Philip Lempriere

Philip Charles Lempriere (1890 - 1949) was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1959 to 1962.[1]

He was born on 12 April 1890,[2] educated at the University of Edinburgh;and ordained deacon in 1913, and priest in 1914.[3] He was then a Curate at Hamilton before being appointed a Chaplain to the Forces in 1917.[4] He was Rector of Bearsden from 1920 until 1923; St James, Glasgow, 1923–27; St Bride, Glasgow, 1927–35; Girvan, 1935–41; and Hamilton, 1941 to 1946.[5] He was Principal of Edinburgh Theological College from 1946 to 1948 and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1947 until his death on 26 February 1949.[6]

References

1. "Scottish Episcopal Clergy, 1689-2000" Bertie, D. M p596: Edinburgh: T & T Clark ISBN 0-567-08746-8
2. Bertie (Ibid) p331
3. Crockford's (London, OUP, 1929/30) p 782
4. London Gazette
5. "LEMPRIERE, Rev. Philip Charles", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 4 September 2015
6. "Deaths". The Times (51320). London, England. 3 March 1949. p. 6.