The Henson Journals
Thu 27 November 1930
Volume 51, Page 178
[178][sic]
Thursday, 27th November, 1930.
Mine host has two sons, Swithin and John, aged respectively six and three – very pleasant little fellows. I left Edinburgh at 10.15 a.m. and was met at Newcastle by Lang with the car.
The "Women's Offering", which amounted to something over £600, was presented to the Chapel after a short service. There had previously been a meeting in the State Room, at which Lady Thurlow gave an address, from which I gathered that she is far advanced in all the follies which meet in the arch–heresy of "Feminism". How much my predecessors escaped by being in an age which was innocent of "Church work"!
Mrs Stenhouse, the widow of Dr Stenhouse of Chester–le–Street, (who financed the Protestant agitation in Pelton) came to see me with reference to my (alleged) neglect of an (alleged) application for a licence to officiate made to me by her late husband. I could but say that neither I nor my chaplain had the faintest recollection of having received any such application. There is something more in all this than appear on the surface!