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The Reverend Percy Ewart Warrington (1889–1961) was an educationist and evangelical Church of England clergyman. He was vicar of Monkton Combe for forty-three years from 1918 to 1961 and the founder of an educational trust, Allied Schools, in the 1920s which founded and purchased a number of private schools in Britain and a girls' school in Kenya. He also founded homes for the elderly which continue today as the Warrington Homes Ltd. He was described as a 'financier in a surplice'.