Walter Lawrance

Who was Walter Lawrance?

Walter John Lawrance was a priest in the Church of England at the end of the 19th century and the very first part of the 20th.

Lawrance was born in 1840 and educated at St Paul’s and Trinity College, Cambridge, and ordained in 1864. His first position was as a curate in St Albans, after which he became the church's rector, the Archdeacon of St Albans and finally the first Dean of St Albans. An Honorary Chaplain to the Queen, he died on 12 August 1914.