Robert Henryson as portrayed in the Abbot_House, Dunfermline | Abbot House, Dunfermline

This group consisted of Russ Abbot as a former milkman who fancied himself a secret agent, Hobbo Hobdyke, Burt Kwouk as the electrical repairman, " Electrical " Entwistle, and Murphy as Alvin Smedley.

In Greek practice the title or function of Abbot corresponds to a person who actually serves as the head of a monastery, although the title of the Archimandrite may be given to any celibate priest who could serve as the head of a monastery.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

Another relative was Wilstan or Wulfstan, who under Ealdred's influence became Abbot of Gloucester.

The last Abbot was Cardinal David Beaton, who in 1522 succeeded his uncle James to become Archbishop of St Andrews.

The Abbey, which was the richest in Scotland, is most famous for its association with the 1320 Declaration of Arbroath, believed to have been drafted by Abbot Bernard, who was the Chancellor of Scotland under King Robert I.

These followers, he says, are Constantinus, who succeeded Benedict as Abbot of Monte Cassino ; Valentinianus ; Simplicius ; and Honoratus, who was abbot of Subiaco when St Gregory wrote his Dialogues.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

* Hwaetberht ( died 740s ), Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, who wrote under the pen-name of Eusebius

Rather than appoint a new duke from his own circle, Otto now divided the threatening power of the duchy among the great ecclesiastics with and through whom he ruled, and who had remained faithful to his cause: the Bishop of Würzburg and the Abbot of Fulda ( 939 ).

Hildegard communicated with popes such as Eugene III and Anastasius IV, statesmen such as Abbot Suger, German emperors such as Frederick I Barbarossa, and other notable figures such as Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, who advanced her work, at the behest of her abbot, Kuno, at the Synod of Trier in 1147 and 1148.

From the 12th century Abbot Hugh of Semur ( died 1109 ), Peter Abelard ( died 1142 ), and Geoffrey of Vendome ( died 1132 ) all referred to Mary Magdalene as the sinner who merited the title apostolarum apostola, with the title becoming commonplace during the 12th and 13th centuries.

Hugh the Abbot succeeded him in the countship of Anjou as in most of his other duties, and on his death ( 886 ) it passed to Odo, the eldest son of Robert the Strong, who, on his accession to the throne of France ( 888 ), probably handed it over to his brother Robert.

He remains on good terms, however, with churchmen who stood by him, including Abbot Sampson, who this year bequeaths John his jewels.

While Theodore was in exile, the leadership of the Studite congregation was assumed by the Abbot Leontios, who for a time adopted the iconoclast position and won over many individuals monks to his party.

He is known to have studied Euclid and to have translated the work of Al Battani and Avicenna, and it seems that he would not have made the translation for which he is famous, that of the Qur ' an, without the encouragement of the French Abbot Peter the Venerable, who wished to have access to Islamic texts.

Abbot Howard " Abbie " Hoffman ( November 30, 1936 – April 12, 1989 ) was a political and social activist who co-founded the Youth International Party (" Yippies ").

In response, Thai authors Seni and Kukrit Pramoj wrote their own account in 1948 and sent it to American politician and diplomat Abbot Low Moffat ( 1901 – 1996 ), who drew on it for his biography Mongkut, the King of Siam ( 1961 ).

Her first marriage, on 28 September 1933, was to Edward Alec Abbot Snelson ( 1904 – 1992 ), later Sir Edward, a British civil servant who became a noted judge and expert in Indian affairs.

In 1087, William the Conqueror gave the manor of Tewkesbury to his cousin, Robert Fitzhamon, who, with Giraldus, Abbot of Cranbourne, founded the present abbey in 1092.

Further new windows, at £ 50 each, were put in the transept by Abbot Wallington ( also known as William of Wallingford ), who also had a new high altar screen made.

Under the great inspiration of Saint Anthony the Great ( 251-356 ), ascetic monks led by Saint Pachomius ( 286-346 ) formed the first Christian monastic communities under what became known as an Abbot, from the Aramaic abba ( father ).

It was formed as a daughter house of the Cistercian abbey at Morimond, perhaps after Lord Robert had met the Abbot of Morimond on the Second Crusade.

It is unlikely that Canna ever formed part of the territories of the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles, which title became forfeit in 1493, as Monro reported of " Kannay " in 1549 that the island was a: " faire maine land, foure myle lange, inhabit and manurit, with paroche kirke in it, guid for corne, fishing and grassing, with a falcon nest in it, pertines to the Abbot of Colmkill ", although it " burned with fire " as part of the feud between Clanranald and Maclean of Duart in the late 16th century.

The southern part, including the main towns of Dawlish, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth, formed the new Newton Abbot seat, while the northern portion formed part of Central Devon.

