Registered Charity No 1137522 BURGON NOTES - ISSUE No. 14 - AUTUMN 2010

FROM THE CHAIRMAN - A GRAND DAY AT CHARTERHOUSE I must first reiterate what I said in person to There was a buzz in the air on Saturday, 9th those who attended the Congregation in October: that I October, as a large number of Society members and thank the Fellows of the Society for their confidence in their guests descended on The Charterhouse in London electing me as Chairman of the Burgon Society; and to for our Tenth Anniversary celebrations. say to all members that I will always seek to act in the I arrived early and found Colin Fleming, our best interests of our Society. new Chairman, whizzing around like a wasp in a bottle, The Tenth Anniversary party, combining trying valiantly to complete the “petting enclosure” and AGM, garden party, exhibition and Congregation, held set up robes on the mannequins in the ante-chapel at the Charterhouse on 9th October 2010, was a before 1130. Together we navigated Charterhouse’s resounding success. Over 150 people attended all or rabbit warren of corridors and staircases, collecting some of the event; the Society’s Collection was on boxes of hoods, more robes, and hauling them show, and some items were even being worn by downstairs. I set up the hood tables whilst Colin kept members and guests. running ... The highpoints were the admission of four One of the best aspects of the arrival was the Fellows by submission, one honoris causa, and one de chance Council members had to meet the many juri dignitatis; and the induction of two Patrons. The members and guests. In past years, the Council have presentations by Jerónimo Hernández de Castro and held a meeting prior to members’ arrival and that has Jonathan Cooper highlighted the importance meant some degree of of scholarship for the Society. The day was mental tiredness before a colourful event and I thank all members the day even began. The of the Society, and especially my fellow atmosphere was warm Trustees, for their hard work in making it and friendly, with many a success. members and their We look forward to two new guests greeting each publications that should be available before other as if it hadn’t been Stephen Wolgast the end of the year and which will make a year since they last met. suitable presents for Hanukkah, Christmas or People robed, looked at the displays the Winter Solstice: a new edition of Nicholas Groves’ together, then took their seats in the Key to the Identification of Academic Hoods of the great hall for the Annual General British Isles and a major work (also edited by Nick), Meeting. Shaw’s Academical Dress of Great Britain and Ireland We were delighted to have (Third Edition). people from abroad! Stephen The grant of Charity Status to the Society in Wolgast (above), Council member August 2010 was mentioned frequently in from the USA, was present with his presentations during the AGM and the Congregation. wife, Robin; Professeur Yves Mausen (left) came from the A priority for the Trustees when the newly-constituted Prof Yves Mausen Council meets for the first time will be to examine the University of opportunities that being a Charity offers and what we Montpellier, France; Sgr Jerónimo must do to take full advantage of Hernández de Castro (right), Head of those opportunities as well as Protocol at the University of complying with the legal obligations Salamanca, came from Spain. as efficiently as possible. We were very pleased to I look forward to serving the hear at the AGM a report on the Society as Chairman and hope to see distribution of the various Sgr de Castro as many of you as possible at events publications, a highlight of which in the future. was the news that the Society of Antiquaries “required” a copy of each of the Transactions in their library. This Colin Fleming confirms the standard at which the Society is

To buy Ede & Ravenscroft’s photos of 9.10.10, go to: http://www.everybodysmile.biz/edeandravenscroft/socev/index.html functioning, the quality of our presentation and the esteem history throughout Scotland. His able and very attractive in which we are held. assistant, Regan Leahy, modelled the scarlet gown and Following the AGM, members dressed in their showed, as Jonathan spoke, the various best and enjoyed time simply admiring each other’s dress, ways students wore the gown to show which year they were in: completely off the shoulders indicated final-year status. After the Congregation, Dr James Thompson, Patron of the Society and Master of Charterhouse, offered his usual, highly informative tour of the Regan Leahy, in House and many members listened scarlet gown intently. The day concluded at 1630 - but had the usual attendees frequenting the Fox & Anchor until well after 1800 (I know, I was there!). This Tenth Anniversary celebration raised new enthusiasm for the Society, renewed interest