Commemoration Day 2022 - St Dunstan's College

A Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving In Commemoration of our Founders and Benefactors

Southwark Cathedral Friday 27 May 2022

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ORDER OF SERVICE Members of the congregation are requested not to take photographs or video recordings during this service. Please remember to switch off mobile phones.

BEFORE THE SERVICE Mr James Gough (Assistant Organist at Southwark Cathedral) Piece d’orgue BWV 572 JS Bach (1685-1750)

WELCOME The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark The congregation stands for the entrance of the procession

PROCESSIONAL MUSIC Brass Ensemble Trumpet Tune from Te Deum M A Charpentier (1643-1704) The congregation sits

St Dunstan’s Educational Foundation is a registered charity 312747 All hymns covered by the Christian Copyright Licensing have been reproduced under CCL Licence No 524169

THANKSGIVING The Revd Canon Colin J Luke Boswell, College Chaplain We come here today to give thanks to God for all our founders and benefactors, to pray for the school and, by the witness of our lives, to share our rich inheritance with others.

We are the stewards of many gifts, and so we remember before God the generosity of those who have gone before us, and among them we pray for the repose of the souls of: William Barrett (7.ix.1408) Sir William Sennock (or Sevenoak) (20.xii.1426) Sir Bartholomew James (24.xi.1481) Matthew Ernest (27.v.1505) Sir William Herriot (4.x.1506) Alderman Henry Herdson (27.vi.1555) Thomas Cuttell (17.iii.1556) Thomas Harry (11.vii.1557) Sir Richard Goldstone (27.v.1565) Sir Richard Champion (22.x.1568) Margaret Deane (16.v.1579) William Haines (5.ix.1590)

George Hanger (29.xi.1607) Sir Thomas Hunt (24.iv.1615) Barnard Hyde (xii.1630) Mirabelle Bennett (30.xi.1632) Lady Ann Conway (29.iii.1637) Anne Hyde (1647) William Bateman (2.vi.1648) Gilbert Keate (10.vi.1648) Sir John Moore * (1702) Sir William Russell (9.viii.1704) Sir Thomas Chitty (20.iii.1762) Edmund Turville (date unknown)

We remember them with gratitude and give thanks for their example; we continue to be grateful to all those who, like them, have given their time, their way of living and their gifts, to enrich our College.

HYMN

The congregation stands

1. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!

Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice; Tender to me the promise of His word; In God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice.

2. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of His name!

Make known His might, the deeds His arm has done; His mercy sure, from age to age the same; His holy name - the Lord, the Mighty One.

3. Tell out, my soul, the greatness of His might!

Powers and dominions lay their glory by.

Proud hearts and stubborn wills are put to flight, The hungry fed, the humble lifted high.

4. Tell out, my soul, the glories of His word!

Firm is His promise, and His mercy sure.

Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord To children’s children and for evermore!

Words: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) based on ‘The Magnificat’ as in the New English Bible Music: W. Greatorex (1877 – 1949)

The congregation remains standing

THE BIDDING PRAYER

Ibrahim Ahmed, Claudia Tremble and Jessica Kesse First, let us give thanks for all the men and women who, through the ages, have believed in the right of children to be educated, especially today remembering those, past and present, whose concern has been so great that they have given generously for the provision of our school.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

Let us give thanks for all those who ventured in faith to refound our school in Catford in order to bring an education based on Christian principles to the new growing outskirts of London.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

Let us give thanks for the succession of heads and staff who have served the school, and for the individual gifts they have brought, for the qualities of character and for the knowledge and skills they have sought to pass on.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

Let us, this present generation, give thanks for all St Dunstan’s College has done to enlarge our lives and increase our understanding, and for the experiences, opportunities and friendships it provides.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

Let us also give thanks for the larger community which is St Dunstan’s: for governors, parents and Old Dunstonians, and for all whose work or life, by support, interest or encouragement, touches and enriches the school.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

Let us give thanks for this Cathedral church of St Saviour and St Mary Overie, for its work and witness, for Christopher our bishop, for the work of The British Red Cross Ukraine appeal and for all people of good will.

For these and all your gifts, Response: We thank you, O Lord.

The congregation sits

FIRST READING

Psalm 150 Charlotte Mullens - Junior School Head Pupil Reader: Response:

This is the word of the Lord Thanks be to God The congregation stands

HYMN

1. Christ is the King! O Friends rejoice, Brothers and sisters with one voice, Let the world know he is your choice.

Alleluia!

