OWEN OF UPPINGHAM Primate of New Zealand
by Jessel, Penelope
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: A.R. Mowbray and Co.. Good/Very Good. 1965. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Name on ffep. small amount annotation . Light foxing to page tips. Plates. 105 pages clean and tight. OWEN OF UPPINGHAM. Headmaster and Archbishop-these were the twin peaks at the beginning and end of R. H. Owen's career. He was only twenty-eight when in 1915 he became Headmaster of Upping-ham School, a remarkably early age at that period for such an appointment. He stayed at Uppingham for eighteen years during which time he carried out radical reorganizations and set his seal upon the school. In 1946, at the age of nearly sixty, he undertook fresh responsibilities in a new country by accepting the bishopric of Wellington, New Zealand. Six years later he was elected Archbishop and served as untiringly in that high office until ill health forced retirement. The years between brought a variety of experience. He was, among other things, chaplain of Brasenose College, Oxford, and a junior naval chaplain in the Second World War. But wherever he found himself, his life provides a record of duty calmly assumed and steadfastly performed. Whatever authority he held, he himself was always `a man under authority.' The firmness of his faith was the thread that ran through his whole life. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 139072
- Title
- OWEN OF UPPINGHAM Primate of New Zealand
- Author
- Jessel, Penelope
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A.R. Mowbray and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tight
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- New
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...