Word: repton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Social Revolutionist. Ordained to the priesthood, Temple served successively as chaplain to the then Archbishop of Canterbury, headmaster of Repton School, rector of St. James's in Piccadilly, Canon of Westminster Abbey. In 1921 he was appointed Bishop of Manchester. Eight years later, at 48, he was made the youngest Archbishop of York in history...
...classics and the presidency of the Oxford Union (traditional steppingstone for British statesmen but a post also held by Dr. Lang, Temple's predecessor at Canterbury, and Dr. Garbett, his successor at York), he was in quick succession an Oxford don (philosophy) at 23, a headmaster (of Repton) at 28, rector of London's fashionable St. James's Church, Piccadilly and chaplain to the King, a bishop at 39, an archbishop...