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Puzzle 27 · Collectors and the Carol Revival · Page 45 in print

John Mason Neale

While at East Grinstead, John Mason Neale founded a nursing sisterhood, St. Margaret’s, which began at Rotherfield and later added an orphanage and a school for girls.

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  1. Camden Society

    The Cambridge Camden Society, which Neale helped found in 1839.

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  2. East Grinstead

    The Sussex town where Neale spent the rest of his life.

  3. Eastertide

    Carols for Eastertide (1854), Neale and Helmore’s second carol book.

  4. Harvard

    The American university that gave Neale an honorary doctorate.

  5. Hymnal Noted

    The hymn book of 1851–1854, most of it translated by Neale.

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  6. Lamb's Conduit

    Lamb’s Conduit Street, London, where Neale was born in 1818.

  7. Madeira

    The island where Neale went for his health in 1843.

  8. Orphanage

    One of the works attached to Neale’s sisterhood at East Grinstead.

  9. Sackville

    Sackville College, East Grinstead, where Neale was warden from 1846.

  10. Seatonian

    The Cambridge prize for a sacred poem, which Neale won eleven times.

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  11. Shepperton

    The village where Neale grew up after his father’s death.

  12. Sherborne

    The Dorset school town where Neale was educated.

  13. Sisterhood

    St Margaret’s Sisterhood, the nursing order Neale founded.

  14. Thomas Helmore

    Neale’s musical partner for Carols for Christmastide (1853).

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  15. Trinity

    Trinity College, Cambridge, where Neale won a scholarship in 1836.

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Sources

  1. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900: Neale, John MasonDictionary of National Biography, vol. 40 (1894), ‘Neale, John Mason’ by J. H. Overton; Wikisource transcription
  2. A Cambridge Alumni Database (Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses), University of Cambridgevenn.lib.cam.ac.uk
  3. The Oxford Book of Carols : Percy Dearmer, R. Vaughan Williams, Martin ShawThe Oxford Book of Carols, ed. Dearmer, Vaughan Williams and Shaw (Oxford University Press, 1928); Internet Archive scan (preface and notes)

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