Lawrence Jackson (priest)

Lawrence Jackson (22 March 1926 – 15 November 2002) was an eminent Anglican priest in the 20th century.

A Yorkshireman, he trained for the priesthood at King's College London (spending his final year at St Boniface College, Warminster) and was ordained in 1951. He was a Curate at St Margaret's Church, Leicester and then Vicar of Wymeswold. After further incumbencies at St James the Greater, Leicester and Holy Trinity, Coventry, he was appointed Provost of Blackburn in 1973. He retired in 1992 and died a decade later.