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This is a beautifully produced manuscript book presented to The Bishop of London, Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram on his retirement, given by The Central Council of the Church of England Temperance Society. The book is bound in a full leather binding with inner gilt dentelles and fitted with silk endpapers, the opening two pages are beautifully illuminated on vellum illustrated with two finely done small paintings, exquisite floral border decoration in many colours, highlighted in silver and gold, coats of arms and bishops mitres, within the decoration, this is then followed with thirty three pages of names of the council of the temperance society, and then names of members of different regional dioceses. These include Canterbury, London, Bath & Wells, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Chelmsford, Chichester, Coventry, Exeter, Hereford, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Liverpool, Manchester & Blackburn, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Ripon, Rochester, St. Albans, St. Edmundsbury & Ipswich, Salisbury, Sheffield, Sodor & Man, Southwark, Worcester, All these pages are beautifully handwritten in flawless calligraphy, The book measures 12 inches by 9.5 inches approx. Loosely inserted are some newspaper and magazine clippings and a letter from The Very Rev. J. A. H. Waddington, from the provost?s House at Bury St. Edmunds, Apart from some rubbing to spine ends and corners, some mild discolouration to spine, the book is in excellent condition. A BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED BOOK WITH TWO FINELY ILLUMINATED PAGES OF CONSIDERABLE SKILL Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram KCVO PC (26 January 1858 ? 26 May 1946) was Bishop of London from 1901 to 1939. He was born in the rectory at Stanford-on-Teme, Worcestershire, the fourth son of Edward Winnington-Ingram (a Church of England priest and Rector of Stanford) and of Louisa (daughter of Henry Pepys, Bishop of Worcester). Winnington-Ingram was educated at Marlborough College and Keble College, Oxford; he graduated with second-class honours in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') in 1881. He was a private tutor in Europe, 1881?84; curate at St Mary's, Shrewsbury, 1884?85; private chaplain to the Bishop of Lichfield, 1885?89; head of Oxford House Settlement, Bethnal Green 1889?97, chaplain to the Archbishop of York, 1889; rector of St Matthew's, Bethnal Green, 1895; rural dean of Spitalfields, 1896; and canon of St Paul's Cathedral, 1897. Episcopal career In 1897, Winnington-Ingram was raised to the episcopate as the second suffragan Bishop of Stepney. In 1901, he was nominated to the See of London, and he was in the same year appointed as a Privy Counsellor. During the First World War Winnington-Ingram threw himself into supporting the war effort. Chaplain from 1901 to the London Rifle Brigade and London Royal Naval Volunteers, he visited the troops on both the Western Front and at Salonika, and the Grand Fleet at Rosyth and Scapa Flow. A despatch from Field Marshal French portrayed Winnington-Ingram's visit to the Western Front; "The Bishop held several services virtually under shell fire, and it was with difficulty that he could be prevented from carrying on his ministrations under rifle fire in the trenches." Such apparent derring-do and appeals to patriotism strengthened his reputation as a 'people's bishop'.
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