Word: stiffkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Harold Francis Davidson, 65, "The Lustful Rector of Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come...
...raise funds for a new trial, Rev, Harold Davidson, the white-haired, ill-famed Rector of Stiffkey, England, who was deposed for improper conduct with girls he was "rescuing" (TIME, July 18), last week put himself on display in a barrel on the seaside promenade of Blackpool, next to a girl fasting in a barrel. Crowds flocked to see. Explained he: "I am not going to fast. But I shall be here from 10 a. m. to midnight. While I am in the barrel, I shall be occupied with preparing my case. I want 200 pounds sterling for a special...
...hear charges preferred by the Lord Bishop of Norwich against Rev. Harold F. Davidson. Church House was packed with prebendaries, minor canons, curates, newshawks. By nightfall British readers grew pop-eyed over the details of "the most sensational trial in church history." the trial of the "lewd rector of Stiffkey...
...Stiffkey (pronounced "Stewky") is in Norfolk. Beyond officiating at matins and evensong on Sundays, bland, white-haired Dr. Davidson* spent little time there. His avowed mission was in London where he devoted himself to saving errant girls. "We believe," ran the formal charge, "that the Rev. Harold F. Davidson had a right and duty to rescue maidens from a life of sin, but that in the process he should not have: "Systematically misbehaved himself - "Kissed and hugged Barbara Harris in a Chinese restaurant in Bloomsbury "Permitted 17-year-old Barbara Harris to sleep in his bed - "Been guilty of immoral...
...harm in that whatsoever, because that is Temptation, but we must not encourage it." At the end of the service he took up a collection "for my work of helping my poor girls." At Walsingham. Norfolk, police court, the trial of Dr. Davidson for riding an unlighted bicycle at Stiffkey was adjourned last week "because the rector is on more important business in London...