The Archbishop of York's behaviour was 'never that expected of a cleric, rarely that expected of a pirate'...
The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is Assistant Curate at Liverpool Parish Church and the author of A Field Guide to the English Clergy, a Best Book of the Year for The Times, Mail on Sunday and BBC History. He holds a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in theology from the University of Cambridge. He once accidentally appeared on Only Connect. This is his second book.
‘One of the best Christmas books of the past few years... both
hilarious and unusually elegant in conception and execution.’
*Marcus Berkmann, Spectator*
‘Eye-popping tales of lunacy, debauchery and
depravity…Butler-Gallie has done a splendid job presenting a
smorgasbord of most peculiar parsons.’
*Sebastian Shakespeare, Daily Mail*
‘We have…always kept a special haven for oddballs in the Church of
England, as Fergus Butler-Gallie demonstrates in this entertaining
compendium…Their foibles cover all bases from absentmindedness to
epic drunkenness…I’m glad I read this one. It’s a lot of fun.’
*The Times*
‘Entertainingly erudite…But it is also a surprisingly profound
work…For all its mischief, Butler-Gallie’s work of lightly worn
erudition is a paean to a great English institution, finely tuned
to the temper of its representatives, good, bad and indifferent. We
should treasure it more.’
*Literary Review*
‘A humorous compendium of some of the oddball clergy who have
served the Church over the centuries...These thumbnail portraits
reveal a very broad church indeed.’
*New Statesman*
‘The Church of England has produced some real oddballs in its time,
and this is an entertaining gallop through several centuries’ worth
of them…Butler-Gallie has done his homework, digging out some rare
gems…This is the story not just of eccentrics, but also of a
leisured age that is no more.’
*Harry Mount, Spectator*
‘Wonderfully entertaining…A hilarious yet thoughtful reminder that
the Christian faith wasn’t always thought incompatible with a sense
of humour or a healthy bolshiness.’
*Sunday Times*
‘It may have the makings of a modern classic…Butler-Gallie
chronicles not just Anglican follies, but also human weaknesses
which we all share and with which we can perhaps sympathise.’
*The Catholic Herald*
‘This is a ridiculously enjoyable book: funny, compassionate, and
wonderfully well-written.’
*Tom Holland*
‘A delightful, sympathetic, humorous and earthed cocktail of quirky
English clergy.’
*The Rt Revd David Wilbourne*
‘Fabulously enjoyable compendium of the Anglican Church’s most
eccentric ministers – who prove to be very eccentric indeed.’
*Reader’s Digest*
‘Some of the most riotous misbehaviour in Church of England history
is chronicled in this sprightly book.’
*Daily Mail*
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