Archbishops Commission on Crown Appointments

Minutes, documents, drafts and correspondence created by the Commission.

The Commission was established in 1962 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, with the following terms of reference: "To consider the method of Crown Appointments to Ecclesiastical Offices and to make recommendations." The Commission was chaired by Lord Howick of Glendale with DR J A Guillum Scott and MR D M M Carey as joint Secretaries. Other members were: the Rev P H Boulton, Vicar of St John's Carlton, Nottinghamshire; the Rev J D Graham, Superior of the Community of the Resurrection; the Rev Canon W Warren Hunt, Vicar of Croydon; the Right Rev Leslie Stannard Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield until 1962; the Rev H M C Price, Rector of Newcastle-under-Lyme; the Rev J W Roxburgh, Vicar of Drypool, Hull; the Ven Carlyle Witton-Davies, Archdeacon of Oxford; Me A L Callow; Professor E F Jacob; Mrs Mildred Rawlinson; Mr William L Roots, QC, MP; Mr F T Willey, MP; and the Right Hon Sir Henry Willink, QC.

General International Standard Archival Description (ISAD[G]), 2nd edition, 1999.

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