About: Alan Warren (priest)

Alan Christopher Warren (27 June 1932 – 22 December 2020) was an Anglican priest and author, in the second half of the 20th century. He was educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He trained for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge and was ordained deacon in 1957 and priest in 1958. During his time at Cambridge he was a choral scholar and was a violinist and violist in the Footlights and then in the Plymouth and Leicester Symphony orchestras. He later conducted several choirs and composed choral and chamber music. He was an M.C.C. cricketer and in 1968 he had brief appearances for the Leicestershire 2nd XI cricket club in the Second XI Championship, and played for Hunstanton and Leicestershire Golf Clubs. He began his career with curacies at St Paul's, Margate an