GB. a rare cancellation.

(I am guessing )

6th July 1920
Stonyhurst CDS, a 300 acre college
One of the pupils there, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
author of Sherlock Holmes.

http://cjoint.com/data/fAf6eYWRjO.htm

On May 26, 12:02*am, "rodney" wrote:
(I am guessing )

6th July 1920
Stonyhurst CDS, a 300 acre college
One of the pupils there, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
author of Sherlock Holmes.

http://cjoint.com/data/fAf6eYWRjO.htm


ACD attended Stonyhurstr from age 11.

His time spent at Stonyhurst was not a particularly
happy one, although the records show that the young
Doyle was a better than average performer.

The spartan surroundings and the Jesuit discipline
did not appeal to the young ACD, and it appears
that he experienced his fair share of corporal punishment.

Fortunately, Conan Doyle's mother struggled to meet
the expense of his education at Stonyhurst, rather
than dedicate the boy's life to the Jesuits in return
for a free education.

It was during his Stonyhurst years that Conan Doyle
began seriously to examine his religious beliefs and,
by the time he left the school in 1875, he had firmly
rejected Catholicism, and probably Christianity in general,
and had become an agnostic.

The turmoil and questioning which must have taken
place in his own mind is dealt with in some detail in the
semi-autobiographical novel, The Stark Munro Letters.

The history of Stonyhurst as a school dates back to a period
considerably prior to its foundation on English soil in 1794.

Stonyhurst is the lineal descendant of the college founded
by Father Robert Persons in 1592, at St. Omer in Artois,
for English boys, compelled by the penal laws of Elizabethan
times to seek on the continent that religious education which
was denied them at home.

Driven from St. Omer in 1762 by the hostility of the Parlement
of Paris, the college was transferred to Bruges, where it
remained under the protection of the Empress Maria Theresa
till dispersed by the suppression of the Society (Jesuits) in 1773.

Within the same year, however, the staff and students had
reassembled and continued their collegiate life at Liège
under the patronage of the prince bishop of that city.

The approach of the French revolutionary armies in 1794 again
compelled the college to seek a new home, and this time it
found one in its native land at the mansion of Stonyhurst Hall
in Lancashire, which had been placed at the disposal of the
community by Mr.Thomas Weld of Lulworth, heir of the
Shireburns on Stonyhurst and himself a past student of the
college at Bruges.

By a strange coincidence Stonyhurst Hall had been rebuilt
by Sir Richard Shireburn in 1592, the very year of the
foundation of St. Omer; so that the scholastic life of the college,
which has now been established at Stonyhurst for 117 years,
but reaches back more than 200 years before that final settlement,
is coeval with that of its present domicile.

Amongst the well known, non-clerical graduates are found :
Charles Waterton, the famous naturalist;
Richard Lalor Sheil, the great parliamentary orator;
Sir Thomas Wyse, a well-known and successful diplomat of the 18th
century;
Chief Baron Woulfe of the Irish Court of Exchequer, the first Catholic
to be
elevated to the Irish Bench, and
Judge Nicholas Ball, the second Catholic to enjoy that dignity;
the Hon. Charles Langdale, one of the foremost Catholic leaders of
Emancipation days;
Dr. George Oliver, the antiquary and Church annalist;
Sir Frederick Weld, successively Premier of New Zealand,
Governor of Tasmania, and Governor of the Straits Settlements,
in which last-named colony another Stonyhurst man,
Sir Thomas Sulgreaves, was Chief Justice;
Sir William Hackett, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Ceylon;
the Rt. Hon. Sir Nicholas O'Conor, British Ambassador at
St. Petersburg and at Constantinople;
General Sir Montague Gerard, doyen of the foreign military attachés
with the Russian army during the Russo-Jaspanese War;
General Sir Charles Chichester, brigadier- general under
General De Lacy Evans in the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain in
1835;
Admiral Arthur Jerningham, who was attached to the personal guard of
Queen Victoria during the alarms of the Chartist disturbance;
the late Mr. Justice Walton;
Edward de Romaña, a former president of Peru;
Thomas Francis Meagher, the orator of the Young Ireland movement
and subsequently a general on the Federal side during the
American Civil War.

