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A Last Eccentric

on BBC Radio 3

Mervyn Stockwood , Bishop of Southward retires this week. When it was declared that the Preacher at his Consecration was to be The Rev F. A. Simpson. few outside
Cambridge were any the wiser. But in Cambridge it was the talk of the University, for there Simpson was known as one of the last eccentrics Canon Eric James recalls how he conducted Simpson from Cambridge to Southward, and describes the impact of the sermon. followed by an interlude

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Mervyn Stockwood
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F. A. Simpson.
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Canon Eric James

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