SACRISTY PRESS

A biographical study of Eric Milner-White DSO 1884-1963, Dean of King's College, Cambridge 1918-41 and Dean of York 1941-63, Anglo-Catholic churchman, collector, restorer and aesthete. Allen Warren, with the inquisitiveness of a historian, opens many windows into the life of Eric Milner-White to provide the first thorough assessment of his gifts and complexities. We encounter far more than the Milner-White of Nine Lessons and Carols as we see into this twentieth century dean quest for the beauty of holiness through art, music, architecture, stained glass and, above all, the crafting of prayers. - Graham Usher, Bishop of NorwichThis book is not just a study of the churchman who made a college service into the intangible patrimony of the entire English-speaking world. It is the portrait of an era. When the Church of England was led by some of the cleverest and the bravest in our country. When the hyper-privileged organized missions to the poorest in our society. When the established Church was a key part of the Establish-ment. When the bases of our modern university system were being laid, and heritage conservation became a political imperative. When major public figures had very private lives. And when an unmarried Dean, with a taste for the ballet, charming young men and ceramics, could pass without comment. - Neil MacGregor, art historian