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Richard Tydeman

RICHARD TYDEMAN

  (1915 - 2011)
Nationality:    English
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Richard Tydeman, who died aged 94, had a great love of the English language and its proper usage. A highly regarded preacher and after-dinner speaker, he also compiled crosswords for the Church Times, produced verse and plays, and wrote a column for Freemasonry Today under the heading Reflection. A Suffolk man through-and-through, Tydeman was born in Stowmarket and educated at Woodbridge School, before attending St Johns College Oxford (BA in 1939, MA in 1943). He trained for the priesthood at Ripon Hall, Oxford, and was ordained in 1943. After a brief curacy in Staffordshire he returned to Suffolk first as a curate and then as a priest in charge of Ipswich and Woodbridge. He was an Honorary Canon of St Edmundsbury Cathedral from 1959 to 1963. In 1963, Tydeman moved to London as Rector of St Sepulchre-Without-Newgate and a Deputy Minor Canon of St Pauls Cathedral. He was preacher of Lincolns Inn from 1973 until his London retirement in 1981. He then returned to Suffolk before moving to Cornwallis Court in Bury St Edmunds.

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         Ah! Cruel fate!         Albert Laddin         Alf's Barbara         Ask a Silly Question         Ballista         Dawn Of Our Darkness         Duet With Dowagers         Echo For Ladies         Field of Fashion         Fiesta Fandango         Forty Winks Beauty         Garden Meeting         Gilbert And Solomon         HeArts And Humours         Hi-fi Spy         High Tension         Hip-Hip-Horatious         Idea For A Play         Iron Hot Strikers         Piccalli Circus         Puss In Slippers         Red Hot Cinders         Sea Side Trippers         Snow White Special         Spacewoman         Speeches and Cream         Spring Song Singers         Thistle In A Donkey Field, The         Unhand Me, Squire Or Much Ado About Sweet Fanny Adams         Way Out West         What Ho Within!         Who's Bean Stalking?
Ah! Cruel fate!

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Albert Laddin

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A Storm in a China Tea Cup

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Alf's Barbara

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Ask a Silly Question

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Ballista

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set in a small Mediterranean island which hosts a Roman army thus developing arguments about war and peace

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Dawn Of Our Darkness

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presentation of Christ's nativity

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Childrens 1 Act Youth Audience

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Duet With Dowagers

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Echo For Ladies

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Field of Fashion

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Fiesta Fandango

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Forty Winks Beauty

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Garden Meeting

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Gilbert And Solomon

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HeArts And Humours

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Hi-fi Spy

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High Tension

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Hip-Hip-Horatious

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Idea For A Play

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takles the theme "What can save the world" in amusing symbolism

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New Plays Quarterly No.40

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Iron Hot Strikers

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Piccalli Circus

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Puss In Slippers

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Red Hot Cinders

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A Potted Version of the CinderElla Pantomime in Three Acts

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Evans Bros, London, 1973   

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Sea Side Trippers

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Mini Drama

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Snow White Special

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A Dwarf Panto of A Mini Drama

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Spacewoman

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Speeches and Cream

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Spring Song Singers

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Thistle In A Donkey Field, The

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A Vegetable Parable, with distinct Animal Connections

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Evans Bros, London, 1970   

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Fantasy One Act

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Unhand Me, Squire Or Much Ado About Sweet Fanny Adams

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Way Out West

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What Ho Within!

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Who's Bean Stalking?

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