Professor Hamilton's Diary: Dec. 8, 1935

He hears the Archbishop of York on the radio; his name was William Temple

Professor Hamilton took Gwennie to Sunday school today. The minister, Dr. MacMillan, “invited me to hear the Archbishop of York on radio…but it was unsatisfactory,” he wrote. I take this to mean the quality of the broadcast was unsatisfactory, for the archbishop, William Temple, was an outstanding theologian, writer, and minister who was later elevated to Archbishop of Canterbury.

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The 1934 Philip de Laszlo portrait of William Temple as Archibishop of York was accessed via Wikimedia Commons.