Christopher Laurence
John Harvard Christopher Laurence (15 April 1929 - 21 February 2025) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Archdeacon of Lindsey from 1985[1] until 1994.
Laurence was educated at Christ's Hospital, Trinity Hall, Cambridge and Westcott House, Cambridge.[2] He was an officer in the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment from 1948 to 1950. After a curacy at St Nicholas, Lincoln he was Vicar of St George, Scunthorpe from 1959 to 1973. He was St Hugh's Missioner for the Diocese of Lincoln from 1974 to 1979; and the Bishop of London's Director of Clergy Training, from 1979 to 1985.[3]
He died in 2025, aged 95.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Church news. The Times (London, England), Thursday, 27 December 1984; pg. 10; Issue 62021
- ^ Crockford's Clerical Directory 1959-60 London: Oxford University Press, 1959
- ^ 'LAURENCE, Ven. (John Harvard) Christopher', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 6 May 2017
- ^ "Church Times: "Deaths", 28 February 2025". Retrieved 1 March 2025.