This is marked by W.R. Inge as 'Vol I'.
Vols 1-20 have been written in pre printed appointments style diaries. This is a blank notebook with prose.
Pasted in:
(1) a newspaper obituary of Mr Charles Henry Inge
(2) programme for an acting entertainment which took place in the Lodge at Jesus College and was performed by the children of the Master Henry Morgan - Blenda, Conway, Iris, Coral, and Gerda
(3) two postcards from Ripon
(4) a post card of Trengwainton House
(5) two postcards of Salisbury Cathedral
(6) press cuttings about the re-opening of Newton Church after restoration
This is marked by W.R. Inge as 'Vol II'.
Vols 1-20 have been written in pre printed appointments style diaries. This is a blank notebook with prose.
Pasted in:
Postcards
(i) South Holmwood Church
(ii) Arlescote, Edge Hills
(iii) Williamscot House
(iv) Compton Wynyates
(v) Kirkby Stephen
(vi) Farnham Castle (colour)
(vii) Peterborough Cathedral
Seating plans and menus
(i) seating plan for a dinner at Trinity College, 29 May 1908
(ii) seating plan for a dinner at Gonville and Caius College, 17 June 1908
(iii) menu for a dinner held at Trinity College, 17 June 1908, for the inauguration of William Hepworth Thompson, as Chancellor
Press cuttings
(i) recipients of Honorary Degrees
(ii) from the Church Family Newspaper, 24 Jul 1908 of an article written by Dean Inge expressing his views on the proposal for reunion between the Anglicans and Presbyterians
(iii) 'The Education Settlement Committee'
(iv) funeral of Sir Henry Katz Davson
(v) Eugenics Education Society
(vi) 'The Care of the Feeble Minded'
(vi) scholarships
Other
(i) photograph of William Hepworth Thompson processing with his robes being held up
(ii) three photographs of Milton Court
(iii) Eton Founder's Day programme, 5 Dec 1908
(iv) obituary of the Revd Richard Appleton, Master of Selwyn College
(v) picture of Admiral E. Neville Rolfe, churchwarden of St Margaret's, Westminster, 1904-1909
Vols 1-20 have been written in pre printed appointments style diaries. This is a blank notebook with prose.
There is a summary of the year written on 31 December of each year.
Vols 1-20 have been written in pre printed appointments style diaries. This is a blank notebook with prose.
There is a summary of the year written on 31 December of each year.
Vols 1-20 have been written in pre printed appointments style diaries. This is a blank notebook with prose.
There is a summary of the year written at the end.
Entries have been made in a pre printed appointments style diary up until 18 May. The ret of the diary is blank.
Entries have been made in a plain notebook rather than a re printed diary.
There is a gap between 9 January 1919 and 22 June 1919 due to his wife's illness.
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.
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.
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) unnamed country house
(ii) Norwich Cathedral
(iii) Armagh Palace
(iv) Court House, Painswick (colour)
(v) Bishop Auckland Castle
(vi) Kinnairdy
(vii) Gwynfa, Painswick and Painswick House, and Painswick Church
(ix) St Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh
(viii) view of the sea near Shanklin
Pictures from newspapers and publications
(i) Mr J.F.P. Rawlinson (MP for Cambridge University)
(ii) George A. Birmingham
(iii) Sir Walter Durnford
(iv) Deans of England meeting in Norwich
(v) Charles Macpherson
(vi) Stanley Marchant
Photographs
(i) Stowe Hill
(ii) Hartlebury Castle
(iii) Charterhouse, Coventry
Press cuttings
(i) a dinner given by the Swedish Minister and Baroness Palmstierna
(ii) scorecard of Eton v Winchester
(iii) The Times about Rudyard Kipling
(iv) Annual Reunion of the Deans of English Cathedrals - Programme of the Meeting held at Norwich, 19-21 July 1926
(v) British Academy's new home in Burlington House
Other
(i) obituary from the newspaper of Mr H.E. Luxmoore, a master at Eton for over 40 years
(ii) seating plan for the Hibbert Dinner, 24 June 1927
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) Purse Caundle Manor (Dorset)
Pictures from newspapers and publications
(i) Miss Catharine Inge (W.R. Inge's daughter) from a newspaper describing her as 'a charming debutante'
(ii) Dr William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury Cathedral (1836-1928)
(iii) Lord Haldane (1856-1928)
(iv) Sir Horace Darwin (1851-1928, son of Charles Darwin)
(v) an older couple with a school boy [no caption]
(vi) Canon Elliott 'our newly appointed Canon'
(vii) the new Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of London, Sir J.E. Kynaston Studd and Lady Studd
(viii) the outgoing Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Randall Davidson and his successor Cosmo Gordon Lang
(ix) Dr Winfrid Oldfield Burrows (1858–1929)
(x) Richard Knight Causton, 1st Baron Southwark (1843-1929)
(xi) W.R. Inge, his wife Kitty and their daughter Catharine arriving at the Royal Academy for the private viewing day
(xii) the King and Queen (George V and Queen Mary) returning to London in a carriage after the King's long illness
(xiii) scaffolding inside the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
