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Anglican U-turn
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040718
Author:by RCHARD EDEN
DR ROWAN WILLIAMS appears to be failing to halt the crumbling of the Anglican establishment. Mandrake learns that Winchester College, England's oldest public school, whose alumni include Anthony Trollope, Hugh Gaitskell and Lord Howe, is to allow a Catholic to become headmaster for the first time since the Reformation.
Like Eton and the majority of Oxbridge colleges, the statutes of the pounds 22,000-a-year Hampshire school, founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, require the head to be a "communicant of the Church of England". Happily, Ralph Townsend, who takes up the post next year, is ...
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