Morant Commemorations Fifty Years Ago
From the Society’s Annual
Report 1966: “The work of the Revd. Philip Morant,
M.A., F.S.A., was further remembered by the events of Tuesday, 15th March,
1966, when, at Aldham Church, The Patron of the Society [Sir John Ruggles-Brise]
unveiled a memorial tablet in Stone, commemorating the removal of the tombstone
of the historian and his wife from the older churchyard to the sanctuary of the
present church. At St. Mary-at-the-Walls Church, Colchester [now Colchester
Arts Centre] Sir John Ruggles-Brise, unveiled a carved memorial tablet of oak;
this tablet, bearing the arms of Morant, is placed in the tower
entrance. The Rt. Revd. Dr. Roderic Coote, Bishop of Colchester, Vice-President
of the Society, dedicated the tablets. The Revd. C. Philip Gilman, Rector of
Aldham, and the Revd. Ralph Stevens, Rector of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, conducted
the services in their respective parishes. The Orders of Service [now available
in digital format] included a biography of Morant written by the Hon. Secretary
[John Appleby].”
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