Item 3 - Bishop Cary-Elwes to Mgr Godfrey, Rome: Arrange for the Huddlestons to attend a Mass with the Pope

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GB ARCHON 2913 PA40-a-00-01-3

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Bishop Cary-Elwes to Mgr Godfrey, Rome: Arrange for the Huddlestons to attend a Mass with the Pope

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  • 16 March 1931 (Creation)

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1 page; 1 side; typescript; copy

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(1868-1932)

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Born: Nice, France on 5 February 1868
Parents: Valentine Dudley Henry Cary Elwes & (second) wife Alice Geraldine née Ward
Ordained: 30 May 1896
Bishop: Diocese of Northampton from 21 November 1921 to 1 May 1932; consecration 15 December 1921 [principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Arthur Doubleday of Brentwood and Bishop Thomas Dunn of Nottingham]
Died: 1 May 1932, aged 64,
Buried: Great Billing, Northamptonshire

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Accession: 5978/2004; 2016 catalogue: XNP 2 Cambridge 37

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Northampton Diocese Archive

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Asking Mgr Godfrey to help Commander & Mrs Eyre Huddleston who are spending Easter in Rome and would like to attend Holy Father's Mass. Explains they are of Sawston Hall, one of the old English Catholic houses where Mass was said during the Penal Days. Mrs Eyre Huddleston is the daughter of Sir Edward ad Lady Philippa Stewart (niece of the late Duke of Norfolk). Both are fine Catholics. He says he has given them a letter of introduction.

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      127mm x 203mm

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      PA40a

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