The Henson Journals

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S.S. Philip & James, May 1st, 1914.

I celebrated the Holy Communion in the Cathedral.

On Thursday, May 2nd, the Chapter was held. The morning's paper announced the appointment of the Bishop of Sheffield to the canonry vacated by the Bishop of Jarrow's acceptance of the Bishoprick of Bristol. Thus my attempt to get Gow appointed is defeated, & I am disconcerted & humiliated. The whole proceeding is hard to understand. Lang has shuffled off on to Durham the Bishop who had been left on his hands by the creation of the see of Sheffield. Moule has succeeded in renewing the corrupt arrangement by which he saves himself the cost of a suffragan by appropriating one of the Durham canonries. The salient outstanding fact is that the appointment has been made without any reference to the needs of the Foundation, & without any opportunity being given to me to state them.

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Issues and controversies: female suffrage