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'''Vernon Faithfull Storr''' (4 December 1869 – 25 October 1940) was an [[Anglican]] priest,<ref>"Vernon Faithfull Storr: a Memoir" Harris, G.H: London, [[SPCK]], 1943</ref> most notably [[Archdeacon of Westminster]] from 1931 to 1936.<ref>"The Canons: Cathedral Close Encounters" [[Trevor Beeson|Beeson, T]] p114: Canterbury, SCM, 2006 {{ISBN|0334040418}}</ref>

==Early life and education==
The son of Edward Storr (1840–1878), [[Indian Civil Service]] (a descendant of the [[goldsmith]] and [[silversmith]] [[Paul Storr]], through which his cousins included Rev. [[Frank Utterton]], [[Archdeacon of Surrey]] from 1906 to 1908, the obstetrician Sir [[Francis Champneys]], 1st Baronet and his brothers [[Basil Champneys]] and [[Weldon Champneys]], the artists [[Rex Whistler]] and [[Laurence Whistler]], and the academic [[Michael Lindsay, 2nd Baron Lindsay of Birker]]) and Emily Mary (née Faithfull),<ref>‘STORR, Canon Vernon Faithfull’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U217714, accessed 15 Oct 2017]</ref><ref>Paul Storr 1771-1844, Silversmith and Goldsmith, N. M. Penzer, Hamlyn Publishing Group, 1971, pp. 16-17</ref> Storr was born at [[Madras]]. He was educated at [[Clifton College]]<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p112: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948</ref> and [[The Queen's College, Oxford]]<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/oxfordmen188018900fostuoft#page/n413/mode/2up Oxford Men and their Colleges'' p413]</ref> -he was the Aubrey Moore Student in 1893. Storr was a [[Fellow]] of [[University College, Oxford]] from 1895 to 1899; and then again from 1905 to 1913.

==Ordained ministry==
Storr was [[ordained]] [[deacon]] in 1900, and priest in 1901.<ref>''[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1929–30'' p1238 London: Oxford University Press, 1929</ref> His first post was a [[Curate|curacy]] in [[Haslemere]]. He was [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Bramshott]] from 1902 to 1905; and of [[Headbourne Worthy]] from 1905 to 1910. He was a [[Canon (priest)|Canon Residentiary]] at [[Winchester Cathedral]] from 1910 to 1916; [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[Bentley]] from 1916 to 1921; and a [[Canon (priest)|Canon]] of [[Westminster Abbey|Westminster]] from 1921. Additionally in 1936 he became [[Rector (ecclesiastical)|Rector]] of [[St Margaret's, Westminster]] and [[Dean (religion)|Sub-Dean]] of [[Westminster Abbey|the abbey]].<ref>‘STORR, Canon Vernon Faithfull’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U217714, accessed 15 Oct 2017]</ref>

==Theistic evolution==

Vernon Storr was an advocate of [[theistic evolution]].<ref>[[Frederick Robert Tennant|Tennant, F. R]]. (1907). ''Reviewed Work: Development and Divine Purpose by Vernon F. Storr''. ''[[The Journal of Theological Studies]]'' 8 (31): 474–476.</ref><ref>[[Peter J. Bowler|Bowler, Peter J]]. (2001). ''Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain''. University of Chicago Press. p. 248. {{ISBN|0-226-06858-7}}</ref> In 1940, he wrote:

<blockquote>"There need be no opposition between evolution and theism. The old argument from Design, as Paley stated it, is undoubtedly dead; but evolution is not the enemy of design, but requires design for its adequate explanation."<ref>Storr, Vernon Faithfull. (1940). ''Freedom and Tradition: A Study of Liberal Evangelicalism''. Nisbet. p. 131</ref></blockquote>

==Selected works==

Carnegie was an author. Amongst others he wrote:<ref>[[British Library]] web site. Retrieved 17:05 [[GMT]] Sunday 14 October 2017</ref>

* [https://archive.org/details/developmentdivin00storrich ''Development and Divine Purpose''], 1906
* [https://archive.org/details/developmentofeng00storiala ''The Development of English Theology in the 19th Century, 1800–1860''], 1913
* [https://archive.org/details/christianityimmo00storuoft ''Christianity and Immortality''], 1918
* [https://archive.org/details/theproblemofthec00storuoft ''The Problem of the Cross''], 1919
* [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003902460 ''The Argument from Design''], 1920
* ''The Missionary Genius of the Bible'', 1924
* ''The Living God'', 1925
* ''From Abraham to Christ'',1927)
* ''Freedom and Tradition'', 1940

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://www.geni.com/people/Canon-Vernon-Storr/6000000009448561745 Geni]
*[http://pb.rcpsych.org/content/pbrcpsych/25/9/365.full.pdf Son's obituary]

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