The Henson Journals

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Monday, April 29th, 1929.

A very cold day. Winter is slow in going. Heaver came to lunch, and to report his engagement to a young woman in the parish. He said that his parents were contented that he should unite himself to a girl of 21 who was 'quite accomplished': but he thought it would be advisable for him to leave Crook. I recommended the vacant curacy at Houghton–le–Spring.

The Bishop of Barrow–in–Furness (Pelham) arrived in his motor about 6.30 p.m. His chauffeur hails from Barking. We had a good deal of talk together before turning in. His personal connexion with the diocese of Norwich, where his grandfather reigned as Bishop for many years in those far–off days when Bishops were Bishops in England, gives him both a keen interest in that diocese, and many opportunities of knowing what proceeds therein. But, perhaps, the same facts tend to create a hostile prejudice in his mind when the present Bishop is concerned. Anyway he gives an ill account of his Lordship.

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