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'I was obliged to excel, but not for trinkets or popular acclaim'

By Sheena McDonald

IT has never surprised me that so many people who work in some sector of public life - politics, television, the stage - are clergymen's children. Growing up in a manse, as I did in the 1950s, instils an unspoken sense of duty.