Word: nuneaton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jobs and Politics. The son of a Nuneaton (Warwickshire) parish priest, Geoffrey Fisher won honors at Oxford by working hard. Ever since, he has had an easy time of it, falling into one job after another. The first was a three-year stretch as an assistant master at Marlborough, his old school. Then he started in William Temple's footsteps: he succeeded him as headmaster of Repton School. Finally, with an agility that left many a churchman popeyed, Fisher in 1932 stepped directly from 21 years of schoolmastering into the Bishopric of Chester...
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