Word: hertford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and possessed of an immense curly grey beard, His Lordship has the high Salisbury forehead for which his father was famed. Long rector of Hatfield. Herts, seat of the Cecils, he became rural dean of Hertford in 1904, honorary chaplain to King Edward VII in 1909. Asquith appointed him in 1916 Bishop of Exeter, a vast diocese about which the noble Bishop motors and occasionally bicycles, his long square coattails flapping about his gaitered legs. An old Etonian and Oxonian, he drinks dozens of cups of tea daily, is conservative in politics, lofty high church...