Victor Alexander de Waal (born 2 February 1929)[1] is a British Anglican priest.
[3] The family came to live in Tunbridge Wells when he was a boy and he was educated at Tonbridge School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.
[4] He served as chaplain of King's College, Cambridge from 1959 to 1963 and the University of Nottingham from 1963 to 1969,[5] and chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral.
[6][7] He helped with the research into his family history by his son, Edmund de Waal, which culminated in the book The Hare with Amber Eyes.
[8] De Waal is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Birmingham.