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Society History
Abbot Geoffrey Scott has published a history of the Society in the 2019 Douai Magazine - No 181,Page 71 (1868 - 2017).
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Society President Michael Skivington also reported in 2012;
"The Society was formed in 1868.
A menu
records the Jubilee Dinner. See the
photo of the cover of an early secretary's minute book from 1873
, the first page which lists the early venues where meetings were held and
the opening page of the minutes of the first recorded meeting at the Clarendon Hotel Oxford
. This was of course thirty years before the monastery and school moved to England.
There are also two early pictures of those attending AGMs.
One is from 1910
and
the other
includes the impressively bearded Archbishop Bilsborrow OSB flanked by Abbots Taylor and Hurley . I did not make a note of the date of the later picture. There was an annual report in 1927 two pages of which show the
early past presidents, the council and a list of patrons of the Society
that must have included the whole of the English hierarchy. There is a
1927 picture of a Douai dinner
taken at the Criterion restaurant in London with Fr. Ignatius and Abbot Mooney in the centre of the top table.
A more recent photo
taken at the 1953 jubilee dinner shows Abbot Mooney chatting to Bishop "Jock" Tickle."
And Michael has also collected some pictures of
Abbots of Douai
,
School Headmasters
and
sports teams over the years.
Complete Archive Picture Gallery