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...Lang even stood up to Queen Victoria. While he was vicar of Portsea, the largest parish in England, with twelve curates under him, she told him a good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...
Slight, deaf, intense Bishop Barry knows his wars. A winner of the D.S.O. for heroism as a chaplain in World War I, he has since served as Archdeacon of Egypt, Chaplain to the King, Canon of Westminster, and Vicar of the University Church at Oxford, which he packed with undergraduates as it had never been packed before-even by John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman. No stuffed shirt, he lists his recreations in Who's Who as "indescribable...
...face of such transparent manliness, most of Harrow could forgive young Churchill nearly everything. Writes Vicar Edgar Stogdon of Harrow, who was at school with young Churchill: "If your mother wrote to ask if she could come down to see you, you told her what hat to wear, and if her figure was beyond the accepted standard, you suggested postponement. . . . Mr. Winston Churchill invited his old nurse down ... to her intense happiness; she arrived in an old poke bonnet, her figure had attained ample proportions, and Mr. Churchill walked arm-in-arm with her in the street! It is about...
...year-old St. Clement Danes Church, which lies like an island surrounded by the traffic of the Strand, only the walls and tower still stand. Of St. Clement's eleven bells, six have been destroyed. A month after the blitzing of St. Clement's last spring, its vicar, the Rev. Mr. William Pennington-Bickford, died-of a broken heart, his parishioners said. Last week his widow was buried beside him. She had jumped to her death from an attic window after telling her cook: "I prayed every night that God might take...
...With the Vicar's stirrup pump, a pitchfork and a spade