| Description | Papers relating to the reorganisation of the Council and the appointment of Leslie Owen, Suffragan Bishop of Jarrow, as chairman and Suffragan Bishop of Maidstone with special responsibility for the spiritual work of Service chaplains. Includes papers on the financing of Owen's stipend, newspaper cuttings regarding his appointment from The Evening Standard, 15 December 1943 (f. 134), and The Evening News, 17 December 1943 (f. 142), correspondence on government grants for Service candidates, and the report of the Council conference held 11-15 September 1944 (ff. 192-3). Correspondents include: Owen (passim); Frederic Sumpter Guy Warman, Bishop of Manchester (ff. 1, 52, 73); Alwyn Terrell Petre Williams, Bishop of Durham (ff. 2, 15); Sir Percy James Grigg, Secretary of State for War (f. 3); Archbishop Temple (passim); Anthony Bevir, private secretary to Prime Minister Winston Churchill (ff. 11, 87-9, 119); Sir Henry Vaughan Markham, Permanent Secretary of the Admiralty (f. 14); Maurice Henry Edwards, Chaplain-in-Chief to the Royal Air Force (ff. 22, 116); Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York (f. 23); Sir Edward Robert Peacock (ff. 26, 30); Sir Thomas Roydon (f. 29); Charles Robert Grey, 5th Earl Grey (ff. 31-2, 40); Guy Harden Guillum Scott, Joint-Secretary of the Church Assembly (f. 49); Edward Mauger Iliffe, 1st Baron Iliffe (f. 50); Sir Alan Frederick Lascelles, Private Secretary to King George VI (f. 51); Sir Frederick Joseph West (f. 55); Sir William Macnamara Goodenough (ff. 58, 91); James Gomer Berry, 1st Baron Kemsley (f. 59); William Richard Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield (ff. 66, 83); Henry Thomas Alexander Dashwood, Principal Registrar of the Province of Canterbury (f. 82); John Kenneth Wilson, Chaplain of the Fleet (f. 85); Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor (f. 86); Harry Duncan McGowan, 1st Baron McGowan (f. 92); Joseph Arthur Rank (f. 95); Ian St. John Lawson Johnston, 2nd Baron Luke (f. 103); Sir Frederick Carl Bovenschen, Joint Permanent Under-Secretary of State for War (ff. 107, 129); Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, Editor of The Times (f. 123); Alfred Charles Bossom, M.P. for Maidstone (f. 165); and David Herbert Somerset Cranage, Dean of Norwich (f. 175). |