Had a cricket net - thought form quite decent. Dennis Silk now a shooting man. Geoffrey Keynes resigned his trusteeship of the Rupert Brooke papers [?]
Opinion of the Suez crisis. Visits from Dennis Silk, M Melhuish, Robin Marlar and S C Roberts. Review of Sequences in the Sunday Times. Repairs to fabric of Heytesbury House.
Saw a Ted Dexter century at Fenners, Thought it pathetic that some varsity cricketers were studying while playing. Had nets with Dennis and was batting well. H M Tomlinson suffered two strokes an recuperating at Abbotsbury.. Robert Frost's reading at Cambridge was wonderful.
Visit to Cambridge for George Sassoon's birthday. faith through prayer. The authority of the Catholic church. Reading the sermons of Ronald Knox.Dennis Silk to tour [East] Africa with the MCC.
Papers including programmes, invitation, tickets, estimates, invoices.
Papers relating to College matters including refitting Fellow's Library, a table plan for Honorary Degrees luncheon 1969 and Boat Club newsletter, 1976/7.
Personal, household and estate accounts, apparently of Revd Edmond Riland Williamson, but possibly also of his father, Edmund Williamson.
Includes accounts relating to property at Kempston, Campton and Shefford (all Beds), food, wine and beer, coal, rates, children's education, repairs and insurance.
Loose papers include accounts for surveying and selling property at Bethnal Green, (Middlesex), 1822-1825, accounts of payments to Curates, 1829-1832, and map of field showing site for school
Notes: Edmund Williamson was Rector of Campton with Shefford, 1791-1839. Edmond Riland Williamson (admitted 1814) was Rector of Campton with Shefford, 1839-1864, and lord of the manor of Kempston-Daubeny; he was the uncle of Edward Atkinson's wife, and died in 1864.
File contains:
(1) article from Clare College website about Tony Badger's induction as Master
(2) invitation to a buffet lunch held in honour of the occasion
(3) invitation to the induction service in Chapel
(4) brief biographical details
(5) copy of photograph
Biographical material and two engravings of John Berridge (Fellow and clergyman).