasgow Cathedral

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. Later he was the minister of St Paul’s Greenock

Greenock

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 and then St Giles' Cathedral. He was Dean of the Thistle

Dean of the Thistle

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 and the Dean of the Chapel Royal

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 in Scotland from 1926 to 1969. A sub-prelate

Prelate

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 of the Order of St John of Jerusalem

Venerable Order of Saint John

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 and an Honorary Chaplain to the King

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 (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen

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). He died on 14 June 1969 and was interred at Warriston Cemetery

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, but also has a panel on the family memorial in Rosneath

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 Graveyard

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