Charles Warr

Charles Laing Warr[1] KCVO[2] FRSE (1892–1969) was a Church of Scotland minister[3][4] and author[5] in the 20th century.

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.

[15] In 1932 he was appointed Honorary Chaplain (Pontifex Maximus) of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.

His proposers were Sir D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Arthur Crichton Mitchell, Edward Theodore Salvesen (Lord Salvesen), and Sir Thomas Henry Holland.

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