Charles Warr

Charles Laing Warr GCVO was a Church of Scotland minister and author in the 20th century.

Warr was born into an ecclesiastical family on 24 July 1892 and educated at Glasgow Academy and the University of Edinburgh. He was commissioned into the 9th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1914 and served during World War I. When peace returned he was an assistant minister at Glasgow Cathedral. Later he was the minister of St Paul’s Greenock and then St Giles' Cathedral. He was Dean of the Thistle and the Dean of the Chapel Royal in Scotland from 1926 to 1969. He was appointed an Extra Chaplain to His Majesty in 1926 and Chaplain-in Ordinary in 1934. He was a sub-prelate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and an Honorary Chaplain to the King (and later an Honorary Chaplain to the Queen). He died on 14 June 1969 and was interred at Warriston Cemetery, but also has a panel on the family memorial in Rosneath Graveyard.

Warr was the guardian of the Scottish sculptor Elizabeth Dempster.