Robin Ghyll, Langdale, Ambleside. - As he and Janet have 'hoped and expected' for a while, Mary has got engaged to John Moorman, who came to Hallington for a week in August; they met in June, at the Cornfords' musical parties in Cambridge. He left Cambridge this year, having stayed after his degree to train as a clergyman, and is now a curate in Leeds; he studied under [George Gordon] Coulton, who 'thinks highly of him'. He is 'liberal-minded', and George has discussed religion and history with him 'with much agreement and no feeling of barrier'. Moorman is also a 'fine walker' and is 'small but wiry'; his father was Professor of English at Leeds, and his mother is 'much respected in academic circles', and matron of a University hall in Leeds; their closest family friend is [Arthur] Grant, recently retired from the History Professorship there, a 'first-rate man'. Moorman's 'most intimate older and younger friends are Bishop Wyld [sic: Herbert Wild, Bishop of Newcastle], who conducted George and Bob's parents' funerals, and his son [John?]; in fact his 'whole entourage and atmosphere is about equally academic and clerical'. Thinks he will suit Mary very well, though 'not many people would', so he and Janet are much pleased.
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30 Sept 1929
Part of Papers of Robert Calverley Trevelyan and Elizabeth Trevelyan
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7 Jun. 1945
Part of Mayor Papers
Coming to London to evict his Czechoslovak tenants: Oak Bank, Shaw Lane, Leeds
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26 Apr. 1946
Part of Mayor Papers
Happy to have returned to Leeds, Verrall on Euripides, Grant believes the Alcestis to be a black comedy: 4 Oak Bank, Shaw Lane, Leeds
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24 Nov. 1946
Part of Mayor Papers
Reading all on Abyssinia: 4 Oak Bank, Shaw Lane, Leeds
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29 Nov. 1946
Part of Mayor Papers
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2 Jan. 1947
Part of Mayor Papers
Brother's funeral makes it impossible to be with Mayor: 4 Oak Bank, Shaw Lane, Leeds