by GodleyA | Oct 13, 2018 | Events
The school was especially keen that ‘Godley Gifts’ should be presented at the formal lunch given to coincide with the 7-year reunion of alumni of ‘Kilbracken House’, one of the school’s boarding houses, on 13th October 2018. Headmaster...
by GodleyA | Oct 10, 2018 | Events
Reception hosted by the Lord Speaker, Rt. Hon. The Lord Fowler The River Room, House of Lords I would like to highlight the presence of two people in the group photo. Christopher James 4th Baron Northbourne (extreme right, with stick) and Mary Weston (fifth from...
by GodleyA | Sep 27, 2018 | Events
Presentation of Godley Gifts to Dame Helen Ghosh, Master of Balliol Reception hosted by The Master ‘The most distinguished Balliol man of his time’ was how Prime Minister Asquith described Arthur Godley. Arthur and his grandson, the 3rd Baron Kilbracken,...
by GodleyA | Sep 15, 2009 | Events
On 15 September, at Buckingham Palace in London, the gift of the prize-winning New Zealand bookset, Godley Gifts to Her Majesty The Queen, was accepted, on behalf of The Queen, by the Palace’s Director of Records, Mr David Ryan. The bookset will be placed in...
by GodleyA | Mar 20, 2009 | Events
On 20 March, at Christ Church, Oxford, Christopher Godley (Lord Kilbracken) presented a copy of Godley Gifts, to the college’s library, where it will be housed alongside the manuscript material of Alice in Wonderland. Alice was written at Christ Church by one of...
by GodleyA | Mar 7, 2009 | Events
Letter to the Editor of The Press, Christchurch, 7 March 2009:Sir, Today the John Robert Godley Memorial Trust, named after Canterbury’s founder and of which I am patron, makes available on the web the complete award-winning heritage book publication, Godley...
