clergyman-uncle

Updated: July 11, 2025

Much to the credit of my clergyman-uncle, he declined the Bishopric, saying that he had neither the eloquence nor the administrative ability necessary for so high an office in the Church, and that he preferred to remain a plain country parson in his little parish, of which, at the time of his death, he had been Rector for fifty-six years.

Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton - The Days Before Yesterday