Possible Clues:

• Humble setter gripped by churchman
• It might lower me to have the cleric round
• Humble of French chap accepting English
• Lower in standing
• Humble churchman going round Middle East
• Am in need of this to lower me
• It would get me down to get the dean around
• Dick Emery's beginnings: poor and humble
• Lower me with the dean around
• It would be beneath me to have the clergyman around