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Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

At the end of December there is a summary of the year.

Pasted in:

Postcards
(i) Gregynog Hall
(ii) from a holiday to Greece and Dubrovnik, and a passenger list for the cruise
(iii) Kilpeck Church
(iv) Hereford
(v) Fountains Abbey; Ripon
(vi) Knaresborough
(vii) Harrogate Moor
(viii) Raith House
(ix) Kirkcaldy
(x) Manor House, Purse Caundle

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Bishop Charles Gore (1853-1932)
(ii) the caption is ‘Distinguished Visitors. The Poet Laureate [John Masefield] and Dean Inge are seen with the Rector and Mr R.V. Grimston M.P.
(iii) Sir Maurice de Bunsen (1852-1932), diplomat whose funeral Inge conducted
(iv) Dr John Primatt Maud (1860-1932), Bishop of Kensington
(v) Dr Lionel Ford (1865-1932), Dean of York and formerly Headmaster of Harrow
(vi) memorial window to Lord Meath unveiled in St Paul’s Cathedral
(vii) the Underwriting Room at Lloyds ‘ [insurance company]
(viii) Canterbury Cathedral taken from the air

Photographs
(i) W.R. Inge and his wife Kitty [in formal attire including a top hat]
(ii) W.R. Inge and two others carrying croquet mallets [the photograph is uncaptioned but is among entries of a holiday in Oxfordshire
(iii) Brightwell Manor near Wallingford which the Inge’s bought and moved to in 1934
(iv) Wootton, Oxfordshire

Press cuttings
(i) ‘Dissolution of the Universe. Dr Ing on Survival of Values’
(ii) ‘Fifty Years. The Church of England. Changes Within and Without’
(iii) the Prince of Wales attendance and speech at the festival dinner of the Missions to Seamen
(iv) Prince George being made a Bencher at Lincoln’s Inn
(v) obituary of Walter Wybergh How (1861-1932), Fellow of Merton College Oxford
(vi) a short poem by Bernard Shaw on how to pronounce W.R. Inge’s name
(vii) attendees at the annual dinner of the King’s College Association

Other
(i) agenda for the 36th annual meeting of the Union of Educational Institutions
(ii) Revd George Crabbe Centenary programme of commemoration and photograph of some of the attendees
(iii) list of addresses given at St Paul’s Cathedral by The Very Reverend W.R. Inge, 8-12 Feb 1932
(iv) seating plan for a dinner given at home by the Inges. The guests included the Countess Minto; Viscountess Sandhurst; Lady Emmott; Mr Rowe; Lord William and Lady Rothenstein; Lord Hugh Cecil; and the Principal of Kings
College
(v) seating plan for the Pepys dinner, held at Magdalene College, 23 Feb 1933
(vi) passenger list for a cruise

Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

At the end of December there is a summary of the year.

Pasted in:

Postcards
(i) Bembridge School
(ii) Compton Bay
(iii) Motlistone Church
(iv) Rusholme, Crockham Hill, Kent
(v) Manor House, Pause Caundle
(vi) Melbury Dorchester
(vii) Cloan Castle, Scotland
(viii) the church in Boston

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Right Revd Leonard Jauncey White-Thomson (1863-1933), the Bishop of Ely
(ii) Edward Talbot (1844-1934), Bishop of Winchester
(iii) King Albert I of Belgium who was killed in a rock climbing accident. A memorial service was held in St Paul’s Cathedral
(iv) the travelling dispensaries of the people’s Dispensary for Sick Animals which was driven to St Paul’s Cathedral for W.R. Inge to see
(v) Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury
(vi) William Temple , Archbishop of York
(vii) the new pedestrian crossing place outside Charing Cross Station
(viii) Dr Walter Robert Matthews who became Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral on W.R. Inge’s retirement in 1934
(ix) Mr W. Skinner (the Dean’s Verger at St Paul’s Cathedral) who was retiring after 57 years’ service receiving a presentation from W.R. Inge
(x) Lord Chesham, W.R. Inge, and the Duke of Sutherland at the Architects’ Banquet
(xi) garden party at Worcester College
(xii) Herbert Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham
(xiii) list of guests at a garden party given by Dr and Mrs Inge at Brightwell Manor
(ix) garden party at Broomhall given by Lord and Lady Elgin
(x) portrait of Sir Thomas Barlow by Oswold Birley
(xi) memorial window to the late Lord Dillon in Enstone Church, Oxfordshire

