The Henson Journals
Fri 3 June 1927
Volume 42, Pages 115 to 116
[115]
Friday, June 3rd, 1927.
I wrote a sermon for use at Ryhope next Wednesday. Jimmie came to lunch and stayed to dinner. A numerous company came to play tennis. Dr & Mrs Spooner with a party of friends came to tea, and were shown the Castle. Mead–Falkner came also, & I had much talk with him about the appointment to the Chair of Greek. He had just received the gratifying announcement that he had been elected an hon: fellow of Hertford. We went through the names which I had collected, & agreed that Richards of Oriel was plainly the best of them. I wish he were not an Anglo–Catholic and a Welshman. For the first there is always the white sheet: but for the last, the dolorous question of the prophet holds, Can the Ethiopian change his skin? or the leopard his spots?
Mrs Rogers, a grand–daughter of Bishop Maltby has deceased, and in her will has left to the See of Durham a picture of Auckland Castle by J. W. Carmichael.
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James Wilson Carmichael (1800–1868), marine painter, was born at Newcastle–upon–Tyne in 1800. At about the age of 10 or 11 he went to sea. He returned, & was apprenticed to a shipbuilder, who employed him in drawing and designing. His early works are in water colours, but about 1825 he began to paint in oils. Between 1838 and 1862 he was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, at the British Institute, & at the Suffolk Street Gallery. About 1845 he left Newcastle for London. Probably about 1862 (at which date he ceased to exhibit in London) he went to Scarborough, & there died on 2 May, 1868. In the north of England his work was highly thought of. He appears as an author, having published 'The Art of Marine Painting in Water Colours'. 1859, and 'The Art of Marine Painting in Oil Colours'. 1864.
(v. Dictionary of National Biography)
Professor Bury died two days ago. I remember meeting him years ago when he was a young Irishman with red hair, a high complexion, and an alert manner. He is said to have been an atheist, & the statement receives confirmation from the offensive little volume on "The History of Free Thought" – which he contributed to "The Home & University Library".