(xiv) the memorial to Anthony Van Dyck
(xv) crowds outside St Paul's Cathedral for the Armistice Day Service
Press cuttings
(i) restoration work in the dome of St Paul's Cathedral
(ii) article and photograph of attendees at a British Academy dinner
(iii) luncheon hosted by Lady Newton
(iv) from The Times - 'Old Etonians. Traditions of the School. Lord Mayors Guests'
(v) the death of Canon Henry Maxwell Spooner, aged 84
(vi) cricket scorecard for Nottinghamshire v Kent
(vii) obituary of Mr Hugh Vibart MacNaghten, Vice-Provost of Eton [He drowned himself in a fit of depression]
(viii) wedding of the Revd Robert Douglas Richardson, vicar of Four-Oaks, and Professor Linetta Palamidessi de Castelvecchio
(ix) W.R. Inge's sermon in Norwich
Photographs
(i) the exterior of Montecute House (Somerset)
(ii) three uncaptioned photographs of a man in shorts with a dog
Other
(i) dinner invitation from the Society of Civil Engineers, 27 June 1928
(ii) Bembridge School Foundation Day, 6 July 1928
(iii) seating plan for a British Academy Lunch held at the Princes' Hotel, 24 July 1928
(iv) items from a visit to Geneva - photograph of Inge with two other unidentified men; a postcard of Pavillion Du Lac, Genthod; an order of service; and an entry ticket to the 9th Assemblée de la Société des Nations
(v) Hellenic Travellers' Club landing and embarking ticket
(vi) pencil drawing of Babington House, Somerset, with manuscript addition 'with every good wish to you all, D.K.' [the house was owned by the Knatchbull family]
Loose at the back
(i) Hellenic travellers Club cruise passenger list, 1929
(ii) programme for the play The Phormio of Terence performed at St Peter's College, Westminster
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) Crawford Priory, Springfield
(ii) Bishopthorpe Palace
(iii) photographs and postcards from their cruise including the River Jordan; Mount Tabor; Nazareth; Mount of Beatitudes; Tiberias; ruins of Capernaum; and Rhodes
(iv) from his cruise including from Malta and Split
(v) Rose Castle, Carlisle
(vi) the Pinnacles, Cheddar Gorge
(vii) Mells, Somerset
(viii) Plas Tan-Y-Bwlch from the river
Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate (1844-1930)
(ii) The Ven. E.E. Holmes, Archdeacon of London (1911-1930) and The Ven. E.N. Sharpe, Archdeacon of London (1930)
(iii) the Armistice Day service on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, 1929
(iv) school boys playing cricket on a roof
(v) Dean Inge; the Vicar of Jesmond; and the Revd F.S. Craggs at the Jesmond Conference of Clergy and Laity
(vi) Randall Davidson, (1848–1930) former Archbishop of Canterbury and one of him in his study
(vii) Bishop George Forrest Browne (1833-1930)
(viii) Frederick Edwin Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (1872-1930)
(ix) Dr Friedrich Sthamer (1856–1931), German Ambassador in London
Press cuttings
(i) W.R. Inge’s visit to a conference in Bristol
(ii) ‘Religion. The Responsibility of Teachers. Principal Garvie on Bible Study. Dean Inge on the Intellectual Standpoint’
(iii) article from a newspaper – ‘Church’s Main Battle. Dean Inge at Newcastle Conference. The Marriage Vow. Modern Fiction that is Causing Alarm’.
(iv) Dundee Chronicle including photograph of Honorary Graduates of St Andrews University [including W.R. Inge]
(v) article and photograph from The Leeds Mercury about W.R. Inge’s visit to Leeds. Shown in the photograph with his host Mr C.J.F. Atkinson
(vi) obituary from The Times of Dr William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford and originator of the term ‘spoonerisms’
(vii) new school building at Shrewsbury
(viii) review of W.R. Inge’s book, ‘Christian Ethics and Modern Problems’
(ix) list of guests who were attending a dinner given by the Salters’ Company [W.R. Inge ‘had great fun sitting next to HG Wells]
(x) article and photograph about W.R. Inge’s lecture at the Student Union at Glasgow University
(xi) describing the dresses of Mrs Kitty Inge when she presented Mrs R. Percy Hodder-Williams [wife of the Director of Hodder& Stoughton Ltd] at Court
Photographs
(i) Babington House, Somerset
(ii) memorial to the Revd Richard Harris Barham
(iii) two photographs of clergy – the caption isn’t clear but it includes the Bishop of Llandrindod
(iv) W.R. Inge and his wife Kitty [formal clothes including top hat]
(v) memorial to the very Revd William Page Roberts, Dean of Salisbury; the Archbishop of Uppsala; and Professor Pringle-Pattinson
Other
(i) seating plan for a dinner hosted by the Prince of Wales at St James’s palace, 12 Dec 1930
(ii) a list of candidates for confirmation, 13 Dec 1930
(iii) menu and seating plan for a dinner a St Paul’s Cathedral dinner at the Stationers’ Hall, 26 Jan 1931
(iv) letter from Arthur Hird wishing him a happy 71st birthday
(v) seating plan for a dinner for 11 guests given ‘at home’, guests include Sir Owen Seaman, Sir Robert and Lady Witt, Sir Lawrence and Lady Jones; Sir Edgar and Lady Bonham Carter and the Bishop of Southwark
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.
Pasted in:
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