Advancing years brought conservatism, and they became in time loyal Tories and orthodox churchmen.
He said, 'I perceive you are a churchman.' I answered I was.
He was one of the wisest and most temperate churchmen of his time.
The churchman, to whom he was next presented, eyed him with a glance of mingled dislike and curiosity.
It had seemed - and was in part intended as - irreverent, and calculated to make austere churchmen and political moralists appear crude and unsophisticated.
Many ' rising men ' supplemented a core group of senior churchmen, ensuring that the commission was both intellectually highpowered and politically astute.
Those churchmen and others demonstrate that there were sensitive supporters of modern religious art among the clergy.
The latter spaces, with their dais ends, expressed the hierarchical vision of the dominant churchmen.