The term motorcade was coined by Lyle Abbot ( in 1912 or 1913 when he was automobile editor of the Arizona Republican ), and is formed after cavalcade on the false notion that "- cade " was a suffix meaning " procession ".

The earliest recorded reference to Kentwell is in the Domesday Book of 1086, which states that the manor of Kentwell ( along with six others ) formed part of the property of Frodo, brother of Abbot Baldwin, of the Abbey of St. Edmund's.

The former main altar of the hermitage church in Warfhuizen in the Netherlands with a mural of Anthony the Abbot and a reliquary with some of his relic s. Since then they have been moved to a new golden shrine on a side-altar especially made for them.

Almost as soon as Jerusalem had been captured, and continuing throughout the 12th century, many pilgrims arrived and left accounts of the new kingdom ; among them are the English Saewulf, the Russian Abbot Daniel, the Frank Fretellus, the Byzantine Johannes Phocas, and the Germans John of Würzburg and Theoderich.

He appears to have had military service but at some point joined the very new monastery at Melrose, under the prior Boisil ( d. 661, as Abbot ), with whom he seems to have had a particular relationship, reading with him on Boisil's deathbed.

Paris revised Roger's work, and that of Abbot John de Cella, adding new material to cover his own tenure.

In Norman times a substantial, new stone abbey, primarily designed as a convent, was built on the old Anglo-Saxon foundation ( circa 1130 to 1140 AD ) by Henry Blois, Bishop of Winchester and Abbot of Glastonbury.

He attempted to secure the right of Gilbert Foliot to remain Abbot of Gloucester after Foliot's election as Bishop of Hereford, but a new abbot was elected by the monks of Gloucester.

In October Merton discussed with the new Abbot his ongoing attraction to the Carthusian Order, to which Fox responded by assuring Merton that he belonged at Gethsemani.

* Williams, R. ( 1988 ) The Midland Railway: a new history, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, ISBN 0-7153-8750-2

Although he disapproved of the Second Crusade, he himself, at the time of his death, had started preaching a new crusade. Abbot Suger's chalice

With Frédéric Ozanam and the Abbot Maret, he launched a newspaper, L ' Ere Nouvelle ( The New Era ), to campaign for the rights of Catholics under the new regime.

Horrified by the cruelty and the exactions of his Breton ally, Philip Augustus offered Abbot Jourdain a grant for the construction of a new Gothic-style architectural set which included the addition of the refectory and cloister.

Few in Europe would have known of this immense new wealth in a kingdom so isolated that its bishops had virtually no contact with Rome, except that Ferdinand and his heirs ( the kings of León and Castile ) became the greatest benefactors of the Abbey of Cluny, where Abbot Hugh ( died 1109 ) undertook construction of the huge third abbey church, the cynosure of every eye.

When the director of the Gallery retired, Mellon requested Abbot not to appoint a successor, because he proposed to endow a new building, with funds for expansion of the collections, which would, in effect, be a rebirth of the Gallery.

The initial work on the case was done between 1072 and 1098 at Kells, but a new main face was added in the 14th century with a large seated Christ in Majesty flanked by scenes of the Crucifixion and saints in gilt repoussé ( NMI R2835, 25. 1 cm wide ). This was done by Cathbharr Ó Domhnaill, chief of the O ' Donnells and Domhnall Mag Robhartaigh, the Abbot of Kells.

An Abbot by the name of Ke Chen later had a new temple built on land donated by Sheng, Xuanhuai.

Petru Hall, which was used for the annual school auction after the orphans left, was demolished to make way for the new performing arts center, named St. Daniel Hall, after Abbot Daniel Kucera and Saint Daniel.

In 1632 the Ursuline convent of Flavigny was founded and in the early 18th century a new residence for the Abbot of Flavigny was constructed ; by that time the abbacy had become corrupt and was held by a layman who had little to do with the town.

Within the reform and the history of Norman monasticism, the reform of William of Volpiano was neither the beginning nor its climax, as a reformer he had to find a balance between local needs and problems and certain interests of the Cluniac Abbot, of the Pope, and of the Norman patrons, whose founding activities cultivated a new form of policy.

In 1796 Abbot commenced his career as a reformer in Parliament by obtaining the appointment of two committees the one to report on the arrangements which then existed as to temporary laws or laws about to expire, the other to devise methods for the better publication of new statutes.

A completely new ammunition family, comprising shells, fuzes and cartridges, was designed for Abbot, designated 105 mm Field ( 105 mm Fd ), was designed for Abbot's L13 ordnance.

In 1652 Roman Giel of Gielsberg, the Abbot of Kempten, commissioned the architects Michael Beer and Johann Serro from Graubünden to build St. Lorenz Basilica as a new church to serve the parish and monastery, including a representative residence for the Duke-Abbots.