"AN EVANGELICAL FAMILY REVEALED"

A new publication of the Bickersteth and Monier Williams Letters and Diaries 1880 to 1918 has been compiled by Margaret Ford and is currently available from YPD-Books, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe, York YO31 7ZG (tel: 01904 431213). Ordering on line at www.ford-bickersteth.co.uk

This is a most interesting  account of the life and times of Canon Samuel Bickersteth, Vicar of Leeds at the time of the First World War, whose marriage to Ella Monier-Williams united two large families. This compilation reveals the background, upbringing and lives of their six sons and a unique picture emerges of the professional and private lives of a clerical family of the period of transition from late Victorian into Edwardian times and beyond; a family with a boundless energy and enthusiasm for service to the Church, the Empire and the Services.