4. Help us to strive against cruel greed, Seek justice here for all in need, And with Christ’s bread the hungry feed.

Alleluia!

2. O magnify the Lord, and raise Anthems of joy and holy praise For Christ’s brave saints of ancient days.

Alleluia!

5. Let love’s unconquerable might your scattered companies unite In service to the lord of light.

Alleluia!

3. Dunstan was such, one of the few Raised up to build your Church anew, Once more to make it strong and true.

Alleluia!

6. So shall God’s will on earth be done, New lamps be lit, new tasks begun, And the whole Church at last be one.

Alleluia!

Words: G.K.A. Bell (1883 – 1958) et alii Printed by permission of Oxford University Press Music: Melchior Vulpius (1570 – 1615)

The congregation sits

SECOND READING

The Letter of Colossians 3: 12 - 17 Kyria Peters - A member of the Lower School Marcella Benson & Agnes Sales Laudamus Te From Gloria RV589 Antonio Vivaldi

THIRD READING

The Gospel of Luke 5: 1 - 11 Joseph O’Connor Coffey - A member of the Middle School Reader: This is the word of the Lord Response: Thanks be to God

Junior School Spirit of Peace

Words: Geoffrey Gardner Music: Douglas Coombes

The congregation stands

HYMN

Refrain: Hail thee, festival day!

Blest day when we honour St Dunstan; Beaconing out from the past, Light to illumine us now.

1. Strong and Alert make our minds, Keen instruments worthy their maker, Bodies attuned to our needs; Needs that are sanctioned by thee: [Refrain]

3. Take thou our youth and strength and temper them Both in thy service God handle all our joys Sanctify them to thy praise: [Refrain]

4. Praise be to thee threefold God, To Father Son and Spirit Thy praise our glorious theme Setting thy seal on our lives: [Refrain]

2. Poetry, Music and Art our minds, May we by these be exalted Grow to discern the divine Burning at all beauty’s core [Refrain]

The offering is presented The congregation sits

ADDRESS

The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark Chapel Choir Sing Joyfully Music: William Byrd Words: Psalm 81:1-4

PRAYERS At the end of each prayer the congregation responds: Amen

Ruby Robbins, Annika McIntosh, Maia Nino-French, Matthew Tearle

AN ACT OF SELF-DEDICATION The Headmaster O God, we thank you for the joy of education: for being enabled to share in the knowledge, wisdom and understanding of the ages; for the enriching of our lives through the creative worlds of art, music and literature; for the understanding and insights into your world, which science gives us, and for the skills to apply them.

Help us to use our learning as a way to help others by way of celebrating and employing the riches of your creation, of which we are a part.

Make us aware of our privilege and our responsibility.

Make us good stewards of the world you have set us in and of the gifts and opportunities we have been given.

May we use them, not in pursuit of selfish gain, but in the service of others, that we may play our part in establishing your kingdom of justice, peace and love for one another.

This we ask in the name of Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Amen

College Chaplain Let us in a moment of stillness remember before God all for whom we should pray.

Let us join together in an act of dedication and renew the offering of ourselves in the service of God, in the words of St Francis:

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Merciful God, make us to be instruments of your peace; Where there is hatred, may we bring love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is sadness, joy; Where there is darkness, light.

Grant that we may not seek so much To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love.

This we ask for the sake of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.

Amen

Let us unite our prayers in the words which our Lord himself taught us to pray: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.

Amen.

Finally let us pray for ourselves, the work of our school, of this cathedral and of the British Red Cross - Ukraine Crisis Appeal.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us all evermore.

Amen.

The congregation stands

HYMN 1. Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land.

I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy powerful hand.

Bread of Heaven, Bread of Heaven, Feed me till I want no more; Feed me till I want no more.

2. Open now the crystal fountain, Whence the healing stream doth flow; Let the fire and cloudy pillar Lead me all my journey through.

Strong Deliverer, Strong Deliverer, Be Thou still my Strength and Shield; Be Thou still my Strength and Shield.

3. When I tread the verge of Jordan, Bid my anxious fears subside; Death of death, and hell’s destruction, Land me safe on Canaan’s side.

Songs of praises, songs of praises, I will ever give to Thee; I will ever give to Thee.

