Warre, Janetta, 1922-

Janetta Warre was born Jan. 26, 1922 in London, England. She grew up in Leicester and Scotland, and lived in India from 1946 to 1950. After returning to England, she married Colonel Anthony Warre in 1955. Together they had one daughter. Her interest in Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy began after reading the English translations of his work published in the mid 1960's. In the 1970's Mrs. Warre met Pierre Leroy, S.J., who later assisted Mrs. Warre in bringing the Teilhard de Chardin Centenary Exhibition from Paris and Brussels to London and Edinburgh in 1983. Mrs. Warre later arranged for Fr. Leroy to lecture on Teilhard's philosophy at Oxford and Georgetown universities..

Pierre Leroy, biologist and Jesuit, was born in La Madeline in northern France on Aug. 24, 1900. He completed his education at the Jesuit College in Lille and the Faculté des Sciences in Nancy, later working at the Museum of Natural History in Tianjin, China in the 1930's. From 1940 to 1946 he served as director of the Geobiological Institute in Beijing, where one of his colleagues was Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. S.J. After returning to Europe, Fr. Leroy was a researcher at the Collège de France and director of the Gif-sur-Yvette laboratory until 1970 and 1971 respectively. In addition to his biological research, Pierre Leroy wrote extensively on Teilhard de Chardin and edited for publication their correspondence, which appeared in 1976 under the title, Lettres familières de Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, mon ami: les dernières années, 1948-1955, and was followed by an English translation in 1980.