When confronted by opposition his reaction was to bluster, which often cowed the meek.

No-one railed against them more persistently than Norman Mailer, for whom 'creeping plasticism' was taking over the world.

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

In 1916 he was Rector of Hampton Bishop, a village on the River Wye outside Hereford, and one day while “parishing”, as he called visiting his flock, a farmers' wife, a Mrs. Christopher Field, gave him an account of her father's death-bed; […]