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For he's a jolly good Kellow?

You can hear some of his Anglican chants from time to time, but I think that's about it.

But what were this guy's parent thinking exactly?

I don't know, but I'll tell you what I started thinking.

In my ongoing quest to crack the Anglican Code, I wondered if Pye wasn't just coming up with a clever take on the composer Christopher Tye.

And Kellow is so close to fellow. Perhaps he truly did want to be a fellow composer with Tye.

So in "Kellow", before K we have

F G H I J
1 2 3 4 5

five letters to get to Fellow.

After P, we have

Q R S T
1 2 3 4

four letters to get to Tye.

So we have the numbers five and four, and let's put this together with the middle name, which is John:

Now, normally I would post John 5:4 here, but go check your bible real fast because it's not there! John 5:4 does not exist!

And so, the plot thickens.

Translation tangent: If you are reading John 5:4, something about an angel in a pool, you're reading a bad translation. Or not the NRSV at any rate.

Beethoven tangent: I'm not really sure what's going on here, but Pye's name is listed a lot.

Unrelated clothing tangent: Blue dress shirts with white collars are pure evil! I just want to be crystal clear about that.

UPDATE: (12 Sep 00:15) Less than a week after publishing this article, Sinden.org is Google's first result for "Kellow J Pye."