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2007-08-04 -Obits-

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Posted by mrp 2007-08-04 13:06|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 MRP, thanks for posting this obit. I knew Fr. Barrett-Lennard as a parishoner at Brompton Road (Oratory). I had a confidential matter that needed a canonical resolution (most RC will recognize what it was). I went to him first and he introduced me to the wizards of canon law over behind Westminster Cathedral on Francis St. He found out my service in the Air Force and what I had done. He and I would talk for hours about his days in the Army and where he had served. But he was most interested in me and the Buffers. He wanted to fly in one. We were never able to finalize those arrangements but he did put in a special word for me since the canonical process when lickety-split.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2007-08-04 13:57|| 2007-08-04 13:57|| Front Page Top

#2 You're welcome, JIB (and thanks to retired USN chief Jeff Miller at Curt Jester, and to Fr. George Rutler, who tipped Jeff - and thanks to Fred Pruitt at Rantburg). There is more to the obit at the link.

Posted by mrp 2007-08-04 15:42|| 2007-08-04 15:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Once again, no one does an obit like the Brits. Wot a guy.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-08-04 15:47|| 2007-08-04 15:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The 2nd baronet was a High Sheriff of Essex who - to his servants' distress - used to put down water for the rats at his house; he dressed so scruffily that, on leaving Brentwood mental hospital where he had been chairing a committee meeting, he was marched back inside by a constable who mistook him for an escaped inmate.

It's like the Brits have some sort of monopoly on being dotty.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-08-04 17:12|| 2007-08-04 17:12|| Front Page Top

#5 They're so good at it. And I mean that as a high compliment.

I heard that it was the Brits who ran the first triple-agent. No one else was loony enough. May be a folk tale, but it sure rings true to me.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2007-08-04 21:42|| 2007-08-04 21:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Jack, what an honor to have met such a man. Not sure they make them quite this way any more.

Posted by JAB 2007-08-04 22:20|| 2007-08-04 22:20|| Front Page Top

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