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heh.
I got 86 googlits. the earliest reference seems to be a statement made by Ralph Vaughan-Williams' wife about his religious beliefs. (or lack thereof...)
Vaughan Williams did not possess a conventional faith or belief. The son of an Anglican clergyman and a strict Christian mother, he managed to develop a deep-seated scepticism from an early age. As a Cambridge undergraduate he strode into Trinity College Hall demanding: ‘Who believes in God nowadays, I should like to know?’1; and according to Ursula Vaughan Williams: ‘He was an atheist during his later years at Charterhouse and at Cambridge, though he later drifted into a cheerful agnosticism: he was never a professing Christian.’
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/notes/67503-N.asp
welcome, nancy!
formerly known as etaoin...
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