Victor de Waal

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Victor de Waal
Dean of Canterbury
Church Church of England
Installed1976
Term ended1986
Predecessor Ian White-Thomson
Successor John Simpson
Personal details
Born
Victor Alexander de Waal

(1929-02-02) 2 February 1929 (age 95)
Denomination Anglicanism
ParentsHendrik de Waal
Elisabeth von Ephrussi
SpouseEsther Aline Lowndes-Moir
Children Alex de Waal
Edmund de Waal
Thomas de Waal
Education Tonbridge School
Alma mater Pembroke College, Cambridge

Victor Alexander de Waal (born 2 February 1929) [1] is a British Anglican priest. He was the Dean of Canterbury from 1976 to 1986.

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Early life

Victor de Waal was born in Amsterdam, the son of Hendrik de Waal, a Dutch businessman, and Elisabeth of the Ephrussi family. His mother was born to a well-known Jewish family at the Ephrussi Palace in Vienna. Although she converted to Christianity this did not protect her from the racial policy of Nazi Germany. [2] Before the outbreak of World War II, the family moved to Britain and stayed there after the war, though retaining for many years their Dutch citizenship. [3]

The family came to live in Tunbridge Wells when he was a boy and he was educated at Tonbridge School and Pembroke College, Cambridge. His second cousin once removed was the Right Revd Hugo de Waal, Bishop of Thetford. [4]

Career

He served as chaplain of King's College, Cambridge from 1959 to 1963 and the University of Nottingham from 1963 to 1969, [5] and chancellor of Lincoln Cathedral.

From 1976 to 1986, he served as the Dean of Canterbury. [6] [7]

He helped with the research into his family history by his son, Edmund de Waal, which culminated in the book The Hare with Amber Eyes . [8]

De Waal is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Birmingham. [9]

Personal life

He married Esther Aline Lowndes-Moir, author (as Esther de Waal) of books on spirituality, especially Celtic. Among their sons are John de Waal, a barrister; Alex de Waal (born 1963), a writer on Africa; Edmund de Waal (born 1964), a ceramic artist; and Thomas de Waal (born 1966), a writer. He later separated from his wife. [10]

Works

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