2016
President and Secretary of the Rotary Club of Beverley.
2020
Took part in the procession to support the students graduating at the University of Hull.
40th Anniversary of Readership in the Church of England
2016
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2019
Relaxing at home after publication of Maurice Aristide Chapelan, Man of Three Parts.
2019
40th Anniversary of Readership in the Church of England
2020
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(This book will be published in October 2020.)
This book will be published in October 2020.
Dr. Mary was born on 23rd June 1943 in Kingston upon Hull, England, to John Munro and Joan Munro, née Tinkler. Married Thomas Peter Hill on 22nd November 1968, becoming Mary Munro-Hill. Widowed on 11th March 2005. Mother Anglican, father Quaker. Both musical and both interested in literature. Father a gifted linguist.
Educated at the Bricknell Avenue Junior School and at the Hull High School for Girls, Tranby Croft, Anlaby, Kingston upon Hull, England. Head Girl 1960-1961.
Career spent in education as teacher of Modern Languages, Classics and Theology, in British universities, colleges and schools in London and Kingston-upon-Hull. From 1951 has been an organist in the Church of England. In 1979 was licensed and admitted as a Lay Minister (Reader) and celebrated 40th Anniversary in December 2019.
Since 2016, a full-time writer, contributing to French scholarship by introducing to the anglophone world of letters the work of Maurice Aristide Chapelan, grammarian, poet, literary critic,novelist and writer of aphorisms. It is above all for this unique contribution to learning that this person should be recognised and remembered.
(Claude Duneton, a distinguished writer, succeeded Aristid...)
2018(Portrays Chapelan as literary critic, grammarian and nove...)
2019(An Introduction to Maurice Chapelan with particular atten...)
2017I am a lifelong Anglican and also a Quaker.
I tend towards Liberalism.
I have been a Rotarian since 2004 and have been President of two Rotary Clubs (Hull and Beverley, United Kingdom).
Complex: extrovert turned introvert, with age. Confident leader, public speaker, writer, friend.
Physical Characteristics: Blonde, slim, medium height.
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Inspirational teacher, lecturer and preacher.
Childless but a doting aunt and great aunt.