Photographs
(i) photograph of a display in a bookshop of copies of ‘Vale’ which was a short autobiographical work
(ii) W.R. Inge in his study, and photograph of W.R. Inge walking in the garden with his wife Kitty

Press cuttings
(i) meetings of the Classical Association
(ii) obituary of Stephen McKenna (1872-1934), translator of Plotinus
(iii) sale of paintings by the Royal Academy
(iv) announcement that W.R. Inge had taken up residence at the Manor House in Brightwell
(v) he had preached a sermon at Harvest Festival to a packed church
(vi) list of attendees and photograph of the Hertford College Gaudy
(vii) list of attendees at a dinner given at Trinity House, Tower Hill
(viii) W.R. Inge’s sermon at Emmanuel Church, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds [includes photograph]
(ix) W.R. Inge, his daughter Catharine, and Lord Stamford during a visit to Durham Hall [includes photograph]
(x) obituary of the Revd Stewart Andrew McDowall (1882-1935), chaplain and senior science master at Winchester College
(xi) obituary of William Maynard, three time Mayor of Shrewsbury

Menus and seating plans for various dinners
(i) menu for a St Paul’s Cathedral dinner at the Stationers’ Hall, 25 Jan 1934
(ii) seating plan for the St Paul’s dinner
(iii) menu for the Pepys dinner, Magdalene College, 23 Feb 1935
(iv) seating plan for a dinner at Gray’s Inn, 23 May 1935

Others
(i) drawing of Archbishop Davidson [former Archbishop of Canterbury]

Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

At the end of December there is a summary of the year.

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Postcards
(i) the exterior of the University Library in Cambridge and the catalogue room
(ii) Ingham [?]
(iii) Westwood Manor
(iv) Winchester. The Denery
(v) The Westgate, Winchester
(vi) The Deanery and Cathedral at Wells
(vii) Longleat House

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
(ii) King George V who died in 1936 [and a photograph of his successor King Edward VIII]
(iii) Sir Owen Seaman (1861-1936), editor of Punch
(iv) Professor John Scott Haldane (1860-1936), a Scottish physician, physiologist and philosopher
(v) Canon Alexander Nairne (1863-1936)
(vi) Charles John Darling, 1st Baron Darling (1849-1936), lawyer and High Court Judge
(vii) Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936)
(viii) W.R. Inge and Mrs Dudley Dwyre at the English Speaking Union dinner
(ix) Lord Hugh Cecil, the new Provost of Eton
(x) Ernest Murray Pollock, 1st Viscount Hanworth (1861-1936) [Conservative politician, lawyer and judge. Served as Master of the Rolls, 1923-1935]
(xi) Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon (1854-1937), Bishop of Calcutta; Dean of Manchester; and Dean of Durham
(xii) a view from Wadham College, Oxford, looking at the site cleared for the Bodleian Library extension
(xiii) Sir James Barrie in his study at Adelphi Terrace
(xiv) Rowland Edmund Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle (1851-1937) [agriculturalist, author, barrister, cricketer, cricket administrator, journalist, and Unionist politician]
(xv) Canon Burnett Hillman Streeter1874-1937) [highly influential English theologian, biblical scholar, and Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, he and his wife died in a commercial flying accident on 10 Sept 1937]
(xvi) Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler in a parade in an open topped car during Mussolini’s state visit to Germany in 1937
(xvii) William Foxley Norris (1859-1937) [Dean of York and Dean of Westminster. Described by Inge as ‘my old friend]
(xviii) Hugh Richard Lawries Sheppard (1880-1937) [Dean of Canterbury and Christian pacifist]
(xix) James Ramsay McDonald (1866-1937) [Prime Minister in 1924 and for a second time, 1929-1935]
(xx) Arthur Gray, Master of Jesus College Cambridge

Photographs
(i) W.R. Inge and Mrs Inge, Elizabeth Haladane, and Violet Carruthers and a photograph of just Elizabeth and Violet