Words: William Williams (1717 – 1791) Translated from Welsh by Peter Williams (1723 – 1796) Music: John Hughes (1873 – 1932)

THE BLESSING

The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn

ORGAN VOLUNTARY Nun Danket Alle Gott Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

HEADS OF ST DUNSTAN’S COLLEGE SINCE ITS FOUNDATION AT CATFORD IN 1888 C M STUART The Reverend Mr F G FORDER J F USHERWOOD W R HECKER R R PEDLEY B D DANCE J D MOORE D I DAVIES Mrs F L CORDEAUX Mrs J D DAVIES N P HEWLETT

1888 – 1922 1922 – 1930 1931 – 1938 1938 – 1967 1967 – 1973 1973 – 1993 1993 – 1997 1998 – 2004 2004 – 2005 2005 – 2014 2014

* We recall on this occasion our benefactor Sir John Moore.

Details of Gift: This was an annuity of £15 per annum, given by the will of Sir John Moore, for the benefit of the parish of St Dunstan- in-theEast; £10 thereof applicable to the purposes of educating the poor. The remaining £5 of this annuity is directed by the donor to be distributed as follows: - To the minister of the parish, for preaching a sermon on Good Friday, 30s.; to the parish clerk for his attendance 6s. 8d., to the sexton 3s. 4d., and the remaining £3 to be distributed annually, for the benefit of this parish, in bread, coals, clothes, or otherwise, at the discretion of the minister and gentlemen of the vestry.

Biography: Sir John Moore was one of the most renowned parishioners of Saint Dunstanin-the-East. Born in 1620 in Appleby in Leicestershire he was bound as an apprentice to the Grocers’ Company in 1647 and set up residence in Mincing Lane.

He was the most important lead merchant of his time in London, exporting lead from Derbyshire and Yorkshire through Hull to Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Following the destruction of the Grocer’s Hall in the Great Fire of 1666, Moore contributed most of the funds required for its rebuilding. In recognition of this a portrait of him was commissioned by the Company and is now in the possession of the National Portrait Gallery. Subsequently he became Master of the Grocers’ Company 1671-2, Lord Mayor 1681- 2, MP for London 1685, President of Christ’s Hospital 1686-7 and 1688-1702. He was a member of the East India Company Committee 1669-1701 and by 1689 was the second largest shareholder in the Company.

Moore was an influential figure in the Restoration of 1660. He is said to have brought over the City of London to the side of the King. His monument that stood in the church of St Dunstan stated that ‘for his great and exemplary loyalty to the Crown he was empowered by King Charles the Second to bear on a Canton one of the Lions of England as an augmentation of his arms.’ This monument was destroyed in the Blitz but Moore was also immortalised as the character Ziloah in Dryden’s poem about Kingship Absalom and Achitophel.

Moore was a generous benefactor and used some of his fortune to finance the building of a school next to his family estate in Appleby Parva. Based on an initial design by another parishioner of St Dunstan-in-the-East, Sir Christopher Wren, the school opened as free school for boys in 1697. It is now the Church of England Primary School for the village of Appleby. Moore also gave generously to Christ’s Hospital and to the Hospitals at Bridewell and Bethlem.

He died in 1702 with no children (his wife Mary Maddocks had died in 1690) and was buried in the church of Saint Dunstan-in-the-East. His large fortune passed to his nephews although an annuity was given by his will to the parish for the purposes of educating the poor.1 Notes: 1) Richard Grassby, ‘Moore, Sir John (bap.

1620, d. 1702)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/ view/article/19125, accessed 8 Aug 2006]

The Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Saviour and St Mary Overy, Southwark

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outhwark Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship for over 1000 years. Established as a small convent, it grew over the centuries into a priory, which became a parish church and then, in 1905, the Cathedral for the newly created Diocese of Southwark which serves the whole of London south of the river.

The Cathedral’s patchwork architecture bears testament to its past as do the many monuments and memorials inside and outside the church. These are reminders of the rich history of this part of London and our association with such major figures in our creative history, including Chaucer, Shakespeare and Dickens.

Southwark Cathedral is a place of worship, welcome and friendship, to rejoice in or find rest when you’re weary. We are London’s community Cathedral striving to live the example of Jesus, seeking to be a spiritual home for all and set at the heart of Bankside, buzzing with people and activity, a vibrant cultural and commercial destination.

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