PONSONBY (Arthur A.W.H., 1871-1946, M.P., Liberal and Labour Politician and Peace Campaigner, from 1930 1st Lord Ponsonby of Shulbrede)

Autograph Letter Signed to Sydney A. Gimson (1860-1938, from 1888 President of the Leicester Secular Society), thanking him "for your kind invitation" but regretting he "cannot fit in a Sunday at Leicester in the coming months", Shulbrede Priory, Lynchmere, Haslemere, 1 side 8vo, 7th November

The Leicester Secular Society's well-known Rationalist and undogmatic stance, combined with a respect for other traditions, attracted lecturers on Sunday evening from an immense variety of schools of thought, and in turn gave its members a view on all the major topics of the day.
Arthur Ponsonby was born at Windsor Castle, the son of Queen Victoria's private secretary Sir Henry. In 1898 he married Sir Hubert Parry's daughter Dorothea, and they settled down in the medieval Shulbrede Priory in West Sussex, for which Parry composed the charming piano pieces Shulbrede Tunes.

Item Date:  1917

Stock No:  56710      £75

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