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- 1 January 1928 - 31 December 1929 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
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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) 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