Press cuttings
(i) newspaper article about an address given by W.R. Inge to the Historical Association at the London School of Economics
(ii) obituary of Lady Edith Davidson (widow of the former Archbishop of Canterbury)
(iii) ‘Poetry and Symbol in Religion. Dr Inge on Mysticism and Modernism. Bridges between Time and Eternity’
(iv) obituary of Charles Edward Haselfoot, oldest Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford
(v) abdication of King Edward VIII, with a photograph of the future George VI, his wife Elizabeth, and their two daughters Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret]
(vi) ‘The Modern Churchmen’s Union’
(vii) part of an article from the Times Literary Supplement which mentions W.R. Inge’s books
(viii) obituary of Philip de László (1869-1937) [portrait painter]
(ix) ‘Dr Inge on Price of Progress’
(x) obituary of Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937) [Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, and social welfare and nursing administrator. She managed the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh from 1901 and established the Voluntary Aid Detachment from 1908. She became the first female Justice of the Peace in Scotland in 1920. She was awarded an LLD from St Andrews University in 1906 and was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1918]

Other
(i) seating plan for the St Paul’s dinner, 1937

Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

At the end of December there is a summary of the year.

Pasted in:

Postcards
(i) Taormina, Sicily
(ii) Cairo, Egypt
(iii) Huis Doorn, the final home and exile residence of Kaiser Wilhelm II
(iv) marked ‘From the Scottish Exhibition’ – The Macdonald Children and Lord Newton both by Sir Henry Raeburn [colour]

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Sir Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938) [poet, novelist and historian]
(ii) King George VI and Queen Elizabeth with President Albert Lebrun and his wife Marguerite
(iii) King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
(iv) Canon Harold Athelstane Parry Sawyer (1865-1939) [Headmaster of Shrewsbury School]
(v) service in front of the War Memorial in Wallingford

Photographs
(i) uncaptioned photograph of a woman and two men sitting outside a bungalow with a veranda

Press cuttings
(i) list of attendees at the memorial service of Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane (1862-1937) [Scottish author, biographer, philosopher, suffragist, and social welfare and nursing administrator]
(ii) ‘The Future of the Church. Interview with Dean Inge’
(iii) obituary of Sir Stanley Leathes (1861-1938) [poet, economist, historian and senior Civil Service administrator, being the First Civil Service Commissioner from 1910 to 1927]
(iv) small extract about Mrs Inge from ‘Great Thoughts’ by Cecil Hunt
(v) announcement of the appointment of Richard Inge [son of W.R. Inge] to a curacy in Horsforth, Yorkshire
(vi) obituary of Canon Alan England Brooke (1863-1939) [Provost of King’s College Cambridge]
(vii) ‘Peace Aims. Commandments for the Post-War World’
(viii) notice that William Skinner, Dean’s Verger at St Paul’s Cathedral, had just celebrated his 88th birthday
(ix) from the Evening Standard ‘Dear Dr Inge Your Pacifist Arguments are all Wrong’ says Field-Marshall Lord Milne

Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

Covers 1940-1941
Jan-July 1942 and then Aug, Sept, and Nov 1942 are on 1 page and Dec covers 3 pages
1943 - 15 pages
1944 - 10 pages

At the end of December there is a summary of the year.

Pasted in:

Postcards
(i) Forde Abbey

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher (1865-1940) [historian, educator, and Liberal politician]
(ii) the wreckage of the High Altar at St Paul’s Cathedral
(iii) Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret sitting at a desk with a microphone
(iv) Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940) [British Prime Minister]
(v) the wrecked part of the Precentor’s House at Eton after a raid
(vi) Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941) [founder of The Boy Scouts Association]
(vii) announcement of the engagement between Edward Inge [W.R. Inge’s second son] and Diana Paine
(viii) Revd Richard Inge son of W.R. Inge) who was killed on active service
(ix) Kaiser Wilhem II (1859-1941) [German Emperor]
(x) W.W. Cash (Bishop of Worcester); N.B. Hudson (Bishop of Newcastle); F.R. Barry (Bishop of Southwell); R.G. Parsons (Bishop of Hereford); E.M. Milner-White (Dean of York)
(xi) Edward Lyttelton (1855-1942) [Headmaster of Eton College]

