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- 1 January 1930 - 1 September 1931 (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) 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