Winston Churchill went to Harrow. For the 150th anniversary of his birth, the school invited me to speak on Churchill and God. The audience was told that my talk concerned the second greatest Old Harrovian. The greatest, it was announced unequivocally, was Henry Edward Manning: Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, a great social reformer and Ultramontane prelate. His bust in the Lady Chapel (by Basil Gotto, another Old Harrovian) constitutes the only piece of statuary in the school chapel. In fact, Harrow succeeded in producing two of the most famous English converts to Catholicism of the 19th century: FW Faber, hymn writer, theologian and provost of the London Oratory, was also educated there.
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Fullness of faith at Churchill's old school: the Herald calls on the chaplaincy at Harrow
Winston Churchill went to Harrow. For the 150th anniversary of his birth, the school invited me to speak on Churchill and God.
Fr Mark Vickers
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