To this selection may be added in the domain of literature and art
Mr. Percy FitzGerald, F.S.A., a personal friend of Charles Dickens,
and author of many literary works;
Father John Gerard, S.J., the widely known writer on scientific,
historical, and controversial subjects;
Bernard Partridge, the "Punch" cartoonist;
Alfred Austin, the Poet Laureate.

Blair

On May 26, 12:02*am, "rodney" wrote:
(I am guessing )

6th July 1920
Stonyhurst CDS, a 300 acre college
One of the pupils there, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
author of Sherlock Holmes.

http://cjoint.com/data/fAf6eYWRjO.htm


Some Stonyhurst meter strips.
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/Images%20D/d_sto02.jpg
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/Images%20D/d_sto01.jpg

Blair

Produced by Brit Post
for their FDC celebrating Sherlock Holmes
centenary of the publication "The final problem" SG1781-1785.
Sir ACD


"Blair"
Some Stonyhurst meter strips.
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/Images%20D/d_sto02.jpg
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/Images%20D/d_sto01.jpg

Blair

On May 26, 6:32*pm, "rodney" wrote:
Produced by Brit Post
for their FDC celebrating Sherlock Holmes
centenary of the publication "The final problem" SG1781-1785.
Sir ACD


Why use meter strips and not stamps om a FDC?

B

Apologies, IIRC it was the cachet? or seal design
not the meter strip, of which this seal is part of.

"Blair"
Why use meter strips and not stamps om a FDC?

B

On May 26, 11:40*am, Blair wrote:
On May 26, 12:02*am, "rodney" wrote:

6th July 1920
Stonyhurst CDS, a 300 acre college
One of the pupils there, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
author of Sherlock Holmes.

http://cjoint.com/data/fAf6eYWRjO.htm

ACD attended Stonyhurstr from age 11.

His time spent at Stonyhurst was not a particularly
happy one, although the records show that the young
Doyle was a better than average performer....

What is less well known is that Blair simply looked at the cJoint
image, and was able to deduce all the extra information he provided
about Arthur Conan Doyle's life through simple methods. Elementary,
really.

--
Joshua H. McGee
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC
Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/

Thanks Joshua Watson,
where did the McGee come from?

I never read "The hound of the Baskervilles"
anyone recommend it?

"Joshua McGee"
What is less well known is that Blair simply looked at the cJoint
image, and was able to deduce all the extra information he provided
about Arthur Conan Doyle's life through simple methods. Elementary,
really.

--
Joshua H. McGee
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC
Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/

On May 27, 4:07 pm, "rodney" wrote:
Thanks Joshua Watson,
where did the McGee come from?

I never read "The hound of the Baskervilles"
anyone recommend it?

"Joshua McGee"
What is less well known is that Blair simply looked at the cJoint
image, and was able to deduce all the extra information he provided
about Arthur Conan Doyle's life through simple methods. Elementary,
really.

--
Joshua H. McGee
Sierra Madre, Los Angeles, California, USA
Member: APS, ATA, ISWSC, MBPC
Trade?: http://www.mcgees.org/stamp-offers/

As it happens, I'm reading the complete Sherlock Holmes in
reproduction at the moment (a large paperback at $A19.95 a year or two
ago, so may still be available in the backblocks). All good, clean
fun. The Hound is a trifle on the melodramatic side, but none the
worse for that. I enjoyed reading it again.

Tony

OK Thanks Tony,
I'll give it a bo peep.

"Asia-translation"
As it happens, I'm reading the complete Sherlock Holmes in
reproduction at the moment (a large paperback at $A19.95 a year or two
ago, so may still be available in the backblocks). All good, clean
fun. The Hound is a trifle on the melodramatic side, but none the
worse for that. I enjoyed reading it again.

Tony