SUGGESTIONS have reached us from High Places that our normally sagacious and circumspect Editor has been the victim of a gross imposture. It has been insinuated that our correspondent Archdeacon Armitage-Shanks is a fabrication. To put an end to rumours of this kind we are happy to publish the following entry from a well-known clerical directory:
ARMITAGE-SHANKS, Andrew William Cameron. BSc, FICE.
Lambeth Palace, SE1 7JU
b. 26 April, 1946. educ. Elm Grove School, Belfast; Queen’s University, Belfast; Westcott House; d.76, p. 76. C. St. Margaret of Antioch, E. Dulwich (Southwark) 76-78; SLIM 77-78; Dioc. Media Advisor, St Alban’s, 78-81; Dir. In-service Training, Durham, 81-88; Archd of Glastonbury (Bath and Wells) 88-92; Archd-at-Lambeth 92 –
Married: Robyn (‘Bobbie’), 1980. They have two daughters.
Publications: ‘The Archdeacon in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Fiction’ Mowbray, 1972.