23 DECEMBER 1949, Page 18

Canterbury or York ?

Sic —Surely your reviewer has slipped up in his comments on Dean Inge's Diary in attributing the remark about clerical moustaches to George V. It was made, I think, by Edward VII, of whom it is much more charac- teristic. I fancy the Archbishop was appointed to York in 1908 at the

jOur reviewer writes: 'The remark in question was made at a dinner at Lambeth (not Bishopsthorpe) and the natural assumption is that the !reference was to the Archbishop's appointment to Canterbury in 19281.