British men of the cloth
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:39 pm
Robert Stephen Hawker, Rector of Morwenstow, in North Cornwall and a poet, most famed for The Song of The Western Men a sort of Anthem for the Little Land of Cornwall:-
And have they fixed the where and when
And shall Trelawney die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen
Will know the reason why!
He also once ex-communicated a cat for catching a mouse on a Sunday. His coat was claret and he wore a blue fisherman's jersey sewn with a red cross to mark the point at which he thought the centurion's spear stabbed Christ. Often he wore long sea boots too:
Sabine Baring-Gould, whose hymn Onward Christian Soldiers remains a favourite, even, sometimes, with the revised lyrics of Lloyd George Knew My Father, after a certain amount of refreshment. The father of many children, once there was a children's party in the house and he came across a glum little girl sitting on the stairs and to cheer her he said "Now then, whose little girl are you?" She then burst into tears and blubbed "Yours.":
Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, a central character in the drama of the abdication crisis:
And have they fixed the where and when
And shall Trelawney die?
Here's twenty thousand Cornishmen
Will know the reason why!
He also once ex-communicated a cat for catching a mouse on a Sunday. His coat was claret and he wore a blue fisherman's jersey sewn with a red cross to mark the point at which he thought the centurion's spear stabbed Christ. Often he wore long sea boots too:
Sabine Baring-Gould, whose hymn Onward Christian Soldiers remains a favourite, even, sometimes, with the revised lyrics of Lloyd George Knew My Father, after a certain amount of refreshment. The father of many children, once there was a children's party in the house and he came across a glum little girl sitting on the stairs and to cheer her he said "Now then, whose little girl are you?" She then burst into tears and blubbed "Yours.":
Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, a central character in the drama of the abdication crisis:
