Word: vicar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Anderson Jardine, vicar of St. Paul's, Darlington, was the little clergyman's name. The story that he was very anxious for the press to believe was that of all the little clergymen in Britain who have chafed at their bishops' treatment of the Duke of Windsor, he alone thought of writing to Monts to offer his services to the Duke, whom he had never met. Explained Vicar Jardine's wife...
...Londoners sniffed a more devious trail leading to the sudden appearance of little Vicar Jardine at Monts last week. It is well known that one of the things that has most distressed Queen Mary in recent weeks has been the blunt refusal of grim Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury & Primate of All England, to allow any form of Church of England service at the wedding of her favorite son. It also happens that the bishop to whom Vicar Jardine owes allegiance is the Right Rev. Herbert Hensley Henson. Bishop of Durham, a noted liberal, longtime opponent of the Archbishop...
...England is governed by the several bishops reigning in their several dioceses. I now find it is come to be some kind of novel body governed by the British Broadcasting Corp. and by two archbishops, Canterbury and York. I do not like it." As soon as news of Vicar Jardine's bold gesture became known, however, the bold Bishop of Durham insisted that he had had nothing to do with it, would have strongly disapproved had he been consulted. But he pointed out that British clergymen on the Continent are outside their normal dioceses...
Sticking close to the Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
...strapping, twinkling-eyed onetime boilermaker who, it is said, still holds a union card, Bishop Duffy taught at Seton Hall College in South Orange, N. J., whence he used to tramp twelve miles weekly to visit his mother in his native Jersey City. He rose to be chancellor, then vicar general of the diocese of Newark, was made Bishop of Syracuse in 1933, transferred to the larger see of Buffalo last January...