The Henson Journals

[54]

Thursday, September 6th, 1928.

Mr Macaulay, a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, who has already subscribed largely to the Fund for restoring Durham Castle, wrote to me promising to subscribe yet another £500, so soon as the work has actually begun.

I spent the morning in reading a very stimulating and masterly work by Dr R. H. Murray; 'The Political Consequences of the Reformation'. It abounds in luminous obiter dicta.

Lionel and I motored to Sunderland, stopping on the way to see the Bishop of Jarrow. I instituted, or rather collated the Rev. W. R. Dawson to the Rectory of Sunderland, in succession to the Revd Septimus Pates. The church, which is a large one, was crowded, and there was a fair muster of the local clergy. I was impressed by the squalid appearance of the considerable crowd which had gathered in the street to watch my departure. The population consists largely of Popish Irish, who are always the most squalid and criminous [sic] element of the population. The Revd Edgar Jackson acted as Rural Dean, & inducted the Rector after he had been collated.

---