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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Geoffrey Fisher
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(1887–1972, baron 1961) Archbishop of Canterbury 1945–61, having previously been bishop of Chester (1932–9) and of London (1939–45); before his bishopric at Chester he was headmaster of Repton school for 18 years. He was the first archbishop of Canterbury to become widely known to the public through television, beginning with the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. His tenure of office also included a historic moment in the relationship between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches; when he visited Pope John XXIII in the Vatican in 1960, it was the first time since the Reformation that a pope and an archbishop of Canterbury had met.
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