amongst Council for what they might offer for members in 2011, and anticipation of the release of “Shaw III”, the 4th Edition of Nicholas Groves’ Hood Key and the release of L-R: The Revd Philip Goff, retiring member of the Council, Professeur Yves Transactions Volume 9. Mausen of the University of Montpellier, France, and The Rt Revd Graeme Many thanks to everyone who worked so hard to Knowles, Dean of St Paul’s, London. Adjusting his camera is Nicholas ensure such a wonderful day, and to everyone who came Gledhill, FBS. to make it such a happy celebration. drinking their glasses of bubbly, walking outside, Finally, sincere and heartfelt thanks to Dr William conversing about anything and everything - and smiling Gibson, retiring Chairman, for the years of excellent constantly throughout the morning. Perhaps the most service he has given to the Society in this capacity. telling revelation of the day was the general good spirit Kenneth Crawford, Ed. and laughter from everyone. Members were enjoying themselves in a way that hasn’t always been evident; it showed a Society integrated and happy, with members delighted that we’d achieved ten years with such success. The Congregation at 1400 saw the largest attendance for some years. We installed and welcomed our two new patrons: The Rt Revd Graeme Knowles, Dean of St Paul’s, London, and Professor Graham Zelleck. The Dean was conferred with the Felowship (de Jure Dignitatis), Professor Zelleck having been conferred with the Fellowship some years before. The Revd Philip Goff made delightful presentations of both new patrons, offering warm anecdotes in both cases. Other recipients of the Fellowship were Jonathan The new Patrons leaving the Great Hall following Cooper, Dr Les Robarts and Professeur Yves Mausen. Congregation. L-R: The President, Dr John Birch; The Professeur Mausen was conferred Honoris Causa. Two Rt Revd Graeme Knowles; Professor Graham Zelleck. Fellows were conferred in absentia: Robert Armagost and David Boven, both of the USA. The addresses for the day were two-fold: Jerónimo Hernández de Castro presented a very fine paper on the development of academical dress in Spanish universities (the full text is printed later in this edition). In spite of his apology for his broken English, he came across extremely well. The second address was from Jonathan Cooper, FBS, who read in his submission for the Fellowship on the Scarlet Gown and its History in Scottish Universities, with particular reference to St Andrews, including a Founding Members: L-R (Back): Giles Brightwell; Bruce Jonathan Cooper Christianson; John Horton; Peter Durant. L-R (Front): most interesting hand-out on the gown’s Stephen James; Philip Goff; Nicholas Groves.

2 The following article appeared in the New York Times, mater. The individual approaches to academic dress were which holds the copyright: seen in America as a weakness: without knowing each university's rules, no one could tell who studied what where. In the 1890s a Princeton trustee, John McCook, Sunday, October 17, 2010 began a push for reform, which resulted in a meeting of university leaders at Columbia University in 1894. They ACADEMICAL DRESS set national standards that largely remain in effect today. By Stephen Wolgast Their plan, the Inter-Collegiate Code of Academic Caps and gowns, the fancy dress of graduation Costume, is based on Columbia's academic dress statute of day, had their start in medieval Europe. When the 1887. Americas were colonized by Great Britain, old world The code borrowed the University of Oxford's fashion migrated to the new, where black gowns were shapes for bachelors' and masters' gowns and hoods. The worn first by students at Princeton. Students at Columbia doctoral gown, which today resembles the bachelor's and Yale followed suit, wearing gowns before the gown but with broader sleeves, has the same velvet American Revolution. decorations as the Columbia doctor and master of 1887. The European tradition of academic dress began The velvet can be black or one of 26 colours to denote the when the everyday style was long, closed gowns. field of study. Scholars, who were clergy in minor orders, wore the same In the U.S. system, hoods are meant to show the thing. Their gowns were typically black or brown. graduate's degree, specialty and alma mater. A detailed By the time the University of was explanation is available from the founded in the early thirteenth century, graduates who American Council on Education. held doctorates in law and music were permitted to wear The code was approved to less sombre shades. While colourful, these gowns in regulate the look of gowns, hoods scarlet, purple and red weren't as vivid as their modern and caps, but it had early defections. counterparts. "In the early days of academic dress they In 1902 Harvard added a pair of didn't have the dyes to make all of the bright