John White (provost of St Edmundsbury)
John Lawrence White was an Anglican priest in the 20th century.[1]
He was born in 1885 and ordained in 1910.[2] He held curacies in Birmingham, Brixton and Luton after which he served as a chaplain to the British Armed Forces during World War I. He was appointed in February,1917,and served in King George Hospital,London and,from December,1917,in Egypt[3]surviving the torpedoing of the troopship he was travelling on[4] His work was regarded as ‘satisfactory ‘. He was demobilised in March 1920[5]Later he was Vicar of St. George's Church, Edgbaston and then of St Nicholas, Nuneaton. In 1940 he became Provost of St Edmundsbury, a post he held until his death on 24 May 1958. There is a commemorative plaque in the Cathedral cloisters.
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