Philip Lempriere
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Philip Charles Lempriere (1890 - 1949) was Dean of Glasgow and Galloway from 1959 to 1962.[1]
He was born on 12 April 1890,[2] educated at the University of Edinburgh;and ordained deacon in 1913, and priest in 1914.[3] He was then a Curate at Hamilton before being appointed a Chaplain to the Forces in 1917.[4] He was Rector of Bearsden from 1920 until 1923; St James, Glasgow, 1923–27; St Bride, Glasgow, 1927–35; Girvan, 1935–41; and Hamilton, 1941 to 1946.[5] He was Principal of Edinburgh Theological College from 1946 to 1948 and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1947 until his death on 26 February 1949.[6]
