When it comes to seeking a celebrity speaker for a parish’s bicentenary dinner, few priests can be as blessed as Mgr Phelim Rowland. Past parishioners at St Mary’s, Hampstead, north London, include General Charles de Gaulle and Friedrich von Hügel. Among the great and the good attending today is Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England. Mgr Rowland said he had not been asked, but added he was on the list of many in the parish who are “quite well known” who would