PATRICK KIDD

AN INSPIRED CHEAT

WHEN A FORMER RECTOR of St Clement Danes died of tuberculosis on the French Riviera some 150 years ago, it caused little stir back in England. His 1853 tract, Dangerous Errors of Romanism, was scarcely known; his stirring sermon on Crimea, which had earned him a picture in the Illustrated London News, was long forgotten; and the 12 runs he made batting at No 3 for Oxford in the first Varsity cricket match in 1827 did not merit an obit in Wisden. The Church Times did not mention this muscular Christian until 1966, almost a century after his death. For decades his grave in a hilltop cemetery overlooking the Mediterranean lay covered with weeds until it was rediscovered in the 1950s. Yet later this year it will become a place…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, February 2023

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