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.

References
  1. The Times, Monday 26 May 1958, Issue No 54,160 Col D "Obituary Very Rev J.L.White"
  2. "The Clergy List" London, Kelly's, 1913
  3. Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy
  4. The Times obituary 26.5.1958
  5. TNA Service Record WO374/73703


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