The Henson Journals
Wed 24 October 1928
Volume 46, Page 138
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Wednesday, October 24th, 1928.
The morning post brought the ill news that Fuller, Vicar of Norton was gravely ill with double pneumonia, and this was followed in the evening by a telegram saying that he had died. This removes yet another of the abler incumbents. Morris, the vicar of St. Oswald's Durham, informs that he has accepted a transfer to the South & will be leaving the diocese immediately. Then I wrote to Hunter, the Rector of Ryton, telling him frankly that the state of his health made it his duty to resign the benefice.
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The Countess of Carlisle and Mr. Duff Cooper came to lunch. Also Sybil, Lady Eden & Latimer. Whilst the ladies were at the sale in the Town Hall, I walked round the Park with Duff Cooper whom I found both interesting & intelligent.
Nicholson, the assistant curate of Ryton, came to see me. I gave him permission to continue officiating in that parish until the end of the year.
The weather today has been tempestuous & raining, altogether as comfortless as possible. I started after dinner to read 'Pilgrim's Progress' again, in order that I might be the better qualified for appraising the denunciatory abuse of Mr. Alfred Noyes in 'The Bookman'.