colours we "crow's feet," a small embroidered enjoy today," according to the Rev. Philip Goff, author of embellishment, to the front of each "University of London Academic Dress." gown and uses a different shape for Just as colours came to be associated with fields its hoods. of study, gown shapes came to be associated with degrees. Colour returned to academic Academic hats trace their roots to secular clothing, but the dress in 1912 when Brown mortar board grew out of the square caps worn by British University created mortar-boards in clergy in the seventeenth century. seal brown for its administrative Another key element of the graduate's garb is the officers. In 1938, Yale University hood, which dates to around 1200 and was worn by approved gowns and caps in Yale Blue everyone as a way to keep warm and dry. By the fifteenth for its masters and doctors. After World century in England, hoods were considered a token of War II the trend toward colour was set. graduation and the idea of decorating them to refer to Today a few hundred universities have degrees began. adopted coloured gowns. Despite the centuries-old traditions of academic Doing so helps identify dress--or perhaps because of them--cap and gown are as graduates by their universities instead of popular as ever at commencement. Graduates wear the solely by their degrees. The hood lining, Stephen Wolgast, special clothes that have always marked university which was intended to distinguish one wearing the Master of Journalism hood and graduates. university from all others, could no "I think part of their importance is the chance to gown from Columbia longer serve that purpose by the 1950s. University, New York. reach out and touch the very long line of students who In the half-century since the code had stood before you in the same stream of the Western been adopted, hundreds of degree-granting institutions academic tradition," said Bruce Christianson, who helped were founded, and many adopting existing hood linings design the academic dress of the University of instead of creating their own. Hertfordshire, in England, where he is professor of informatics and a founding member of The Burgon COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT HARVARD Society, which studies the history of academic dress. "It's UNIVERSITY a way to express solidarity with them." When dozens of U.S. universities adopted the The following is an abridged account of a graduation day at scholar's style in the nineteenth century, many devised Harvard University, USA. The author is Cynthia Rossano. their own cut and colours for gown, hood and cap, details People are on the move on Commencement that can explain each graduate's specialty, degree and alma morning. Before eight o'clock the guests are streaming through the Massachusetts Avenue gates into the Yard,

3 headed for Tercentenary Theatre, the grassy area between It is the hood that has the greatest degree of colour Memorial Church and Widener Library. and symbolism. A master's hood is three and one-half feet Eventually, almost everyone ends up on rigid plastic long, the doctor's is four feet, but both have a silk lining in the or folding wooden chairs, awaiting the "joyous peal" of the colours of the university conferring the degree. All Harvard deep-toned bell of Memorial Church that signals the 10 hoods are black on the outside, and lined in crimson - the o'clock start of the morning exercises. In 1997, more than colour, officially described as that of arterial blood, formally 5,000 degrees were conferred on members of the various adopted as the official livery colour of the University in 1910. graduating classes, Commencement "parts" recall the days when assembled under the graduating students had to perform public "acts" to reds, blues, golds, demonstrate their educational attainments. Harvard's and whites of the Commencement is one of very few where students still play Harvard and so prominent a role. Three students selected in a University- Radcliffe flags that wide competition deliver the parts: first a senior declaims a have graced the Latin salutatory, or address of greeting; then a second senior festivities since the and a graduate student deliver an English address each, or, University's 350th more specifically, an "oration," "dissertation," or birthday celebration "disquisition," depending on whether the speaker's degree in 1986. The degree Showing her badges of office - a red has been granted summa, magna, or cum laude. Students candidates are tassel and a baton - is Radcliffe Chief choose their own topics. joined by three or Marshal, Miwa Powell. Radcliffe is the Now for the ceremony. At 8:55 the Commencement four times that many Harvard’s Women’s College. caller sends the academic and alumni processions off, down guests. Despite the paths flanked by applauding seniors, from the Old Yard into changes