A Golden Wedding: On Wednesday last Sir Monier Monier-Williams, K.C.I.E., D.C.L., Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of Oxford, and Lady Monier-Williams, celebrated their golden wedding at the residence of their eldest son, Mr. M. F. Monier-Williams, at Chessington, Surrey. Sir Monier, who was born in Bombay in 1819, is a son of the late Colonel Monier-Williams (Royal Engineers), Surveyor-General of the Bombay Presidency. Lady Monier-Williams is one of the daughters of the lath Rev. Francis J. Faithfull, rector of Hatfield, Herts, where in 1848 the marriage took place. Sir Monier was at that time, and until the abolition of the East India Company in 1858 Professor of Sanskrit at the East India College, Haileybury. He was appointed Boden Professor at Oxford in 1860, and is a well-known Oriental scholar, being author of many Sanskrit, Hindustani and other Oriental works. Notwithstanding his age, Sir Monier is still in vigorous health, and does not relax his daily literary labours. He is on the point of completing the second edition of his Sanskrit and English Dictionary, published by the University Press, which alone might well be considered the work of a lifetime. It will be remembered that he was the founder of the Indian Institute at Oxford, and that it is mainly due to his efforts that the building has been lately completed. The beautiful grounds of Mr. Monier-Williams house at Chessington (which was formerly the residence of his father-in-law, the late Mr. Gordon Wyatt Clark, D.L., of Mickleham Hall), are well adapted for such an occasion. The proceedings commenced with a service in the pretty little village church, at which only Sir Monier and Lady Monier-Williams, and their children and grandchildren, were present. The service was conducted by the Rev. Samuel Bickersteth, vicar of Lewisham, who is a son-in-law. In the afternoon a garden party was held, which was numerously attended by relatives and old friends, many of whom came from a great distance to be present and to offer their congratulations. A few, notably Lord Rollo and the Rev. Arthur Peile (Master of St. Katherine’s), had been present at the wedding in 1848. Sir Monier and Lady Monier-Williams received a number of valuable presents, including a large silver-gilt bowl of fine workmanship made by the Goldsmiths’ and Silversmiths’ Company, and given by Lady Monier-Williams nephews and nieces, and a screen given by her children and grandchildren, and containing their photographs taken for the occasion. Willoughby’s band was in attendance and played a good selection of music. Mr. and Mrs. Monier-Williams are also giving a dinner to their tenants, in honour of the event. Amongst those invited to the garden party were: — The Countess of Cavan, Lord and Lady Rollo, the Lady Rayleigh, the Lady and Maud Barrett, Lord and Lady Tollemache, the Bishop of Rochester and Mrs. Talbot, the Bishop of Exeter and Mrs. Bickersteth, the Dean of Ripon, and the Hon. Mrs. Fremantle, Sir Frauds and Lady Outran, Sir Charles and Lady Bernard, Sir William and Miss Herschel, Lady Pinsent, the Rev. Canon and Mrs. Rawlinson, the Master of University College and Miss Bright, the Rector of Lincoln College and Mrs. Merry, the Warden of New College, the Master of Pembroke College and Mrs. Price, the Master of St. Katherine’s and Mrs. Peile, Professor and Mrs. Montagu Burrows, Mr. and Mrs. Langrishe, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Scully, Mr. Percy Wigram, Mrs. Fotheringham (of Fotheringham), Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Aitken, Dr. and Mrs. Church, Mr. and Mrs. Seton-Barr, Mr. and Mrs. Don, the Rev. and Mrs. Colquhoun Faithfull, Captain Crauford Gordon Clark (King’s Royal Rifles) and Mrs. Gordon Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reynolds Williams (Dolmelynllyn), Mr. and Mrs. Romer Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wason, Miss Brenda Wason, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Lee, Mr. John Crombie, M.P., and Mrs. Crombie, Mrs. Joyce, Mr. W. H. Joyce, General and Mrs. Beynon, the Rev. and Mrs. James Faithfull, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Fanshawe, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Faithfull, Mr. and Mrs. Fredk. Sheppard, Mrs. and Miss Babington, the Rev. Robert Davies, Miss Faithfull, Miss Amy Faithfull, Miss Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chittenden, Mr. Arthur Chittenden, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Churchill, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Gordon Clark, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Lee Steere, Captain and Mrs. Christopher, Mr. and Mrs. Olive, Mr. end Mrs. Massie Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Carr Gomm, the Rev. H. and Mrs. Walley, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Hogarth, Mr. and Mrs. Vardon, Mrs. and Miss Upton-Robins, Dr. and Mrs. Eastwick-Flail, Mr. and Mrs. Latham Brown, the Misses Ouseley, Mr. Horace Peile, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Wigrant, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Gordon Clark (Mickleham Hall), Mr. and Mrs. Lancelot Fletcher, Mrs. Husted, Mrs. Newton, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Storr, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Storr, Mrs. A. H. Bather, Mr. Sere, Dr. and Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Sneade Brown, Mr. Rigby Wason, etc., and the following sons and daughters-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Torrington, Montagu, Stanley, and Outram Monier-Williams, the Rev. Samuel and Mrs. Bickersteth (daughter), and Mrs. Cyril Monies-Williams.
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GRO0254 Hennock: Emily Hetty Sabine Homfray: 1845 – 1922