Frederic Lamond (Wiccan)

Frederic Lamond
Born	1931
Occupation	Computer technician; Writer; Wiccan priest
Spouse(s)	Gillian, later Hildegard

Frederic Lamond (born 1931) who also goes under the craft name Robert, is a prominent English Wiccan. He was an early member of the Gardnerian tradition having been initiated into the Bricket Wood coven in 1957. He has since become involved in a number of Pagan organisations, including the Fellowship of Isis, and has participated in the interfaith movement. He has written a number of books on the subject of Wiccan theology and history.

Lamond was born an only child and when he was only two years old his parents divorced, leaving him to live with his maternal grandparents. After the start of World War II, his grandmother, who was of Jewish ethnicity, took him to live in Switzerland, which was then one of the only neutral countries in Europe.

Lamond was raised in a relatively free religious environment and was not forced to follow any religion. His grandmother had repeated on numerous occasions that "all religious dogmas are lies!". However, she still sent him to Protestant catechism to learn Biblical history when he was thirteen. She believed it necessary for any educated European. He would later remark that whilst he admired Jesus Christ, he did not think him any more holy than any other good men in history — and he disliked the God that was presented in the Old Testament. Nonetheless, he received his Christian confirmation at fifteen and spent his next two years at an Anglican boarding school, in England. It was there he realised his beliefs did not agree with those of Christianity and ceased identifying as a Christian.

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