Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888Edward VII, King of Great Britain
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Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888
Edward VII, King of Great Britain
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901
The report of the Hospital Saturday Fund
stated that the institution stood among the first for efficiency
and economy.
Before concluding his speech the Prince of Wales proposed the health of
the Lord Mayor, who is by virtue of his office President of the
institution. Mr. Kestin, the Secretary, read a list of donations and
subscriptions which, including 100 guineas from the chairman, exceeded
£2000.
AT KING'S COLLEGE.
_July 2nd, 1881._
The Prince of Wales, accompanied by the Princess, distributed the
principal prizes of the year at King's College, London, on the 2nd of
July, 1881. The Rev. Canon Barry, D.D., the Principal, received the
Royal visitors, and at the opening of the proceedings, said: "it will
always be a day in the annals of the College to be marked with a white
stone, when the Prince and Princess of Wales had come for the first time
among them, and on the jubilee day of the institution." After the
distribution of the prizes and decorations, the Prince acknowledging a
vote of thanks for his presence, proposed by the Duke of Cambridge, and
seconded by the Bishop of Gloucester, said:--
"Mr. Principal Barry, Ladies and Gentlemen,--For the very kind
words in which the illustrious Duke has proposed the vote of
thanks, the kind way in which it has been seconded by the Bishop
of Gloucester and Bristol, and the cordial manner in which you
have all been good enough to receive this vote, I ask you to
accept my most sincere thanks, and also the thanks of the
Princess of Wales for the kind way in which her name has been
alluded to to-day.
"It would have been a gratification to me on any day to come to
this college and present the prizes to the successful
competitors, but as this day is your jubilee day, your fiftieth
anniversary, it makes it still more interesting to me to come
here to-day and give away the prizes. After all that has fallen
from the lips of your Principal, and after perusing, though I
admit somewhat cursorily, the annual report, but little is left
for me to say; but all those who take an interest in the success
of this college will have every reason to be satisfied with the
state of the college, and with the report which I hold in my
hands. Everything connected with this institution is on a most
satisfactory and excellent footing.
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