05 May 2019 - Commemoration of Benefactors
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Sunday, 5 May 2019
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Each year a service is held in Easter Term to commemorate the benefactors of St John’s College.
The Catalogue of Benefactors, which is read out during the service, features some notable figures - St John Fisher, William Gaskell (an 'opium agent'), Thomas Baker (an 'ejected Fellow’), and the College foundress, Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.
The commitment, projection and natural energy of this choir have never failed to inspire me