MEMORIAL TO LORD MILNER

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 20

MEMORIAL TO LORD MILNER

RESTORED CHAPEL OF CANTERBURY. The> memorial to Viscount Milner in Canterbury Cathedral is near completion, states an English exchange. It has taken the form of the restoration of the, Ch-apel of.St. Martin of Tours, in the north-east, transept, close to the cenotaph of. Archbishop Tate, father-in-law of the . present Primate. On the walls of the tiny chapel are inscribed the words, "This chapel, dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, is restored as a shrine sacred to the Christian spirit of service^ In memory of Alfred Viscount Milner, who devoted his life to the social and national well-being of his country at home and overseas 1854-1925..""' -.■■". ■ ; - ' ' To this' chapel, after the great fire in the .cathedral in 1174, were removed the remains of two Saxon Archbishops —"Wulfred (805) and Lyfing (1013)— of Archbishop Lanfrane (1070), who had largely rebuilt tho cathedral, and of Queen Ediva. Part of the beautiful east window depicts the story, of Martin dividing his cloak with a beggar. Martin was the warrior-saint after whom Queen Bertha's Church at Canterbury was called. Incidentally St. Martin's cloak (cappolla) -gave us the word chapel. . Tho. Canterbury Cathedral memorial is being paid for. by friends of the late Viscount, arid the whole of the. £20,----000 collected for the national memorial, with the exception of a small sum for a tablet 'in Westminster Abbey, is being used for the King's School at Canterbury. Viscountess Milner gave Sturry Court, -their residence, just outside Canterbury, to.the King's School, and it is being turned into the Junior King's School with the1 help of some of the money. The balance is being utilised for the founadtion of scholarships to and from the King's School.