Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh was an English writer of novels,biographies,and travel books;he was also a prolific journalist and book reviewer. His most famous works include the early satires Decline and Fall (1928) and A Handful of Dust (1934),the novel Brideshead Revisited (1945),and the Second World War trilogy Sword of Honour (1952–1961). He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century.
Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice,in particular Christian mysticism. Her best-known work is Mysticism,published in 1911.
Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for,the consciousness of,and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God" or Divine love. Until the sixth century the practice of what is now called mysticism was referred to by the term contemplatio,c.q. theoria,from contemplatio,"looking at","gazing at","being aware of" God or the Divine. Christianity took up the use of both the Greek (theoria) and Latin terminology to describe various forms of prayer and the process of coming to know God.
John van Ruysbroeck,original Middle Dutch name Jan van Ruusbroec,was an Augustinian canon and one of the most important of the medieval mystics of the Low Countries. Some of his main literary works include The Kingdom of the Divine Lovers,The Twelve Beguines,The Spiritual Espousals,A Mirror of Eternal Blessedness,The Little Book of Enlightenment,and The Sparkling Stone. Some of his letters also survive,as well as several short sayings. He wrote in the Dutch vernacular,the language of the common people of the Low Countries,rather than in Latin,the language of the Catholic Church liturgy and official texts,in order to reach a wider audience.
George John Scipio Africanus was a West African former slave who became a successful entrepreneur in Nottingham,England.
James Richard Atkin,Baron Atkin,,commonly known as Dick Atkin,was an Australian-born British judge,who served as a lord of appeal in ordinary from 1928 until his death in 1944. He is especially remembered as the judge giving the leading judgement in the case of Donoghue v Stevenson in 1932,in which he established the modern law of negligence in the UK,and indirectly in most of the common law world.
The Dark Night of the Soul is a phase of passive purification of the spirit in the mystical development,as described by the 16th-century Spanish mystic and poet St. John of the Cross in his treatise Dark Night,a commentary on his poem with the same name. It follows after the second phase,the illumination in which God's presence is felt,but this presence is not yet stable. The author himself did not give any title to his poem,which together with this commentary and the Ascent of Mount Carmel forms a treatise on the active and passive purification of the senses and the spirit,leading to mystical union.
Walter Hilton,Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic,whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales. He is commemorated by the Church of England and by the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Carry On Matron is a 1972 British comedy film,the 23rd release in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). It was released in May 1972. It features series regulars Sid James,Kenneth Williams,Charles Hawtrey,Joan Sims,Hattie Jacques,Bernard Bresslaw,Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Connor. This was the last Carry on... film for Terry Scott after appearing in seven films. Carry On Matron was the second and last Carry On... for Kenneth Cope.
Hubert John Duggan was an Argentine-born British Army officer and politician,who was Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Acton from 1931 until his death. He was an opponent of appeasement and broke the whip on several important occasions,voting to bring down Neville Chamberlain in 1940.
Anna Cropper was an English stage and television actress.
Practical Mysticism is a book written by Evelyn Underhill and first published in 1915. In this book Underhill sets out her belief that spiritual life is part of human nature and as such is available to every human being. Underhill's practical mysticism is secular rather than religious,since "it is a natural human activity."
Margaret Kirkby,was an anchorite of Ravensworth in North Yorkshire,England. She was the principal disciple of the hermit Richard Rolle,and the recipient of much of his writings.
Arthur James Mason was an English clergyman,theologian and classical scholar. He was Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity,Master of Pembroke College,Cambridge,and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
Professor Nicola Margaret Padfield KC (hon) is a British barrister and academic. She is a former Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge. and was succeeded to the position in October 2019 by Sally Morgan,Baroness Morgan of Huyton. She is Professor of Criminal and Penal Justice in the Faculty of Law,University of Cambridge. In addition to her academic work,she was a Recorder of the Crown Court from 2002 to 2014,and is a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
Margaret Cropper (1886–1980) was a Westmorland poet,author and hymnist,who rivalled Norman Nicholson as the leading 20th-century Lake Poet.
James Cropper (1773–1840) was an English businessman and philanthropist,known as an abolitionist who made a major contribution to the abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire in 1833.
Evelyn Florence Margaret Winifred Gardner was the youngest child of Herbert Gardner,1st Baron Burghclere,and the first wife of Evelyn Waugh. She was one of the Bright Young Things.
Mary Paton Ramsay was a Scottish academic. In 1919,she was the winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for her book Les Doctrines Medievales Chez Donne,which argued for the influence of medieval mysticism on the poetry of John Donne.
The Reverend Joseph Butterworth Owen was an English clergyman,social reformer and author of the nineteenth century. Known primarily for his published work,he is also notable for being the last minister of the famed Evangelical Chapel St John's Chapel,Bedford Row as well as chancellor of The Royal Polytechnic Institution. Owen's published sermons and biography provided the target for Samuel Butler's satirical novel The Fair Haven.
