His first Curacy was at the Guards Chapel (Holy Trinity) at Windsor. In May 1903 he had his last professional stage employment and on September 21, 1903 he was ordained as a Priest in the Church of England. He was High Church. At first he was assistant chaplain to the Household Cavalry, and then he was a Curate of St Martin-in-the-Fields from August 1905. Davidson's appointment as Rector of Stiffkey St John with Stiffkey St Mary and Morston was announced in July 1906. Stiffkey (pronounced as its written not as Stewky) is a rural Norfolk vill ...

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A cause célèbre (of which the plural is causes célèbres) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning and/or heated public debate. It is particularly used for famous long-running legal cases. It is a French phrase in common usage in English. In French, cause means a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court dec ...

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Cause célèbre - A. Mumia Abu-Jamal: The 1982 conviction of this member of the Black Panthers Party for murdering Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner has been affirmed on appeal although the original death sentence has been overturned. His supporters assert that the original trial was unfair. Hashem Aghajari - An Iranian dissident sentenced to death for apostasy when he criticised the Islamic Republic for perverting Islam; the sentence was later commuted. Jamil Abdullah al-Amin: Better ...

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For the next six years Curtis was an essential part of the Searchers’ sound and contributed to the band's characteristic vocal harmonies with his distinctive high voice.. As well as playing drums he introduced all manner of percussion including: tom-toms, castanets, cowbells, bongos and Spanish bells. The band’s members took turns singing lead vocals, which allowed them to give longer and more frequent sets than most of their competitors. This would later be one of the triggers for Curtis’ habit of substance abuse: taking ...

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Still situated in its original location, Exeter College was founded in 1314 by Walter de Stapeldon of Devon, Bishop of Exeter and later treasurer to Edward III, who intended it as a school to educate clergy. During its first century, it was known as Stapeldon Hall and was significantly smaller, with just twelve to fourteen students. The college grew significantly from the 15th century onward, and began offering rooms to its student ...

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Curtis left the music industry and joined the Inland Revenue in 1969. He found the change difficult but he liked his new colleagues and he stayed there for 19 years. He took early retirement in 1988 suffering a systemic illness that he ascribed to sick building syndrome. In the mid-70s he made some demos with Bernard Whitty, a Liverpool producer, to whom he had been introduced by one of his colleagues at the Inland Revenue. Alan Willey was an accountant who played guitar as a hobby. He asked Curtis to join his band, Western Union, but Curtis’ exuberant style did not fit the synthesised sound of the band. Ult ...

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When he left the Searchers, Curtis rang his friend, Klaus Voorman, who was in charge of the Swedish radio station for whom the band had recorded sessions in 1964. Voorman told him to come to Sweden to get himself straight. Upon his return to London from Sweden, Curtis recorded his only solo single Aggravation (backed with Have I Done Something Wrong?). It entered the UK charts at number 40 on June 26, 1966 rising to 19 the following week and then ...

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In 1967, a year after their first meeting Curtis contacted Edwards. “From out of the blue, Chris rang me from Liverpool. He said I'd like you to be my manager. I'll teach you everything. Brian Epstein's dead, you can be the next Brian Epstein.' That hooked me." recalled Edwards. Curtis came back to London at the beginning of 1968 and moved into a low-rent flat rented by Jon Lord, whom he had recently met at one of Vicki Wickham’s parties. Curtis was planning his return to performing but he had yet to assemble his new band. In that first conversation ...

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Born Christopher Crummey in Oldham in 1941, Curtis came to Liverpool when he was four and went to primary school where he met Mike Prendergast. He taught himself how to play the piano on the family instrument at 30 Florida Street in Bootle. He passed the 11-plus and went to St. Mary’s College in Crosby, where he was taught violin although he wanted to play the double-bass. His father bought him a drumset during his late teens when he left school and he learnt these in his spare time, when he was not selling prams at Swift’s ...

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For the summer season in 1937 Davidson worked at an amusement park in Skegness, where he was billed as 'A modern Daniel in a lion's den'. He would enter a cage with a lion called Freddie and a lioness, and talk for about ten minutes about the injustice he felt had been meted out to him. On July 28, he was moving through his act when he accidentally tripped on the tail of the lion. Perceiving this as an attack the lion mauled him at the neck leaving a gash behind his left ear. The injury was not severe; the lion was old toothless and sedated. ...

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Sentence for Davidson had to wait until after he had exhausted his legal appeals (which were all turned down). His sentence was announced on October 21, 1932: he was defrocked. A final appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury failed. Davidson tried to speak at a meeting of the Church Assembly in 1936 but was told by the Archbishop that he had no rights to speak. Increasingly he came to believe that he had been framed, and referred ...

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Much went on behind the scenes before Davidson's trial finally began on March 29, 1932. This was an internal church disciplinary trial, not a criminal prosecution, but it was a public sensation. Many of the charges related to inappropriate intimacy with girls employed at Lyons tea rooms. Davidson often befriended them because, when working in the West End, they were very easily led into prostitution. However, the prosecution unveiled a star witness, Gwendoline Harris (known as Barbara Harris) who was 16 years old when she first met Davidson. ...

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On July 8, 1932 Davidson was convicted on all five counts. With the loss of his job, he went back to public entertainment and in September advertised his appearance fasting in a barrel at Blackpool. This appearance did not go according to plan as the massed crowds caused an obstruction to the footpath and the police arrested the promoter (Luke Gannon) for causing it, and Davidson for aiding and abetting him. Both had to give undertakings "that the barrel busine ...

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