Preece Family Tree

Mr. Henry Preece, the veteran organ-blower of Llandaff Cathedral, is styled the "doctor of blowers." He takes great pride in enumerating the "pupils" that have "blossomed into flowers" under his "tuition." Amongst these he claims Mr. Wilkes, Mr. Hamilton Clarke, Dr. Gladstone, and all other organists and students, past, present, and future. At local Church gatherings Mr. Preece is always in evidence with his celebrated self-constructed toast, "May the Church of England be as firm as the butt of an oak, and her members as numerous as the leaves thereof." The "doctor of blowers" is regarded as an accomplished pneumatic agent.