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Dame Laurentia McLachlan, OSB, née Margaret McLachlan, (11 January 1866 – 23 August 1953) was a Scottish Benedictine nun, Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, and an authority on church music. She became posthumously known to a wide public when portrayed on the stage in a 1988 play, The Best of Friends .
Dame Laurentia McLachlan Abbess of Stanbrook. When after some delay the card reached Bernard Shaw, he immediately read it as an announcement of her death, and promptly wrote a letter of...
Dame Laurentia McLachlan. (1866-1953) b. Lanarkshire, Scotland. . d. Worcester, England. Among the five figures chosen to represent 1000 years of ‘the inspired Christian life’ in Worcester Cathedral’s Window of the Millennium is that of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, abbess of Stanbrook 1931-53.
Jan 20, 2016 · Dame Laurentia McLachlan and her community pioneered the restoration of Gregorian chant in England, and she was a leading authority on music and medieval manuscripts. Her work was recognized by...
Name variations: Dame Laurentia McLachlan. Born Margaret McLachlan on January 11, 1866, in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, England; died on August 23, 1953, in Worcester, England; daughter of Henry McLachlan and Mary (McAleese) McLachlan; received education at Stanbrook Abbey under Benedictine clergy; never married; no children.
Dame Laurentia McLachlan, OSB, née Margaret McLachlan, (11 January 1866 – 23 August 1953) was a Scottish Benedictine nun, Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, and an authority on church music. She became posthumously known to a wide public when portrayed on the stage in a 1988 play, The Best of Friends.
At the time of her death in 1953, it was said of Dame Laurentia McLachlan, theABB ESS OF STANBROOK, that '‘she gave herself to everyone who needed her help; she was a person without...
