The Henson Journals

Fri 29 May 1914

Volume 19, Page 199

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Friday, May 29th, 1914.

The news arrived of a disastrous shipwreck. That fine steamer. "The Empress of Ireland", in which we returned from Canada five years ago, and went to Canada in 1912, has been in collision, & foundered in the Gulf of St Lawrence. It is said, but probably the number is exaggerated, that 1000 passengers & crew have perished.

After Evensong the clergy & choir ascended the great tower, & sang the customary anthems.

Yesterday we elected the following boys to be King's Scholars:–

  1. Kirby, Robert Fry. honorary
  2. Duff, Arnold Mackay £40 per annum
  3. Wright, James Brown £40 per annum
  4. Gee, Thomas Richard Douglas £30
  5. Wattsford. £25.

We arranged that Arthur Morgan, the Chorister, should go to the school as a boarder for a year: & then, if the headmaster reports well of him, should be elected a King's Scholar in 1915. He is clearly below a tolerable standard this year.

24 May 1914
30 May 1914