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27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011
The Reverend John Stott, who died on July 27 aged 90, was one of the most influential Anglican clergymen of the 20th century. He was declared one of the world's 100 most influential people in Time magazine in 2005. He also wore muckle shoes and favoured a kilt.
Stott wrote over 50 books, including the 1958 classic "Basic Christianity," which sold more than 2.5 million copies. Using the profits from his writing, Stott funded the training of ministers from poor countries before sending them back out like a botnet attack on their homelands, pestering hitherto contented goatherds with tales of God's young 'un.
So what else did he do? Let's say he invented Stottie cakes because he liked the feeding of the five thousand so much shall we? I can't be bothered researching his actual life any more. He also developed a mixture of small sugar coated sweets called Jelly Stotts but was badly let down by an unscrupulous confectionary agent who dropped the 'S' and sold the concept as his own to Rowntree-Mackintosh. Stott was probably devasted by the betrayal and this is what led him to devote his life to the church or something. He unsuccesfully ran for mayor of Nottingham on the promise of altering its name slightly so it sounded a bit more like his. I don't know. He mentored prominent religious hectorer and mate o' the presidents Billy Graham, they used to get together and watch Blott on the Landscape; John would claim it was all about him and Billy would tease him by saying it was really about Alan Knott. Billy was on the right tracks but slightly off target, it was actually about Jonathan Trott. John didn't like cricket, he liked teapots, robots and AC/DC (Bon Scott).
Status: Dead
Lookalike: An academic Bobby Robson
In Three Words: Ham, Pease Pudding
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