Frederick Donaldson (priest)

Frederick Lewis Donaldson (10 September 1860 – 7 October 1953) was an Anglican priest, most notably Archdeacon of Westminster from 1937 to 1946.

[1] Donaldson was born in Ladywood, Birmingham, England on 10 September 1860 and educated at Christ Church Cathedral School and Merton College, Oxford, graduating B.A.

While Curate at St Nicholas Cole Abbey he married Louise Eagleston:[3] they had two sons and four daughters.

[7] In 1913, Donaldson led a deputation of Church of England clergy to the prime minister, H. H. Asquith, demanding women's suffrage.

[8] On 1 April 1925, Donaldson in an address as Canon of Westminster Abbey, listed his "seven social evils" as:[9] This list was sent to Mahatma Gandhi, who published a similar version in his weekly newspaper Young India on 22 October 1925.