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Date(s)
- 1 January 1936 - 31 December 1937 (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) 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