A quiet but effective priest , his final professional appointment was as Dean of Westminster . He is remembered for a last minute change in the Abbey 's Armistice Day service in 1938 after Kristallnacht when he included a prayer for the Jewish people ' in their trouble . ' The Deanery was destroyed in the 1941 Blitz and it is said the King and Queen offered him alternative accommodation at Buckingham Palace but he found a new place to live close to the Abbey
Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht
Paul de Labilliere