15 May 2014, The Tablet

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OLD ETONIANS hold a significant number of key positions in the inner circle of Prime Minister David Cameron, who himself was a pupil at the school. And given that the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, went to Eton, are they soon to be running the Churches too? A new society for Old Etonian clergy and those “involved, supportive or interested in Christian faith, ministry, education or service” has been set up. It is named after former pupil John Coleridge Patteson, who became Bishop of Melanesia in 1861. Ten years later he was murdered on the island of Nakapu on the Solomon Islands after being mistaken as a slave trader, and is commemorated in the Anglican Communion as a martyr. There may well be future members of the society among the 250 Catholics currently at the schoo
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