in scale and decoration, much in today's Tercentenary Theatre. Palpably if invisibly in the procession Commencement would be familiar to alumni of generations walks the endless train of ghosts that Emerson spoke of more past, especially the academic robes and student "parts." than a century ago at Harvard's bicentennial. As the Academic fashion at Harvard traditionally has been president's division nears the Theatre, the Harvard Band restrained. An entry from The Laws of Harvard College of strikes up a jubilant fanfare. President Neil L. Rudenstine 1807 prescribed that "Every Candidate for a first Degree shall takes his seat - on the triangular Jacobean chair used at every be clothed in a black gown, or in a coat of blue grey, a dark Harvard Commencement since the eighteenth century - in the blue, or a black colour; and no one shall wear any silk centre of the platform erected on the south side of Memorial nightgown on said day, nor any gold or silver lace, cord, or Church. When the rest of the procession has been seated, the edging upon his hat, waistcoat, or any other part of his University Marshal signals the Memorial Church bell to clothing, in the College, or town of Cambridge." herald the start of the morning exercises. The system is simple. Bachelors' and masters' caps - These begin when the Sheriff of Middlesex County chiefly mortarboards - have long black tassels; doctors' proclaims, "The meeting will be in order!" The chaplain of tassels may be gold. Harvard presidents may wear gold the day offers a prayer, the tassels, though no rule requires it (nor does a rule govern Commencement choir whether the tassel drapes to right or left; as an expert once sings an anthem, and the noted, "A gust of wind could change your academic standing marshal introduces the in a moment.") student speakers. Gowns are designed for bachelors, masters, and When they have doctors, respectively. The first has long pointed sleeves; the finished, the conferring of second has long sleeves ending in curved pouches well below degrees begins. With the knee; and the doctor's gown, crimson at Harvard since exuberant support from 1955, is faced with velvet, with three velvet bars on full the audience, the president round open sleeves. Every Harvard academic gown has an acknowledges the embroidered crow's foot near the yoke on each of the facings, candidates from the double for earned degrees and triple for honorary. The colour various faculties, who rise of the crow's feet designates the faculty conferring the and stand in place. They degree. Many of the colours have historic connotations: will receive their diplomas Waiting is necessary, but boredom white for Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges comes from the later, at ceremonies in the would seem to be somewhat untoward ... Oxford and Cambridge bachelors' hoods; dark blue for the houses and graduate doctor of philosophy is the colour of truth and wisdom; schools. Last, the medium grey has long represented Business; lilac, Dental graduating seniors are admitted to "the fellowship of Medicine; and yellow, the School of Design. The scarlet for educated men and women." President Rudenstine has Divinity follows the traditional colour of the church and the inaugurated a gracious custom: he next invites the new crucifixion; light blue for Education is again the colour of degree recipients to applaud all the family members, truth and wisdom, as is peacock blue for Government. Purple teachers, and friends who have supported them throughout for Law recalls bygone kings who made laws; and Medicine's their academic careers. green is the colour of medicinal herbs. The president next awards honorary degrees, a Harvard tradition since Benjamin Franklin received an

4 honorary master of arts in 1753. One of the honorands will directly to the creation of a national educational system, as address the Harvard Alumni Association's annual meeting, happened in French and Portuguese universities, leading to a held in the same space in the afternoon. The convocation then uniform set of laws prescribed by the central Government. rises for the Harvard Hymn. Sung in Latin, it makes three Later, other regulations afforded the universities autonomy in requests of the Deity: that the trustees have integrity (Integri their legislation but, in essence, the academic dress of those sint curatores), the faculty be wise (Eruditi professores), and times was the same as that used today. the benefactors be generous (Largiantur donatores). The Structure of the Academic Garb: exercises conclude following the blessing, when the In 1850, two royal decrees established the black toga president's division has left the platform and the Sheriff (a style of gown or robe always black) as the academic dress declares, "The meeting is adjourned!" to be worn throughout Spain, replacing the traditional capa As