Tributes to Lawrence Warrell - (11 Feb 1933 – 18 July 2020)

12 August 2020

It with deep sadness that we confirm the passing of Lawrence Warrell, who died on 18 July 2020.

Lawrence began his career in pensions in the 1950’s with Oxfordshire County Council, where he started as a trainee.  He eventually became the Payroll and Pensions manager, covering a payroll of 25,000 plus employees and pensioners.  In 1974, Lawrence moved to Cheshire where he became Assistant County Treasurer (Payroll and Pensions) with a payroll in excess of 60,000.   He also took on the role of payroll examiner for the Association of Payroll and Superannuation Administrators (APSA), for the nationally recognised APSA qualification.   It was during this time that Lawrence and Peter Blackhurst, previous APSA and BPMA Director and Chairperson became good friends.

Lawrence was employed by Trevor Lakin of the British Payroll Managers Association (BPMA), to become the principal author of the then BPMA Diploma course in payroll, part one, moving on to provide a supporting role in the content creation of part two of the Diploma.  The Diploma has continued to grow in size and strength and is now known as the CIPP’s hugely successful Foundation Degree in Payroll Management. He also became a course tutor and member of the BPMA and a Fellow member of APSA, both of which ultimately became the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals, of which he was also a Fellow member until his passing.

In 2004 Lawrence Warrell was the first ever recipient of the CIPPs Special Recognition Award.