A LINK WITH KEBLE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 20 August 1932, Page 11

A LINK WITH KEBLE.

TO THE EDITOB OF TBJE PBESS. Sir, —Such of your readers as have been following the lectures ou the Oxford Movement may be interested to know that Mr Henry Neale, whose obituary you publish this morning, lived at Hursley in his boyhood, and was in the Rev. John Keble'b Sunday School. When I was in charge of Springston more than thirty years ago, and Mr Neale was my churchwarden, he asked mo one day in reference to an article about Keble which had appeared in the New Zealand "Church News," whether the liev. John Koble was anybody .in particular in the Church of. I said, very much so; Keblo was a historic figure, n learner! divine, a poet, and. a leader in the Tractarian or Oxford movement. Neale then told me that he had had quite a lot*to do with Keble in his own boyhood, and had many and various memories of him, in the Church, in the village, in the church school, and in the rectory garden. He also remembered Miss Charlotte Yonge, the famous authoress who lived at Hursley: I think she had sometimes taught him in school or SundaySchool. These reminiscences of personalities prominent in the Oxford Movement give Henry Neale a claim to be considered a historic liuk with it.Yours, etc., 11. XORTHCOTE. EedcliiTs, August ,19th, 11)32.