Talk:Arthur Duncan-Jones

Hi. I have been asked by my cousins, descendants of Arthur Stuart D-J, to add to this page and am at present putting together some incidents of importance. I will just mention here: a) "Brethren in adversity", ed. Andrew Chandler, Church of England Record Society 1, The Boydell Press, Suffolk and N.Y.1997, which includes a memorandum by ASDJ for the Church of England Council on Foreign Relations, 26 July 1933. This describes a visit to Germany to assess the situation of the German Evangelical Church, then in a crisis of cleavage between autonomy and support by/of the State, and with leaders being imposed on it by Hitler. ASDJ met many of the leading clergymen and politician s, including an interview with Hitler himself, which so far as I am aware was the only occasion when a C.of E. representative talked with Hitler. This is also discussed inter alia in "Dean Duncan-Jones meets Adolf Hitler"Greg Slay, "Chichester History", no. 39, Summer 2020 available from chichesterlocalhistory.org.uk b) "Duncan-Jones of Chichester", S.C.Carpenter, A.R.Mowbray & Co. LTf, London 1956 which describes for instance the very significant role played by ASDJ in modernizing the C.of E. prayer book,liturgy and ritual ("Chichester Cathedral became a model for worship of a ceremonious, even a splendid kind, but always after the true English pattern"), and the enormous contribution he made to Church music, as well as the wide range of those who worked with and respected him, including Dr Gilbert Murray and T.S.Eliot.

I hope to finish additions to the main entry by the end of the year. ardj 77.193.165.60 Ardj (talk) 07:11, 8 August 2023 (UTC)