The Henson Journals

Fri 8 March 1912

Volume 17, Page 399

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Friday, March 8th, 1912.

The Confirmation was taken by Boyd Carpenter, as the Bp of Kensington failed through indisposition at the last moment.

The following 9 boys were confirmed:

1. Norman Ethelbert Box. aged 15.
2. Leslie Arthur Chandler. " 15.
3. Leslie Barclay Henry. " 15.
4. George Glen Henderson " 23.
5. William Bernard Clay. " 30.
6. Sydney Percival Frederick Dibben " 15.
7. Clarence William Tait " 17.
8. Thomas Maltby " 16.
9. Walter Tillcock " 16.

There were also confirmed 24 female candidates including Dorothy Tait, Beatrice & Dorothy Fox, & Margaret Douglas.

My 3rd Lecture on "Puritanism in England" was devoted to the "The Intellectual Failure of Puritanism". There was a poor attendance: but the weather was bad, & the strike has killed interest in everything else.