SPEAKER'S CHAIR
OFFER BY ALL SOULS
COLLEGE
RUGBY, May 17.
All Souls College, at Oxford University, has offered the Commons for at least the duration of the war the actual Speaker's chair used by Charles S. Abbot from 1802 to 1817. The college Warden wrote: "The use of the chair at this time might be a link with the past and a token of the permanence of the British Parliamentary institution." —8.0. W.
Charles S. Abbot wa,s Speaker of Ihe House of Commons from 18Q2 to 1317. He was a Fellow of All Souls^College.
LONDON —Air Commodore Huskinson, designer of Britain's new powerful bombs, whose eyes were injured by bomb blast in' a recent London raid*, will recoyer his sight.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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