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Author: Piers Dudgeon
and very interestingâ¦
Besides the intellectual prowess and unsympathetic manner, the Reverend John Llewelyn Davies was an original member of the famous Alpine Club, and was the first to climb the highest peak within the Swiss frontier (the Dom, 14,911 feet). He was also a supporter of womenâs rights and workersâ rights, a champion of trade unionism and had nerve enough to lambast imperialism from the pulpit while the Queen herself was in the congregation â the reason he found himself living hundreds of miles to the north in 1889 as Rector of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Dolly Parry, one of Sir Hubertâs daughters, wrote of the appointment:
It was regarded as a sort of banishment. He was a Broad Churchman, and on a very high moral and intellectual plane. Mr Gladstone [who was on his fourth stint as Prime Minister] was criticised for this appointment. I heard so much of it from my father and mother, though only thirteen â that I had my own reasons for disliking Mr Gladstone in my youth. He didnât approve of Mr Llewelyn Davies and he cut down trees.
For his part, John Llewelyn Davies was never in the least bitter and grew to love Kirkby and his walks over the Fells, where he turned the vicarage into a hive of reformatory endeavour.
Dollyâs close association with the family had begun with her motherâs great liking and admiration for Arthurâs sister, Margaret, who was General Secretary of the Womenâs Co-operative Guild from 1889 to 1922. The intellectual and social achievements of the Llewelyn Davieses knew no bounds. Arthurâs Aunt Emily founded Girton College, Cambridge, and his own list of accomplishments, before being called to the Bar, included Junior and Senior Scholarships at Marlborough School (a major English public school), Minor and Foundation Trinity Scholarships at Cambridge University, where he took a First Class Degree in the Classical Tripos and won the Lebas Essay Prize in 1884, the First Whewell International Law Scholarship in 1887 Law, and the Inner Temple Pupil Scholarship in Common Law in 1889.
His brothers Crompton and Theodore had both been Apostles at Cambridge â members of a secret society to which only select undergraduates were elected and which would shortly include the philosopher G. E. Moore ( Principia Ethica ), the poet Rupert Brooke, and many members of the Bloomsbury set, such as John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and his brother James.
Cromptonâs story is an especially adventurous one. He became a successful lawyer, friend of Lloyd George and supporter of Sinn Féin and married Moya OâConnor, an attractive, dynamic woman who smuggled guns during the War of Independence and was reputed to have been one of Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collinsâ many lovers. Crompton actually helped Collins draft the Free State constitution and knew him well. After he was ambushed and shot through the head in August 1922, Crompton wasappointed Arbitrator and Inspector General in Land Matters for the Free State.
Arthur and Sylvia were a handsome couple with diverse and attractive strains in their character and background, which seemed to predict a lasting, dovetail attraction between them, rather than any serious kind of conflict, and a rich harvest of possibility for the generations to follow.
Fate, in the shape of Mr Barrie, was to determine otherwise.
7 Diana Farr, Gilbert Cannan: A Georgian Prodigy (1978).
Chapter Three
1895: A Key to Kensington Gardens
M OST AFTERNOONS FROM his house at 133 Gloucester Road, James Matthew Barrie, a boyish figure with a round, full, sensitive-looking head and a faraway look in his eyes, would make his way by means of Palace Gate on the south side of the Kensington Gardens on to the Broad Walk, dressed in overcoat and scarf to protect his chest. His constant pipe-smoking had produced a ticklish cough, which friends associated with him as surely as his thick, high-pitched Scottish
Besides the intellectual prowess and unsympathetic manner, the Reverend John Llewelyn Davies was an original member of the famous Alpine Club, and was the first to climb the highest peak within the Swiss frontier (the Dom, 14,911 feet). He was also a supporter of womenâs rights and workersâ rights, a champion of trade unionism and had nerve enough to lambast imperialism from the pulpit while the Queen herself was in the congregation â the reason he found himself living hundreds of miles to the north in 1889 as Rector of Kirkby Lonsdale.
Dolly Parry, one of Sir Hubertâs daughters, wrote of the appointment:
It was regarded as a sort of banishment. He was a Broad Churchman, and on a very high moral and intellectual plane. Mr Gladstone [who was on his fourth stint as Prime Minister] was criticised for this appointment. I heard so much of it from my father and mother, though only thirteen â that I had my own reasons for disliking Mr Gladstone in my youth. He didnât approve of Mr Llewelyn Davies and he cut down trees.
For his part, John Llewelyn Davies was never in the least bitter and grew to love Kirkby and his walks over the Fells, where he turned the vicarage into a hive of reformatory endeavour.
Dollyâs close association with the family had begun with her motherâs great liking and admiration for Arthurâs sister, Margaret, who was General Secretary of the Womenâs Co-operative Guild from 1889 to 1922. The intellectual and social achievements of the Llewelyn Davieses knew no bounds. Arthurâs Aunt Emily founded Girton College, Cambridge, and his own list of accomplishments, before being called to the Bar, included Junior and Senior Scholarships at Marlborough School (a major English public school), Minor and Foundation Trinity Scholarships at Cambridge University, where he took a First Class Degree in the Classical Tripos and won the Lebas Essay Prize in 1884, the First Whewell International Law Scholarship in 1887 Law, and the Inner Temple Pupil Scholarship in Common Law in 1889.
His brothers Crompton and Theodore had both been Apostles at Cambridge â members of a secret society to which only select undergraduates were elected and which would shortly include the philosopher G. E. Moore ( Principia Ethica ), the poet Rupert Brooke, and many members of the Bloomsbury set, such as John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and his brother James.
Cromptonâs story is an especially adventurous one. He became a successful lawyer, friend of Lloyd George and supporter of Sinn Féin and married Moya OâConnor, an attractive, dynamic woman who smuggled guns during the War of Independence and was reputed to have been one of Irish revolutionary leader Michael Collinsâ many lovers. Crompton actually helped Collins draft the Free State constitution and knew him well. After he was ambushed and shot through the head in August 1922, Crompton wasappointed Arbitrator and Inspector General in Land Matters for the Free State.
Arthur and Sylvia were a handsome couple with diverse and attractive strains in their character and background, which seemed to predict a lasting, dovetail attraction between them, rather than any serious kind of conflict, and a rich harvest of possibility for the generations to follow.
Fate, in the shape of Mr Barrie, was to determine otherwise.
7 Diana Farr, Gilbert Cannan: A Georgian Prodigy (1978).
Chapter Three
1895: A Key to Kensington Gardens
M OST AFTERNOONS FROM his house at 133 Gloucester Road, James Matthew Barrie, a boyish figure with a round, full, sensitive-looking head and a faraway look in his eyes, would make his way by means of Palace Gate on the south side of the Kensington Gardens on to the Broad Walk, dressed in overcoat and scarf to protect his chest. His constant pipe-smoking had produced a ticklish cough, which friends associated with him as surely as his thick, high-pitched Scottish
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