the crowd slowly makes its way out of or manteo, accompanied by a cap and a series of emblems Tercentenary Theatre, the bells of more than a dozen which display the distinctive colours of the different faculties Cambridge churches peal joyfully in a tradition begun in or schools. Legislators wished to impose distinct features that 1989. Among them, from high in the Lowell House tower, would indicate the dignity and hierarchy of officials working the great Russian zvon also peals. The tintinnabulation in a specific sector of the administration they wanted to celebrates, in the words of Fair Harvard, another successful consolidate. They prescribed meticulous regulations listing a cycle of "these Festival Rites ... from the Age that is past to huge number of details about materials, characteristics, and the Age that is waiting before." the specific dimensions of the apparel to be worn. THE TEXT OF THE PRESENTATION ON Colours: ACADEMICAL DRESS IN SPANISH UNIVERSITIES The regulation of 1859 concerning the colours to be Jerónimo Hernández de Castro, Head of Protocol, the worn to indicate the different faculties assigns the following: University of Salamanca, Spain white for Theology; red for Civil Law; golden yellow for Medicine; purple for Pharmacy; sky blue for Philosophy; navy blue for the Sciences. Traditionally, green was assigned Introduction: to Law (Canon and Civil Law were unified in one First of all, I would like to thank The Burgon Society faculty in 1842). This university regulation restated the for kindly inviting me to participate in the 2010 Garden Party previous laws and the colours are those traditionally used in and Congregation. In particular, I wish to mention Professor the past. In 1944, green was assigned to Veterinary Science William Gibson and Dr Alex Kerr, who suggested that I and orange to Political Science and Economics. should join you today. I’m sorry my English is not the best so The higher technical schools use different colours to you’ll forgive me for any pronunciation mistakes that may show their identities, sometimes incorporating academic arise. regalia. However, the prescription for their academic dress In the short time available, I would like to offer a was made in 1967, assigning the colour brown to them - panorama of academic dress in Spain, its recent history and muceta and birrete - but of course the toga is always black. the present situation seen from my perspective as Jefe de The different technical schools also were granted a Protocolo - the Head of Protocol or Ceremonial - at the range of colours, but these not used in the academic dress. University of Salamanca and as Secretary of the Association Thus, Architecture is white; Aeronautical Engineering is for the Study and Research into University Protocol, which ultramarine; Agronomy Engineering is light green; Civil bring together professionals working in the area of protocol Engineering is purple; Industrial Engineering is pale grey; and ceremonies and organising events in Spanish Mining Engineering is red; Forestry is dark green; Naval universities. Engineering is navy blue; Telecommunications Engineering Academic Dress in Spain: is orange. The University of Palencia, founded in 1212 by To conclude this summary, let me mention a rule King Alfonso VIII of Castile, but no longer active, and the assigning the light green to the academic dress of the schools University of Salamanca, founded in 1218 by King Alfonso and institutes of the Sciences of Physical Activity and Sports IX of León, around the time of the founding of Cambridge in 1995. University, were the first university foundations in Spain. Elements: However, there are no written texts describing the dress worn The toga or robe is and only graphic pictorial depictions are available. The now identical to the one used by classic work of Hargreaves-Mawdsley about the History of lawyers, with long open sleeves Academic Dress in Europe up to the Eighteenth Century folded back and attached to the mentions several examples concerning the University of arm with a button. Salamanca in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Clothing in medieval and later times clearly shows The birrete, or cap, is the relationship between the University and the Church, and also the same as that used by this aspect can be seen in many works of art, both paintings those professionals. It is black and sculptures. The traditional garb differs among the various with a coloured fringe in the An eight-sided doctor’s universities and is characterised by the presence of a cape and colour of the school and a birrete (sky blue for the an ecclesiastical bonnet. In the nineteenth century, the flattened tassel which, in the case PhD), showing the fringe Spanish universities underwent certain changes related of PhD holders, completely all round and the flattened tuft covering the top.

