GOG AND MAGOG HILLS
PRESERVATION SUPPORTED A message from the King to the Gog and Magog Hills Preservation Society was read at the society’s annual gathering by the Duke of Gloucester, as follows: “Please convey my sincere thanks to the past and present Cambridge men for their kind and loyal message. As a former Cambridge undergraduate I have learned with interest and sympathy of the movement to preserve the Gog and Magog Hills, which are to all of us such a wellknown landmark.”
The Duke who, like the King, is a former member of Cambridge University, gave his support to the movement. He referred to the battle to preserve “the Gogs” against “the line of mean maisonettes” slowly creeping towards them. If the Marquess of Willingdon succeeded in raising the money necessary for the purpose of preservation, the Duke suggested that he might have the additional title of “Lord Protector of the Gogs” conferred on him.
Lord Willingdon read a message from Earl Baldwin, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, wishing success to the movement and announced that the appeal towards the £40,000 required had resulted in contributions amounting to £5500.
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Thames Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 13 April 1938, Page 4
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