Product Description

The "Daily Telegraph" has a reputation for outstanding obituaries. This book contains the best and most colourful obituaries of clergymen in recent years, selected and introduced by Trevor Beeson, former Dean of Winchester. They range from Monsignor Alfred Gilbey who weekly rode to hounds in frock coat and gaiters to Brian Brindley who died surrounded by his acolytes in the midst of a five-course dinner at The Atheneum.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #301929 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Customer Reviews

All of life is here
Words about dead priests may not sound fascinating but this book is wonderfully interesting. From fundamentalists to doubters ('it was said of him that the only part of the creed he believed was "he suffered under Pontius Pilate" '), from social activists to clergy in little more than lifelong retirement, from the brave to the foolish, the family men to the suspiciously single this book collects humour and pathos from a whole series of lives. Most are Anglican (this is the Daily Telegraph after all) but the real story is not denominational or even especially religious so much as fascinatingly human.