Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1 January 1940 - 31 December 1944 (Creation)
Level of description
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1 item, paper
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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.