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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I am grateful to the Anglo-Catholic History Society for agreeing to publish this book. It is not intended to be a rerun of H.E. Sheen’s biography, Canon Peter Green, published in 1965. I have attempted to discover what Peter Green thought and taught and the depth of his spirituality in his thirty eight books published over 60 years, indicating his integrated system of faith, life and service. The hope is that the reader will perceive the wholeness of his life and be able to find something of value to re-enforce their own spirituality and so be infected, to use a Peter Green expression, with his enthusiasm.

I wish to place on record my thanks to those who have encouraged me to undertake this investigation, especially those in whom Peter Green’s memory is still bright 50 years after his death on 17th November 1961. They are the ones who have delved into their personal archives to provide photos of him which they treasure.

My thanks go to Alison Siddall for introducing me to Green’s Artifex articles in the Manchester Guardian and making them available to me.

I acknowledge the advice I have received from Canon Andrew Shanks, Canon John Elford, Tom West, Dr George Brooke, and lately from Michael Yelton. Above all, I am forever grateful to Sally, my wife, as my chief support in this project as in all the others we have under-taken together over our long married life.

+Frank Sargeant