Scotch-Drinking Bishop Lost Dominoes Match
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LONDON, Sept. 9. A bishop popped into a village pub for a quick one—and was challenged by the locals to a game of dominoes. Dressed in his purple robe he sat on a public bar bench in the White Hart Hotel at Fundon, Bedfordshire, for a game. He was the Rt. Rev. M. G. Jones, who is bishop of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. Bishop /
. Jones was on a tour of par- • ishes. I Partnered by one of the s locals at the White Hart, he lost a game to his host for the > day, the Rev. John Spread, i who was partnered by a coalt man. i The 62-year-old bishop, who sipped whisky and soda, spent half an hour in the pub, . where the jukebox was being ) played.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30542, 10 September 1964, Page 17
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