Welsh Journals

Clive and the rural deans. The debt owed to Edward, earl of Powis was fittingly expressed by the dean and chapter of St Asaph it can never be a matter of regret for you to have linked your own name and that of your family to the history of the British Church, and to have interwoven. them at the same time in the best affections of your countrymen." The author is to be congratulated and we hope that he will now tell us something about the bishops who were nominated to St Asaph post Powis. T W Pritchard Berriew D T W Price, A History of Saint David's University College, Lampeter, volume 2: 1898-1971. University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 1990. xiii, 270pp. ISBN 0 7083 1062 1. Price. £ 12. 95. The Revd D T W Price has now completed to 1971 his excellent and very readable account of the College at which he has taught history since 1970. In a disarmingly frank preface, the author notes the greater difficulty, of writing this second volume in which the actions and characters of living men and those only recently dead are portrayed. No doubt this is especially true when one's subject is so small a community as Lampeter" But Mr Price need not apologise for his book: this very carefully balanced history, with its deft (and sometimes wry) character sketches and touches of humour, is written with elegance and honesty, but with sympathy and affection too, so that the less admirable episodes (such as the quarrel between two professors of in 1942) are dealt with quite fully and fairly but without any tendency to sensation- alise them The central theme of the volume must inevitably be the "Lampeter question", to coin a phrase.. Neither (on the one hand) quite a university or even a university college nor yet (on the other hand) exactly an Anglican seminary, it was in fact sui generis. This posed particularly awkward problems for the dedicated and indefatigable principals especially H K Archdall (1938-53) and J R Lloyd Thomas (1953-75) as they sought solutions to inadequate financial resources through prolonged negotiations with various hostile or indifferent .bodies such as the University of Wales and the University Grants Committee. How Lloyd Thomas eventually secured the college's future is a remarkable story, first told at length by himself in Moth or Phoenix?, and now told more concisely and with slight revisions. Whether the principal really liked the college as it grew and changed character through the 1960s and 1970s one may wonder William Price emphasises that Lloyd Thomas was first and foremost