Magdalene College

His brother, however, Prince Frederick Victor Duleep Singh, followed a quieter yet more enduring path.

Educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Cambridge, Frederick trained as a historian and became a soldier, antiquarian and expert on the old buildings and portraits of Norfolk and Suffolk.

He served in the Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry, including during the First World War, and made his home at Blow Norton Hall, also near Thetford.

Frederick's fascination with local history was practical as well as scholarly.

He was a British author, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian.

He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalene College, Oxford, and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

He's best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia.

But he's also noted for his other works of fiction, such as The Screwtape Letters, The Space Trilogy, and his nonfiction Christian Apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and The Problem of Pain.

A.C.B.

The Old Lodge, Maudlin College, Cambridge, January 1912 End of Introduction Chapter 1 of The Child of Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Certainly the last few moments of my former material, worn-out life, as I must still call it, were made horrible enough for me.

I came to, after the operation, in a deadly sickness and ghastly confusion of thought.

A.C.B.

The Old Lodge, Maudlin College, Cambridge, January 1912 End of Introduction Chapter 1 of The Child of Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Certainly the last few moments of my former material, worn-out life, as I must still call it, were made horrible enough for me.

I came to after the operation in a deadly sickness and ghastly confusion of thought.

With me, I have Guy Rowston, very much part of our cathedral family as archivist, server, and a former cathedral warden, who also moonlights as a bit of an Andrews scholar, having written on him for his MA in 2019.

Beside him is Anika Goddard, a new friend who is a PhD student at Magdalen College, Cambridge, where she's looking at seasonal time and the now in 17th century sermons through the English faculty.

So two Andrews scholars to help us share the joy.

Before they start, though, I do need to declare an interest.

they were a very singular trio each was known to him by sight but what on earth the three could be doing together and above all what they could expect from him was a most inexplicable problem The first was Sorley Wilson, the son of the owner of the nonpareil coal pit.

He was a young blood of twenty, heir to a fortune, a keen sportsman, endowed for the Easter vacation from Magdalene College.

He sat now upon the edge of the surgery table, looking in thoughtful silence at Montgomery and twisting the ends of his small black waxed moustache.

The second was Purvis, the publican, owner of the chief beer-shop, and well known as the local bookmaker.