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Dame Laurentia McLachlan
Born11 January 1866
Died23 August 1953
OccupationBenedictine nun
Known forAbbess of Stanbrook Abbey

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.

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Laurentia McLachlan

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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...

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McLachlan

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people Laurentia McLachlan (1866–1953), Scottish Benedictine nun Mark McLachlan (born 1990), American product & game designer Michael A. McLachlan (born...

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Patrick McGoohan

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playwright. McGoohan played George Bernard Shaw alongside Sir John Gielgud as Sydney Cockerell and Dame Wendy Hiller as Sister Laurentia McLachlan. In the...

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Patricia Routledge

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Hampstead Theatre production of The Best of Friends, she portrayed Dame Laurentia McLachlan. In 2008, she played Queen Mary in Royce Ryton's play Crown Matrimonial...

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Laurentius

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Urbino, and Librarian to Duke Guido Ubaldo under Pope Alexander VI Laurentia McLachlan, Benedictian nun, Great Britain, 1866–1953 In Byzantium: Joannes...

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Benedictines

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(1606-1633) Barbara Constable (1617-1674) Adèle Garnier [fr] (1838-1924) Laurentia McLachlan (1866-1953) Margit Slachta (or Schlachta, 1884–1974) Werburg Welch...

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The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God

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of Black Girl caused a rift in his long-term friendship with Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Abbess of Stanbrook; although eventually they reconciled. Shaw exacerbated...

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In This House of Brede

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based on fact" and credits the lives and sayings of Dame Laurentia McLachlan and Sister Mary Ann McArdle of Stanbrook Abbey. Godden's introduction also thanks...

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Felicitas Corrigan

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Her other works include: In a Great Tradition: Tribute to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, Abbess of Stanbrook (1956) George Thomas of Soho (1970) Siegfried...

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Dulcie Gray

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Whitemore's The Best of Friends, depicting the friendship between the nun Laurentia McLachlan (Gray), the antiquarian Sydney Cockerell (Denison), and the playwright...

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George Bernard Shaw

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H. G. Wells and G. K. Chesterton; the boxer Gene Tunney; the nun Laurentia McLachlan; and the art expert Sydney Cockerell. In 2007 a 316-page volume consisting...

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Wendy Hiller

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Berowne from the novel by P.D. James 1989 Ending Up Adela from the novel by Kingsley Amis 1991 The Best of Friends Laurentia McLachlan as Dame Wendy Hiller...

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John Gielgud

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representation of a friendship between Cockerell, Bernard Shaw and Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun. Gielgud had some trouble learning his lines;...

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Coatbridge

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the successful film of the same name in 2010. Coatbridge-born Dame Laurentia McLachlan was the Benedictine abbess of the Stanbrook Community whose correspondence...

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List of 1990s films based on actual events

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the friendship of George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, based on the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for...

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Hugh Whitemore

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UK in 1996. The Best of Friends (1987), about the friendship Dame Laurentia McLachlan, the Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, shared with George...

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Stanbrook Abbey

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erection of church.) Dame Cecilia A. Heywood Dame Joanna Jamieson Dame Laurentia McLachlan Dame Agnes More Dame Bridget More The first Roman Catholic archbishop...

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Michael Denison

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friendship between the antiquarian Sydney Cockerell (Denison), the nun Laurentia McLachlan (Gray) and the playwright Bernard Shaw (Thornton). Later in 1991...

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Sydney Cockerell

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Felicitas Corrigan, The Nun, the Infidel, and the Superman, with Dame Laurentia McLachlan and George Bernard Shaw. It was later dramatised by Hugh Whitemore...

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Agnes McLaren

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McLaren, by Janet Gottschalk.(2003) The Journeying Ladies: Agnes McLaren, Elizbeth Leseur, Edith Stein, Margaret Laurentia McLachlan by Joyce Sugg (1967)...

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Sidney Sager

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starring John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, and Patrick McGoohan as Sydney Cockerell, Laurentia McLachlan, and George Bernard Shaw respectively. This work was...

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Geologic time scale

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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-73103-0. OCLC 11574066. McCurdy, Edward (1938). The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Reynal...

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List of 2012 Summer Paralympics medal winners

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Ia details Sophie Christiansen  Great Britain Helen Kearney  Ireland Laurentia Tan  Singapore Individual championship test grade Ib details Joann Formosa...

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Orogeny

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belongs to the Transcontinental Proterozoic Provinces, which accreted to Laurentia (the ancient heart of North America) over the course of 200 million years...

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Geology of Tasmania

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block in the central Lachlan Orogen. In the time of the Rodinia supercontinent, southern VanDieland was next to southwestern Laurentia, part of the Grenville...

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Marcellus Formation

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(early Middle Devonian) Depositional Sequences And Bioevents In Eastern Laurentia: Appalachian Basin-wabash Platform Comparisons". 2003 Seattle Annual Meeting...

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2018 in paleontology

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Holm Dal Formation (Cambrian Series 3, Guzhangian) of North Greenland (Laurentia)". GFF. 140 (4): 306–317. Bibcode:2018GFF...140..306P. doi:10.1080/11035897...

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