John Lorimer Auden MC (23 August 1894 – 30 March 1959), was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War.
A number of clergy followed but Auden's father, Thomas Edward, was of a different mould enjoying a "Huntin', Shootin' and Fishin' existence, blasting away at stags each year in Mull in the Hebrides".
He was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the 6th (Territorial Force) Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment in 1913[2] and fought in the First World War.
Under heavy fire he reached the enemy's trench with a handful of men and lay under the parapet all day until dark.
[4]Auden married Joan Constance Moxham, daughter of a Swansea architect, at All Souls, Langham Place in July 1922.