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Date(s)
- 1 January 1934 - 31 December 1935 (Creation)
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1 item, paper
Context area
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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) 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]