Already subscribed? Log in. Forgotten your password? Want an ad-free experience? Considering he is unlikely to make a penny out of all this research and hard work in the remastering room, this really is a genuine labour of love.
Hopefully, we can move forward and do more projects this way. It was only in October , four months before he died, that it was revealed Peter had a lifelong wish to be ordained in the Church of England.
The Bishop of Truro made it happen for him. By that time, an inoperable brain tumour had made Peter seriously ill and when he died he was survived by wife Diana, two children and four grandchildren. Peter moved around a lot and that is why he is very hard to pigeonhole. Skellern, 69, died from brain cancer on February 17 this year just four months after being given the unusual honour of being ordained as a priest and a deacon on the same day.
But after his outstanding affairs had been settled, this produced a net estate of nil. The composer is survived by his wife Diana, their two children and four grandchildren. He wrote and sang the theme for the series Billy Liar and composed the signature tune for The Life and Times of Henry Pratt He later wrote religious music including a Nativity Cantata for the Aeolian Singers of Hemel Hempstead and conducted a choir in Polruan, Cornwall, where he settled in He was accepted for ordination training in but was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour shortly afterwards.
He completed his training and became a minister last October when the archbishop of Canterbury approved his simultaneous ordination as deacon and priest.
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