The Henson Journals

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Thursday, October 5th, 1911.

I returned from Stoke–on–Trent where I had attended the Church Congress. Beyond preaching two sermons on the preceding Sunday, at the parish churches of Newcastle–under–Lyme & Stoke respectively, and making two brief speeches at the Welsh Disestablishment meeting on Wednesday, & at the Prayer Book Revision debate this morning, I did nothing. On Tuesday I went off to Bolton, & addressed a meeting in the Town Hall for the Bible Society.

The Bishop of Lichfield entertained a numerous party at Keele Hall, a large house belonging to the Sneyd family. The Park is extensive, the gardens ample & varied. A splendid holly hedge, said to be the largest in the world, is truly a notable sight.

Today the 'Times' announces the appointment of the Bishop of Ripon, & Pearce, to the vacant Westminster canonries .

On my return I found a note from Troutbeck accompanying a Dresden clock, which had been bequeathed by Dean Stanley to Duckworth, & by him to me. Also, a letter from the Dean asking me to be Sub–Dean.

Among the guests at Keele were Sir Frank Lascelles, the Bishops of London, S. David's, & Worcester, the American Bishop of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Inge, Burrows, Headlam, & Lord Barnard.

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Issues and controversies: welsh disestablishment; prayer book revision