Legacy

In his book, The Hungry Spirit, Charles Handy reminisces about his father who was a rector in a small Protestant parish in Ireland for 40 years. "He did not have much to do with the wealth-creating part of the world, or with its products. …By the time I was eighteen, I had resolved never to be poor, never to go to church again. …

"Then my father died in the fullness of his years. I have written elsewhere about his funeral, but I was staggered by the numbers who came to say farewell to this quiet man and the emotion which they showed. He had clearly affected the lives of hundreds of people in ways I had never imagined. He had obviously got something right which I had been too obtuse to see. And, in the end, too late for him to know, he affected my life, too."