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THE VESTRY.
Twenty-three meetings of the Vestry were held during
the year, of which two were convened for special purposes.
The Chair.
Mr. Churchwarden Zephaniah King, F.R.I.B.A.,
was the "customary chairman" of the Vestry
during the year. The Venerable Archdeacon Farrar, D.D.,
the Rector of St. Margaret's, twice took the chair, and Mr.
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Churchwarden Hunt, Mr. Churchwarden Lough, Sir Walter
de Souza, L.C.C., Mr. Thomas Horn, Mr. Frederick Rose,
and Mr. C. Spencer Smith were also occasional chairmen.
Votes of
Condolence.
At the meeting of the Vestry on the 27th
January, 1892, the Venerable Archdeacon Farrar
beino- in the chair, the following vote of condolence with
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the Royal Family upon the occasion oi the death of H. R. H.
the Duke of Clarence and Avondale (Prince Albert Victor
of Wales) was unanimously passed upon the motion of the
Reverend Canon Furse, M.A., Rector of St. John's, seconded
by Mr. Churchwarden Henry A. Hunt:—
That this Vestry, representing the ancient City of Westminster,
desire to express to Her Majesty the Queen, to their Royal
Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, to Her Highness
the Princess Victoria May of Teck, Her Royal Highness the
Duchess and His Serene Highness the Dake of Teck, and the
other members of the Royal Family, their heartfelt sympathy
under the heavy bereavement with which it has pleased God
to afflict them in the death of His Royal Highness the Duke
of Clarence and Avondale.
Copies of this resolution were transmitted to the
Comptrollers of the several Royal Households therein
referred to, and the following acknowledgments were
subsequently ordered by the Vestry to be entered upon the
Minutes:—
B Whitehall,
18th February, 1892.
Sir,
I have had the honour to lay before the Queen the loyal and
dutiful Resolution which has been adopted by the Vestry of
St. Margaret and St. Jolm, Westminster, on the occasion of the