1. Robert Lionel Fanthorpe was born on 9 February 1935 and is a retired British priest and entertainer.
15 Facts About Lionel Fanthorpe
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Lionel Fanthorpe left school aged 15 and married Patricia Alice Tooke was born on 1938 and in 1957.
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Lionel Fanthorpe attended the teacher-training course at Keswick Hall College in Norwich between 1961 and 1963, where he achieved Distinctions in Educational Theory and Practice and in Advanced Main Theology as part of his Certificate in Education.
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Lionel Fanthorpe was a schoolmaster at Dereham Secondary Modern School from 1958 to 1961 and again from 1963 to 1967, and a Further Education Tutor based at Gamlingay Village College from 1967 to 1969.
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Lionel Fanthorpe was Industrial Training Manager for the Phoenix Timber Group of Companies in Rainham from 1969 to 1972, Head of English and then Deputy Headteacher at Hellesdon High School near Norwich from 1972 to 1979, and Headmaster of Glyn Derw High School in Cardiff from 1979 to 1989.
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Lionel Fanthorpe was ordained as a non-stipendiary Anglican priest in the Church in Wales in 1987, is a minister of the Universal Life Church, and was at one time a Freemason in Bowers Lodge in Norwich.
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Lionel Fanthorpe is the author or co-author of more than 250 books.
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Lionel Fanthorpe has been president of the British UFO Research Association and is the president of the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.
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Lionel Fanthorpe presented Channel 4's Fortean TV and has made many appearances at Fortean Times magazine's UnCon, most recently in October 2004 when he gave a talk on "The Knights Templar and their Ancient Secrets".
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Lionel Fanthorpe is a Fellow of the College of Preceptors and the Chartered Management Institute.
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Lionel Fanthorpe is a member of the high IQ society Mensa and the paranormal research society the Ghost Club.
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Lionel Fanthorpe has been a frequent guest of the late night American radio talk show Coast to Coast AM.
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Lionel Fanthorpe was Director of Media Studies and teacher of Religious Studies at the Sixth form college the Cardiff Academy in Cardiff in South Wales.
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Lionel Fanthorpe wrote and narrated several episodes of The Fanthorpe Investigations for BBC Radio.
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Lionel Fanthorpe began working for Badger Books in the early 1950s, and over the period of the next 15 years produced many books under different pseudonyms, some of which were pen-names shared with other of Badger Books' writers.