5 covers the top. It has six sides and six equal angles with a jurisdiction and the authority of the Chancellor or . tassel that, depending on the person’s academic status The dress of the Master of Ceremonies was introduced in (graduate or doctorate holder) varies in size, material and 1859, assigning a black baton with a silver handle as a colour. The graduates in the various schools bear their symbol of his dignity. distinctive colours on this fringe. Other recent regulations Students of the early nineteenth century - except established that the birrete of graduates has six angles - or military personnel and ecclesiastics - had to wear a clerical eight in the case of doctors. collar and long soutane down to the shoes, a three-cornered hat and decent footwear. In 1835, this soutane was limited to The muceta which is the same for graduates and students who were ordained. In 1847 the dark frock coat with doctors, is an overcape, lined with black silk and displaying trousers, a black tie and a round hat were introduced with the the colours of the school on the outside. It is buttoned at the express prohibition of departures from this apparel in order front and has a large cowl at the back. to preserve decorum in the classroom. Reference to this can The professor’s medallion, hanging by a cord round also be found in later regulations and this was the only attire the neck, has a sun on the obverse with the Latin legend required in 1859. Perfundet omnia lucet (Everthing so full of Light) and the Current Difficulties: royal arms on the reverse. In 2010, the Association for the Study and Research White lace cuffs, worn at the end of the sleeves of into University Protocol published a study prepared by a the robe, over cloth in the distinctive colour of the school. In working group involving the universities of Salamanca, the case of Rector, these under-cuffs are pink Complutense in Madrid and Córdoba, reflecting on the White gloves and tie. current situation with some suggestions for the future, with support from the Conference of Rectors of Spanish The staff, or baton, formerly used by officials who Universities. exercise authority, is used only by the Rector. For example, it is important to know that the creation In 1893, doctors were authorised to use a distinctive of new degrees sometimes needs the prescription of new medal. This medal, colours and this assignment can produce some problems other than the because the same degree title uses a different colour in each professorial venera university. (medallion), is gold This report, available on the website of the without enamel and Association, highlights the use of academic dress in most hangs from a silk cord universities, although some had opted not to use it. The in the colour of the website is school. www.protocolouniversitario.ua.es/manuales.jsp In 1914 a badge was allowed to THE SOCIETY MAKES THE PAGES OF replace academic CHURCH TIMES, THE WEEKLY CHURCH OF dress in acts in court ENGLAND NEWSPAPER or those held outside the university. A RAINBOW ROUND THEIR SHOULDERS The different Garry Humphreys had academical fun with The Burgon elements of the dress Society reflect the A TENTH ANNIVERSARY was celebrated at administrative Charterhouse, in the City of London, earlier this month. The hierarchy and Burgon Society was founded in 2000 to promote the use and academic status of the study of academical dress, and is named after John William bearer seen in Jerónimo Hernández de Castro with Burgon, the 19th-century Dean of Chichester whose name is differences in the former Society Chairman, Dr William used for a particular shape of hood, most familiarly the birrete, muceta, the Gibson. Sgr de Castro wears the toga, Oxford MA. professorial muceta (PhD sky blue) and venera. The The Society is flourishing, with more than 150 bust in the background is John Wesley. medallion and its members. Ten years of serious research and education in the cord. During official subject has been recognised by its recently awarded acts, the non-academic personnel - porters and caretakers - charitable status. Since 2001, annual transactions have been used to wear a blue dress coat with gold braid at the neck and published containing scholarly articles, many of them on the sleeves and a pointed hat. All this was changed in 1850 deriving from research undertaken by members to achieve to a black coat and black velvet cap with no brim and the Fellowship of the Burgon Society — whose hood is, of trimmed with a white or black feather. Two beadles each bear course, of the Burgon shape. a silver mace when the university or school authorities are The Society also records and documents academical assembled. dress, and will shortly be publishing the new (third) edition The presence of the maceros (the mace bearers) as of Dr George W. Shaw’s Academical Dress of British and figures of public authority is very old in the university and Irish Universities. A “hood-spotter’s guide”, in its fourth they bore such devices as a signal of their loyalty to royal

