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Reference: D/X 923 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, vicar of Darlington, St. Paul

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Catalogue Description

Records deposited on long-term loan

10 October 1990 (Acc: 1949(D))

County Record Office,
County Hall,
DURHAM.
DHl 5UL

Records collected by Rev. I.A. Gomersall concerning Rev. R. A. Jardine, vicar of the parish of Darlington, St. Paul, from 1927 to 1937. Mr Jardine married the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in 1937, left the Church of England, emigrated to the United States, and died in 1950.

Catalogue Contents

Records of Darlington, St. Paul (Ref: D/X 923/1-4)

Blotter Year Book of the parish of Darlington, St. Paul, 1928 - 1929 Includes: a copy photograph of, and vicar's letter by, Rev. R.A. Jardine, 1928
(1 booklet)


Photograph of a drawing of the exterior of the church of Darlington, St. Paul, n.d., c. 1868; copy made, n.d.
(1 photograph, 5cm. x 8cm., black and white)


Copy photograph of a drawing of the interior of the church of Darlington, St. Paul, n.d., c. 1868; copy made, n.d.
(1 photograph, 5cm. x 8cm., black and white)


Copy photograph of the exterior of the church of Darlington, St. Paul, n.d.
(1 paper)

Records concerning the Rev. R.A. Jardine (Ref: D/X 923/5-8)

Photograph of Rev. R.A. Jardine with his wife, 1920
(1 photograph, 6.5cm. x 9cm., black and white)


Photograph of Rev. R.A. Jardine, members of the choir, and members of the congregation, outside St. Paul's Church, Darlington, 1936
(1 photograph, 21.5cm. x 15.5cm., black and white)


Picture postcard of Rev. R.A. Jardine when vicar of St. Paul's Darlington, n.d., c. 1936
(1 postcard, 8.5cm. x 13.5cm., black and white)


Photograph of Rev. R. A. Jardine at his cathedral in United States of America, n.d.
(1 photograph, 12cm. x 9cm., black and white)

Newspaper cuttings and copies of articles in newspapers (Ref: D/X 923/9-17)

Photocopy of an extract from unidentified newspaper describing the career of Rev. R.A. Jardine, n.d., c.1937
(1 paper)


Photocopy of extracts from the Liverpool Echo on the career of Rev. R. A. Jardine, and photograph of Chateau de Cande at Tours, France, where the Duke of Windsor was to marry Mrs. Warfield, 2 June 1937
(3 papers)


Photocopy of extract from the New York Times, entitled, "Anglican to marry Windsor in Chateau ceremony", 3 June 1937
(3 papers)


Photocopy of article from the New York Times, entitled, "Vicar reveals joy at Windsor rites", 3 June 1937
(2 papers)


Photocopy of extract from the New York Times, showing a photograph of the Rev. R. A. Jardine and his wife, on board the Queen Mary on their arrival in New York, 6 July 1937
(1 paper)


Photocopy of article from the New York Times on the death of the Rev. R. A. Jardine, 11 May 1950
(1 paper)


Extract from an article in Stamp Collecting on the first day covers of Edward VIII, 30 April 1981
(1 paper, printed)


Edition of The Times on the death of the Duchess of Windsor, 25 April 1986
(5 papers, printed)


Extract from The Times, describing the funeral of the Duchess of Windsor, 30 April 1986
(1 paper, printed)

Correspondence concerning the Rev. R. A. Jardine, sent to Rev. I. Gomersall (Ref: D/X 923/18-23)

Letters from Mrs. Winifred Bonas, Churchwarden of the Seale, Burton on Trent, Staffordshire, to Rev. Ian Gomersall, Cambridge, concerning Rev. R. A. Jardine's connection with Overseal, Derbyshire, 1 October - 24 October 1980 Rev. R. A. Jardine was curate of Nether with Overseal, Derbyshire, from 1923 to 1927
(4 papers)


Letters from A. L. Kensit, secretary, Protestant Truth Society, to Rev. I. Gomersall, Cambridge, concerning Rev. R. A. Jardine, 23 October - 31 October 1980 Enclosed: an extract from the Churchman's Magazine, September 1931
(3 papers)


Letters from R. V. [H......], Headmaster, Liverpool College, Liverpool, Merseyside; E. Clarke, Headmaster of Liverpool Collegiate Comprehensive School, Liverpool, Merseyside; Rev. H. R. T. Brandreth, London; to Rev. Ian Gomersall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire; concerning Rev. R. A. Jardine's connection with Liverpool, 23 January - 17 February 1981
(3 papers)


Letter from Rev. William Norgren, Episcopal Church Centre, New York, United States of America, to Rev. Ian Gomersall, concerning the career of Rev. R. A. Jardine, 30 April 1981 Enclosed: extracts from Bishops at Large by Peter Anson, n.d., and Episcopi Vagantes by H. R. P. Brandreth, n.d.
(3 papers)


Letter from John D. Barkman, Blinn College, Brenham Texas, United States of America, to Rev. Ian Gomersall, concerning the Brenham Bible Institute and Rev. R. A. Jardine, 28 September 1981
(1 paper)


Letter from Bishop C. L. Saul, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, to Rev. Ian Gomersall, concerning biographical details of Rev. R. A. Jardine, 6 November 1985
(1 paper)

Note concerning the career of Rev. R.A. Jardine (Ref: D/X 923/24-25)

Notes on the career of Rev. R. A. Jardine taken from Crockfords Clerical Directories, n.d.; notes on the episcopal tree, n.d.; and notes on the career of the Rev. Frank Dyer, n.d.; notes on the career of Charles Leslie Saul, n.d.; notes on the death in 1903 of Robert Jardine, father of Rev. R. A. Jardine, n.d.
(11 papers)


Notes made from information contained in newspaper articles in The Times and the New York Times, and in various biographies, concerning the wedding of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Warfield, n.d.

Autobiography of Rev. R. A. Jardine (Ref: D/X 923/26)

Photocopy of the autobiography of Bishop R. Anderson Jardine, The Supernatural in a Commonplace Life, n.d.
(104 papers)