Avengers star Patrick Macnee, who has died aged 93, was – according to his obituaries – introduced to whisky as a schoolboy by the then Archbishop of Cardiff, Francis Mostyn. The archbishop was apparently invited to consecrate a private chapel at a house where Macnee was staying as a guest and headed out into the grounds with a bottle of whisky where he met the young Macnee and offered him a tot. This, according to The Daily Telegraph, gave Macnee a taste for a wee dram.Macnee went
02 July 2015, The Tablet
Whisky archbishop
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