Calendar: 1957-1958 Page 464

THE THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT of KING'S COLLEGE LONDON UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE SESSION 1955-56 presented to the COURT of the COLLEGE Council and Corporation The Council has held three meetings together with the Theological Committee and two special meetings the first in September 1955 to appoint the new Dean and the second at the request of the Theological Committee in June 1956 to consider proposals for developing theological teaching in the College The Theological Committee has met once separately in May to appoint the new assistant staff at Warminster and to consider the new Dean's memorandum on future developments in theological teaching and to make recommendations on these proposals to the Council The Council joined with the whole Church and with many outside the Church in mourning the death of its Chairman the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Cyril Forster Garbett Lord Archbishop of York The Council was represented at his funeral by Canon Abbott For short time the Council was without either Chairman or Deputy- Chairman and it was with pleasure that it received news of the appoint- ment of the Bishop of Durham the Right Reverend Arthur Michael Ramsey to be Archbishop of York and of the Bishop of Guildford the Right Reverend Henry Colville Montgomery Campbell to be Bishop of London Both the new Chairman and the new Deputy-Chairman were already acquainted with the College and the Council welcomed the new Bishop of London when he took the Chair for the first time on March lst 1956 Faultless Esq Eng Mech was elected to membership of the Council as representative of the Associates in place of Skeat Esq Eng Mech whose term of office had expired The Council heard with regret of the death of the Dowager Vis- countess Hambleden who had been member of the Corporation since 1929