Word: marmion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field...
...bluff and loyal clansman's life in George III's Scotland and collected the Border ballads he loved. At 33 he published his own ballad. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and it sold an unheard-of 40,000 copies. After such narrative poems as Marmion and The Lady of the Lake (which started a great tourist rush for the Scottish moors and highlands), Scott started turning out his medieval romances and his beloved tales of bygone borderers and buccaneers...
Without being conspicuous about it, Gresham and Bill Marmion of Houston stuck pretty close together and helped each other out as brothers are supposed...
When their father and mother both had major operations that put a strain on the family budget, Gresham Marmion, the elder of the two, dropped out of high school and took a job so that brother Bill could finish. Bill went on to Rice Institute, where he studied engineering before deciding in his second year to switch to the ministry. He graduated with a B.A. degree and entered Virginia Theological Seminary...
This week the Rev. Charles Gresham Marmion Jr., 48, preached his last sermon at the Church of the Incarnation. On Feb. 2 he will be consecrated Bishop of Kentucky, with his brother as one of the attending presbyters. A month or so later, the Rev. William Henry Marmion, 46, will be consecrated Bishop of Southwestern Virginia-thus making the third set of brother-bishops in the Episcopal Church...