Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1 January 1945 - January 1952 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
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.
1945 – 20 pages
1946 – 12 pages
1947 - 12 pages
1947 – 13 pages
1948 – 7 pages
1949 – 6 pages
1950 – items pasted in but no diary entries
1951 – 7 pages
1952 – 1 sentence
Postcards
(i) woman and baby [possibly Catharine and her baby Richard]
Photographs from newspapers and publications
(i) effect of atomic bomb No. 3 which hit Nagasaki
(ii) John Edward Bernard Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone (1868-1947) [Army general and politician]
(iii) Winston Churchill, Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin at the signing of the Potsdam Agreement
(iv) Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley (1867-1947) [British Prime Minister on three occasions]
(v) W.R. Inge reading a lesson after his recent illness
(vi) Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles
(vii) W.R. Inge (aged 90) with his newborn grandchildren Nicholas and Caroline (twins)
(viii) W.R. Inge holding his twins grandchildren and with two other grandchildren and his son Edward and daughter in law Diana
Press cuttings
(i) 80th birthday of Kitty Inge
(ii) short article and photograph saying that ‘the gloomy Dean’ wasn’t looking ‘gloomy’ on his latest visit to London and that he was 87 years old [with photograph]
(iii) obituary of Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham (1863-1947)
(iv) obituary of Francis John Lys (1863-1947) [Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, and Vice Chancellor of the University]
(v) obituary of Sidney Arthur Alexander (1866-1948) [Canon and treasurer of St Paul’s Cathedral]
(vi) obituary of Dr Campbell Dodgson (1867-1948) [Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum]
(vii) obituary of James Gilliland Simpson (1865-1948) [Dean of Peterborough Cathedral]
(viii) birth rate statistics
(ix) obituary of Ernest Newton Sharpe (1866-1948) [Archdeacon of London]
(x) death and funeral of Kitty Inge [Mary Catharine Inge, wife of W.R. Inge]
(xi) lowest death rate for infants
Other
(i) birth rate figures for 1933 to 1946
(ii) telegram from King George VI and Queen Elizabeth on W.R. Inge’s 90th birthday; and a telegram from Queen Mary
(ii) letter from W.R. Inge to his daughter Catharine about his visit to London and the sermon he gave to 1,000 people, 21 Nov 1951