Alison Flood reports for The Guardian: Westminster Abbey’s plans to dedicate a memorial to PG Wodehouse 43 years after his death have been welcomed by the Wodehouse Society and by Ben Schott, who described the Jeeves and Wooster creator as the “personification of a very specific breed of English writing”. Schott is author of the bestselling trivia collection Schott’s Original … [Read more...] about Westminster Abbey to Honor Wodehouse, Sir
Archives for October 18, 2018
Order Welcomes Vermont Couple
The Rev. John Mitchell, rector of Zion Church in Manchester, Vermont, and his wife, Jane Uva — a pediatric emergency medicine physician — were invested on Oct. 14 in the Most Venerable Order of St. John, an international order of chivalry led by Queen Elizabeth II. The Order of St. John traces its roots to a hospice in Jerusalem in the year 1070, eventually becoming a … [Read more...] about Order Welcomes Vermont Couple
Sewanee’s 25th Chancellor
Sewanee Today reports that the Rt. Rev. Robert Skirving, Bishop of East Carolina, was elected the 25th chancellor of the University of the South on Oct. 12: Skirving succeeds the Rt. Rev. Samuel Johnson Howard, Bishop of Florida, who served as chancellor from October 2012 through October 2018. Skirving, a native of Ontario, Canada, was ordained and consecrated as the eighth … [Read more...] about Sewanee’s 25th Chancellor