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Harper/Box 1/3/1
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- 5 Apr. 1944 (Creation)
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2 p paper
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Born in Bristol, the son of a Somerset accountant, Harper was educated at Bristol Grammar School. He came up to Cambridge in 1887, initially as a Non-Collegiate student and then as a pensioner at St John's College. Graduating BA in 1890, with a Third Class in Part I of the Theological Tripos, Harper was ordained in 1892 and embarked upon a clerical career. His first post was as Curate of Holy Trinity, Oxford (1892-5) and he subsequently held positions as Curate of Portman Chapel, London (1895-6), Associate Secretary of C.P.A.S. (1897-9), Rector of West Harling, Norfolk (1899-1915), and Rector of Riddlesworth with Gasthorpe and Knettishall (1915-24). At his old Cambridge college Harper established the Harper-Wood Travelling Studentship in English Poetry and Literature. He died in New South Wales in 1947.
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Encloses three short poems that he has written about Winston Churchill. Asks permission to publish them in a book of verse. Explains that the anecdote about Lord Randolph Churchill, entitled 'On the rug', was told to him by Sir William Anson, Warden of All Souls. Gives some biographical detail about himself, mentioning his time as 'own correspondent' on the farming page of the 'London Daily Telegraph'.