Robertson Hare the provinces, and in South Africa. He reached a new public in the late 1960s in a television series, "All Gas and Gaiters". He played the Archdeacon of St. Ogg's, the Ven Henry Blunt. His co-stars were William Mervyn as the Rt Rev Cuthbert Hever, Bishop of St Ogg's, Derek Nimmo as the Rev Mervyn Noote, the Bishop's chaplain, and John Barron as the Very Rev Lionel Pugh-Critchley, Dean of St Ogg's. George Melly wrote: His most famous catchphrase was: "Oh, calamity!" He was awarded the OBE in 1979. Hare died in London at the age of 87. Robertson Hare
Mervyn Stockwood Mervyn Stockwood Arthur Mervyn Stockwood (27 May 1913 – 13 January 1995) was the Anglican Bishop of Southwark from 1959 to 1980. Mervyn Stockwood was born in Bridgend, Wales. His solicitor father was killed during the First World War in 1916 on the Somme. He was introduced to Anglo-Catholic worship at All Saints' Church, Clifton, which reinforced his love of ritual and sense of the dramatic. He was educated at The Downs School and Kelly College; in 1931 he entered Christ's College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1934. Having studied for the Anglican ministry at Westcott House theological college in Cambridge,