25 July 1941: consecration of the Rev Canon Bryan Percival Robin (1887-1969), Rector of Holy Cross Woodchurch (Diocese of Chester), at Westminster Abbey, to succeed A Nutter Thomas as fifth Bishop of Adelaide (last Englishman in that role). #anglican #84years No.100 in the Australian episcopate.
6 June 1941: death of Mr Guy Worthington Halcombe, aged 70. First Chancellor of the Diocese of Willochra from 1916, and concurrently Chancellor of the Diocese of Adelaide 1919-1930. #anglican #84years (Earlier attached item from 1928.)
Photo of my Bob Dylan-inspired-and-dedicated sonnet “A bent rainbow” from my second chapbook, “Shaking the Wind.” “A bent rainbow.” For Dylan and for Dover The light, dying, dinged the rainclouds that had rolled in above Dover and had closed up like an iron vest and then would not part adter the rain let up. If the sun had just not gone so far down it may have given something more to us than one seven-shade beam to hold back the storm’s remnants—and we saw that from beneath the windows in the consolation of the twilight falling. That’s it. And then in our desolation we saw that was bent—gravity had got it too.
Late posting this out for the day itself, but #HappyBirthday #BobDylan
A sonnet from my second chapbook and featuring multiple Dylan allusions. I was living in Dover, NH, that summer—I went out after a rain, Bob’d just won the Nobel, I saw the rainbow—the poem just was. #84years #14lines
Remembering today Sir Edward Fancourt Mitchell KC KCMG, who died on 7 May 1941, aged 85. He had served as Chancellor of the Diocese of Melbourne since 1909. A prominent figure in legal, church and sporting circles. #anglican #84years Biography: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mi...
It’s been 84 years 🥺 #gta #gta6 #grandtheftauto #84years #titanic
Remembering today Mr John Alfred Ironside Perry, who died on 22 April 1941, aged 77. From 1928 (chosen by Bishop John Ashton) he had served as Chancellor of the Diocese of Grafton. #anglican #84years The Sydney legal firm he founded still exists, as Bartier Perry.
7 March 1941: a what-if moment for St Andrew's Cathedral Sydney, as the Rt Revd John Charles Mann (1880-1967), CMS missionary and Bishop in Kyushu, Japan (1935-1940) declines Howard Mowll's offer to serve as Dean of Sydney. #anglican #84years His English appointment was Asst. Bishop in Rochester.
