Monsignor Lawrence Leslie McReavey influenced generations of priests trained at Ushaw College where he taught for forty-five years and was nicknamed 'Bomb'. In addition to his work for the preparatory Commission of the Second Vatican Council and as a peritus, he was a highly respected Canon Lawyer who worked on the 1938 revision of the Code of Canon Law. For his monumental service to the local and wider church, he was, in 1989, appointed a Protonotary Apostolic. He died the following year aged eighty-seven.