Press cuttings
(i) letter from H.G. Wells on ‘Victorian Socialism’
(ii) 20 Jan 1940 was the coldest for 59 years
(iii) obituary for Edward Littleton Vaughan (1851-1940) [assistant master at Eton College]
(iv) obituary for Canon Henry Thomas Bowlby (1864-1940) [Headmaster of Lancing College]
(v) obituary for John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir (1875-1940) [Scottish novelist, historian, British Army Officer, Union politician, and Governor General of Canada]
(vi) obituary from The Times of Edward Frederick Benson (1867-1940) [novelist]
(vii) obituary of Henry George Alan Percy, 9th Duke of Northumberland (1912-1940)
(viii) obituary of Sub-Lieutenant Michael Harrington Matthews [eldest son of the Dean of St Paul’s]
(ix) obituary of Canon Vernon Faithfull Storr (1869-1940) [Archdeacon of Westminster]
(x) ‘Falling Idols. Dr Inge on the World Today’
(xi) obituaries of Revd Richard Inge (son of W.R. Inge) who was killed on active service
(xii) wedding of Edward Inge and Diana Paine [with photograph]
(xiii) obituary for Miss Mary Alice Douglas (1860–1941) [Head of Godolphin School]
(ix) obituary of Herbert Edward Douglas Blakiston (1862-1942) [President of Trinity College, Oxford, and Vice Chancellor of the University]
(x) obituary of John Henry Joshua Ellison (1855-1944) [chaplain-in-ordinary o the King]
(xi) wedding of Catharine Inge (daughter of W.R. Inge) and Derek Roland Wigram [with photograph]

Other
(i) flyer for a Presidential Debate at the Oxford Union Society. Dr Inge and Mr Hannen Swaffer to debate whether a censorship of the press should be imposed in the interests of morality.

Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.

1945 – 20 pages
1946 – 12 pages
1947 - 12 pages
1947 – 13 pages
1948 – 7 pages
1949 – 6 pages
1950 – items pasted in but no diary entries
1951 – 7 pages
1952 – 1 sentence

Postcards
(i) woman and baby [possibly Catharine and her baby Richard]

Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) effect of atomic bomb No. 3 which hit Nagasaki
(ii) John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868-1947) [Army general and politician]
(iii) Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin at the signing of the Potsdam Agreement
(iv) Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947) [British Prime Minister on three occasions]
(v) W.R. Inge reading a lesson after his recent illness
(vi) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles
(vii) W.R. Inge (aged 90) with his newborn grandchildren Nicholas and Caroline (twins)
(viii) W.R. Inge holding his twins grandchildren and with two other grandchildren and his son Edward and daughter in law Diana

Press cuttings
(i) 80th birthday of Kitty Inge
(ii) short article and photograph saying that ‘the gloomy Dean’ wasn’t looking ‘gloomy’ on his latest visit to London and that he was 87 years old [with photograph]
(iii) obituary of Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham (1863-1947)
(iv) obituary of Francis John Lys (1863-1947) [Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and Vice Chancellor of the University]
(v) obituary of Sidney Arthur Alexander (1866-1948) [Canon and treasurer of St Paul’s Cathedral]
(vi) obituary of Dr Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) [Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum]
(vii) obituary of James Gilliland Simpson (1865-1948) [Dean of Peterborough Cathedral]
(viii) birth rate statistics
(ix) obituary of Ernest Newton Sharpe (1866-1948) [Archdeacon of London]
(x) death and funeral of Kitty Inge [Mary Catharine Inge, wife of W.R. Inge]
(xi) lowest death rate for infants

Other
(i) birth rate figures for 1933 to 1946
(ii) telegram from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on W.R. Inge’s 90th birthday; and a telegram from Queen Mary
(ii) letter from W.R. Inge to his daughter Catharine about his visit to London and the sermon he gave to 1,000 people, 21 Nov 1951

Framed black and white photograph of W.S. Wigglesworth (Vicar-General, York and Dean of Arches, Canterbury).

9 x-rays, taken on the 4th and 12th March 1953, of Francis Turner's head, showing the facial injuries he sustained during the First World War.

Also includes a letter (with envelope) from Dr. Brian Donnelly to Dr. J.D. Simpson, discussing the results of the x-rays that J.D. Simpson requested.