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- 1839-1998 (Creation)
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Orders of service. The service in Commemoration of Benefactors developed from the duty of medieval colleges to commemorate the dead. It survived the Reformation, taking the form of 'thanks and praise to Almighty God for our Founders and all our Benefactors'. For several years in the nineteenth century the practice of reading the Commemoration at the evening chapel service on College feast days was discontinued, but the idea was revived by the Senior Tutor, E.S. Roberts in 1894 when a date in November was fixed for an annual commemoration service, with an updated form of service based upon a version of c.1700 being drawn up by Roberts, John Venn and the Dean in 1899.
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See also texts of sermons delivered in chapel, some of which are commemoration of benefactors speeches.
See Peter Tranchell's papers for a supplementary copy of the form of service (PR:TL).