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of Sunday Trading, and consulted the Archbishop 

 of Canterbury, urging him to move it. To 

 which the Archbishop rephed, fully approving 

 the terms of the resolution and promising it his 

 support, but affirming emphatically that Lord 

 Avebury, and none other, was the man to 

 introduce it. 



Accordingly, on March 9, he brought forward 

 in the House of Lords his motion on what he 

 now terms Sunday Shopping, rather than Trading, 

 and carried it without a division. A Joint 

 Committee of both Houses was appointed to 

 consider it, and he was elected Chairman. The 

 Committee reported strongly against Sunday 

 Shopping, and in favour of legislation to give 

 effect to that view. The Committee took up 

 much of his time during the summer. 



This year, as has been observed, we hear him 

 for the first time speaking of himself as capable 

 of somewhat less than his youthful power of work. 

 Nevertheless, by way of exhibiting how much, 

 even at this date of comparative leisureliness, 

 he was able to put into an ordinary day, we may 

 note his entry for February 8. He had gone 

 down the previous day to Liverpool. We may 

 be very sure that he had done several hours' 

 work at one or other of his books before the first 

 entry for the 8th of " British and Foreign Marine 

 Insurance annual meeting at 11.30. Then to 

 the University, where the V.C. (Dale) and 

 Herdman showed me round. Then to lunch 

 at the University Club, where Mr. A. Theodore 

 Brown had invited the V.C, Major Ross, Professor 

 Shevington, Herdman, Mr. Carse, and Mr. Moore. 



