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Doutbless it is a feather in Repton's cap, but Fisher was not in my view a great archbishop, being more in the mould of a church politician than a spiritual leader, as neatly summed up by the then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan who described his archiepiscopate as "too much Martha and not enough Mary." He also failed to observe the convention that ex-archbishops return to humble obscurity, choosing instead to lead a noisy and public campaign against Anglican-Methodist union in the late 60s. He was clearly a gifted headmaster, however - maybe he should have stuck at that! Editor2