Robin Ward

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@ClarkeMicah @janinethechef1 Right as a Ribstone Pippin …

[Athanasius @Athanasius_45]

The rules of Greek accentuation are great fun, as the preface to Henry Chandler's book concerning this subject shows:

[• 𝐅𝐒𝐌𝐆 • @FSMG_99]

Viendo la Santa Misa Funeral de Toledo he recordado la Misa de Requiem celebrada en la Catedral Primada por IV Centenario de la muerte del Greco.

Mons. Braulio Rodríguez Plaza se revestío con casulla del s. XVII y la mitra funeraria del siglo XV del Cardenal Cisneros.

[House of Commons @OurCommons]

The Dominion Carillonneur Andrea McCrady offers “The Last Post,” a traditional bugle call that remembers and honours the fallen, played on the Peace Tower Carillon.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@derwahlheimer @WeatherOnMars @Energheea Newman thought he’d get a first in Maths and a second in Classics.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

This is what John Henry Newman ‘took up’ for Schools at Oxford in 1820. He was examined for Honours in both Classics and Mathematics.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@AndrewSabisky @E76789702E @johnamonaco @exRhenum I think I said that prayer for the dead was not able to alter the post mortem destiny of the departed, and that Gregory rescuing Trajan was the exception proving the rule.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@AndrewSabisky @E76789702E @johnamonaco @exRhenum I did. It was in a speech in favour of authorising in perpetuity the Series 1 Burial Service.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@AndrewSabisky @E76789702E @johnamonaco @exRhenum

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

Ezra Pound about Camões's glorious masterpiece, The Lusiads (in The Spirit of Romance).

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

Odd to find this on sale at The British Museum.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@simonsarmiento I like the de-gendering of ombudsman!

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@SalemLola

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@2D0XPS @liturgicalben That’s a lot in the Canal Zone for 1951, when my father was there.

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@2D0XPS @liturgicalben Thank you!

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@liturgicalben @2D0XPS And I think the only year

[Fr. Paolo D'Angona @RomanoSace57080]

"Habent sua fata libelli": F. A. von Spiegel (*1764, † 1835), Archbishop of Cologne, left his library (13,366 volumes), which he called "his sanctuary", to Cologne Cathedral. In 1927, Fr. H. Schröers wrote about it: "It withers away in a chamber of the cathedral's north tower."

[Robin Ward @DrRobinWard]

@John_ForemanCBE And remarkable that Bonnie Prince Charlie was prayed for there as Prince of Wales when he arrived there in 1745.

[Śaśāṅkaḥ | 𐌂𐌄𐌔𐌀𐌖𐌍𐌂𐌖𐌔 🦜 @cesauncus]

This is what the #Portuguese accent of Goa sounded like, particularly among the educated classes during the colonial period. The speaker is Dr Manohar Sardessai, a renowned Goan poet widely regarded as one of the greatest literary figures in Konkani, the Goan language.

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Pictured: the Cambridge mafia, 1964

Norman Fowler, Michael Howard, John Gummer, Ken Clarke, Leon Brittan, David Frost and Norman Lamont

Brittan and Gummer were ushers at Clarke's wedding

Vince Cable, Jonathan Lynn and Peter Cook were among their contemporaries