In addressing this issue, there is the further complication that the term "Protestant" has no positive content and can be applied to any group that claims to be Christian while not being either Catholic or Orthodox.

In the imagination of many Thatcher was thought to have taken revenge on the liberal tradition in the Church by refusing to accept Habgood as Runcie's successor and choosing the more conservative Carey, a leading evangelical teacher. Carey however later revealed in his memoirs that before he had taken the post he had received reassurances that he was the first choice of the Commission.

Lower middle-class riffraff such as myself need never have applied. Iwerne was, thankfully, not open to us. The camps do deserve credit for giving the world Rev. John Stott, but they also established an old boy network that dominated Anglican evangelicalism in England for decades. And under cover of this, they gave the world John Smyth and his ilk.

He ran summer camps for the Iwerne Trust. Only the poshest boys from the poshest schools were invited as future leaders of state and church. In 1984, with murmured suspicions about his activities breaking surface, he slipped over to Zimbabwe to start camps of his own there. This culminated in his arrest in 1997 on suspicion of culpable homicide, as part of the investigation into the drowning of Guide Nyachuru, a 16 year old at the Marondera camp.