6 edition, is by Nick Groves, who is also one of the compilers This picture was printed in of several of the Society’s smaller guides relating to Church Times to illustrate the particular universities and specific areas such as the hoods of article music and theological colleges. Groves is responsible for expanding and developing the standard terminology used by Shaw to describe academic robes. The Society’s “wardrobe” has recently been relocated to Charterhouse, where it is being catalogued and photographed. This collection — of gowns, hoods, and headgear — has been built up from purchases and donations, FROM THE ARCHIVE many of which can be viewed on the Society’s website. A In my report at the AGM, I said that I rarely meet fascinating selection, including some items of great historic another member of the Society without having some item of interest, was shown at the birthday celebrations, together academical dress thrust into my hands. The AGM and with an interactive display of robes and their antecedents. Congregation were no exception and I returned home with no Members very often admit that their interest began fewer than four large bags of items for the Archive. at school — at a time when gowns were worn daily by Highlights of the new items follow. teachers — and this may suggest a peculiarly British, male Through the efforts of Fr Philip Goff, the obsession, perhaps comparable to trainspotting. But several Society now possesses the Birmingham DSc members (including Council members) originate from robes of (Sir Brian) Lord Flowers, FRS, overseas; there are a significant number of women (including Rector of Imperial College London 1973-85; three Fellows); and subjects for study and research are Vice-Chancellor of the University of international. One of the afternoon talks at Charterhouse was London 1985-1990; and Chancellor of about Spanish academical dress, by Jerónimo Hernández de Manchester University 1995-2001. The Castro, of the University of Salamanca, and a new Honorary combination of scarlet cloth and silver grey Fellow is Professor Yves Mausen, of the University of watered silk is glorious. The robes are in Montpellier, who has written about ecclesiastical influences excellent condition. Also in this group is on French academical dress. Lord Flowers’ academic cap as Vice-Chancellor of London. As for the putative trainspotters: the Dean of St Another interesting and Paul’s and Professor Graham Zellick were inducted as colourful set of robes was donated, via Fr additional patrons of the Society, to join the Bishop of Kenneth Crawford, by The Revd Juliet London and the Master of Charterhouse. The president is Dr Woollcombe: the University of the South John Birch, the former organist of Chichester Cathedral. The at Sewanee Doctor of Sacred Theology profile is high. robes worn by her late husband, Bishop Despite all this seriousness, a vein of humour runs Kenneth Woollcombe ( through many of the proceedings, as when the Revd Philip 1971-78). Woollcombe was Professor of Goff — one of the Society’s founders — in presenting the Dogmatic Theology at the Episcopal Dean of St Paul’s, recalled their student days together, when General Theological Seminary, New the Dean apparently exhibited a remarkable talent for making York, 1960-63. Sewanee conferred the degree in 1963, about startlingly lifelike Plasticine models of the time he returned to Britain as Principal of Coates Hall in worthies of the time. I’m sure I was not alone in wondering . Bishop Woollcombe was one of Fr Kenneth’s whether these effigies still exist — and is he still making parishioners and was buried from Pershore Abbey in 2008. them? From Charles Tsua we received a Because of the number of people present this time, ‘mourning cap’: a black square cap with there was no formal group photograph — which in the past black ribbons in saltire and a black has included a version in which members stand with their rosette replacing the button and tassel. backs to the camera in order to display their hoods. Such a cap would be worn in place of the Nevertheless, this tenth-anniversary gathering was a usual square cap when a person was in convivial occasion in a wonderful setting — how lucky the mourning for a family member or a close friend. Mr Tsua Society is to have Charterhouse as its regular meeting place undertook the necessary modifications himself. — and there seems to be little danger of its activities With my election as Chairman of the Society, the diminishing while members continue to find so many topics post of Archivist falls vacant. Should any member of the for research or for mere curiosity in this rich field. Society wish to assume the role (or know of someone who www.burgon.org.uk might), please speak to the Registrar. © Church Times, Friday, 22nd October, 2010 Colin Fleming

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