1
Harris, Jose, Private Lives, Public Spirit. A Social History of Britain 1870–1914 (Oxford, 1993), p. 125.
2
Bell, G. K. A., Randall Davidson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1935);
Mews, Stuart, ‘Randall Davidson’, New DNB (Oxford, forthcoming).
3
Queen Victoria to Sir Henry Ponsonby, 24 Dec. 1889: Bell, Davidson, 1, p. 185.
4
Russell, George W. E., Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography (London, 1915), p. 339
. H. M. Butler became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; B. F. Westcott became Bishop of Durham; F. W. Farrer became Dean of Canterbury.
5
Perkin, Harold, The Rise of Professional Society (London, 1990), p. 2
.
6
Edwards, David L., Leaders of the Church of England 1928–44 (Oxford, 1971), p. 237.
7
Bell, P. M. H., Disestablishment in Ireland and Wales (London, 1969), p. 298
.
8
Chadwick, Owen, Hensley Henson. A Study in the Friction of Church and State (Oxford, 1983), p. 139.
9
Newsome, David, On the Edge of Paradise. A.C. Benson: the Diarist (London, 1980), p. 123.
10
Lloyd George: Diary by Frances Stevenson, ed. A. J. P. Taylor (London, 1971), p. 40.
11
London, Lambeth Palace Library [hereafter LPL], Bell Papers, vol. 222, fol. 17: Mary Mills Memorandum, 1932.
13
Bell, Davidson, 1: 10.
15
I owe this information, as well as invaluable help with the Davidson Papers, to
Barber, Melanie, whose own ‘Randall Davidson: a partial retrospective’, is in Taylor, Steven, ed., From Cranmer to Davidson. A Church of England Miscellany, Church of England Record Society, 7 (Woodbridge, 1999), pp. 387–438.
16
London, Wellcome Library, 108/82: ‘Memorandum on Archbishop Davidson’s Illnesses’, Typescript by Sir Thomas Barlow.
17
Bell, Davidson, 1: 18–25.
18
Obelkevich, James, Religion and Rural Society. South Lindsey 1825–1875 (Oxford, 1976), p. 40.
19
LPL, Davidson Papers, vol. 734: Sportsman’s note-books 1868–73.
20
The Reminiscences of Albert Pell, ed. Thomas Mackay (London, 1908), p. 100.
21
LPL, Davidson Papers, vol. 734.
22
Blomfield, C.J., Primary Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester (London, 1825), pp. 29–30
. On the clergy and hunting see
Williams, J. T., ‘Bearers of moral and spiritual values: the social roles of clergymen and women in British society, C.1790-C.1880, as mirrored in attitudes to them as foxhunters’ (Oxford University, D.Phil. thesis, 1987).
23
Russell, G. W. E., The Household of Faith (London, 1906), p. 234.
24
Holt, Richard, Sport and the British: a modern History (Oxford, 1994), p. 54.
25
Benham, William, Catherine and Crauford Tait. A Memoir (London, 1881), p. 308.
26
Bell, Davidson, 1: 34.
32
M[ills], M. C. S., Edith Davidson of Lambeth (London, 1938), p. 209.
34
LPL, Claude Jenkins Papers, 562: MS Journal of R. T. Davidson, 1877–8.
35
For a detailed discussion of Davidson’s role see
Mews, Stuart, ‘The General and the Bishops. Alternative responses to de-Christianization’, in Gourvish, T. R. and O’Day, Alan, eds, Later Victorian Britain (Houndmills, 1988), pp. 221–4.
36
Bell, Davidson, 1: 63.
39
Ibid., 1: 111. For the significance of Davidson for the Sunday question see
Wigley, John, The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Sunday (Manchester, 1980), pp. 113, 145–6, 160–1, 191.
40
Bell, Davidson, 1: no.
41
LPL, Davidson Papers, 84, fol. 36: R. T. Davidson to Henry Davidson, 19 Jan. 1885.
42
Hutchinson, Horace G., Life of Sir John Lubbock, 2 vols (London, 1914).
43
LPL, Davidson Papers, 577: Journal, 4 May 1891, fols 33–4.
44
Bell, Davidson, 1: 205; LPL, Davidson Papers, 577, fol. 65.
45
LPL, Davidson Papers, 577, fols 49–50.
46
LPL, Bell Papers, vol. 222, fol. 14.
48
Lidgett, J. Scott, My Guided Life (London, 1936), p. 253.
49
LPL, Davidson Papers, 492.
50
Bell, Davidson, 1: 221.
52
Hammond, P. C., The Parson in the Victorian Parish (London, 1977), p. 104
;
Russell, Anthony, The Clerical Profession (London, 1985), p. 250.
53
Whitacker, W. B., Victorian and Edwardian Shopworkers (Newton Abbot, 1973), p. 122.
57
Fullerton, W. Y., F. B. Meyer: a Biography (London, n.d.), p. 111.
58
Special Sermon on ‘Early Closing’ by Rev. J. Monroe Gibson, Preached by desire of the Voluntary Early Closing Association (London, 1899).
59
Rev. Wilson Carlile on Early Shopping, Issued by the Voluntary Early Closing Association (London, 1899).
60
LPL, Davidson Papers, 64, fols 306–37: Shop Early Closing Bill 1896–1900.
61
Irwin, M., ‘The Shop Seats Bill movement’, Fortnightly Review, 66 (1899), pp. 123–31.
62
The cartoon is reproduced in
Holcombe, Lee, Victorian Ladies and Work Middle Class Working Women in England and Wales 1850–1914 (Newton Abbot, 1973), p. 128.
64
LPL, Davidson Papers, 517, fol. 121.
66
Pall Mall Gazette, 12 July 1899.
67
Bell, Davidson, 1: 322; The Drapers’ Record, 15, 22 July 1899. The official record of the speech, in Parliamentary Debates (authorised edition), 4th ser., 74 (6-21 July 1899), col. 445, has a different form of words: ‘I have gone behind counters and held investigations while sales were going on.’
68
Ibid., col. 450. Pollock was ‘not quite clear that it would be practicable to insist on seats being provided’, and had fears about the knock-on effects of their introduction.
69
LPL, Davidson Papers, vol. 517, fols 196–7: F. Debenham to R. T. Davidson, 14 July 1899.
70
Bell, Davidson, 1, p. 322.
72
Hatfield House, Salisbury MS: Wemyss to Salisbury, 5 May 1899.
