Accession Number

2022.006.018

Alternate Name

hymnal; songbook

Description

One brown leather hymnbook, the front cover and spine with gilded embossed lettering HYMNS.A.AND.M (Hymns Ancient and Modern). Inside the front cover on the first blank page is written: "Margaret Joan Sumner on her wedding day Feb. 12. 1896 W.W. Columbia TRUST_PRAY"

Narrative

This small book titled “Hymns Ancient and Modern” was presented to Margaret Joan Harvey by Bishop William Wilcox Perrin on her marriage to Lt. Berkeley Holme-Sumner at Victoria’s Christ Church Cathedral on February 12, 1896.  The Rt. Reverend William Wilcox Perrin D.D., was the Second Bishop of [British] Columbia from 1893 to 1911.

History of Use

This book was used by Margaret Joan Dunsmuir (Mrs. Berkeley Holme-Sumner) in England from 1896 until her death in 1952. It was then used by her daughter Georgiana Holme-Sumner in England, and later, in Scotland by her son, who donated the book to The Castle Society in 2022.

Dimensions

10.4 x 2.3 x 6.5 cm

Material

Leather; Paper