| The sale of the papers of the Revd Henry Moule former vicar of Damerham were sold at auction on 14 November 2024 and with the emergency grant of £320 from HAT they were purchased by Hampshire Record Office (after confirming no other Hampshire, Wiltshire or Dorset archives organisations were to bid)
Henry Moule’s 15 volumes of diaries, letters, photographs and ephemera are not yet catalogued but we know he was vicar of Damerham from 1922 to 1948, when he retired. The parish is on the edge of the New Forest, formerly in Wilts now in Hants, and Hampshire Archives holds the parish records (though the parish is in Salisbury Diocese). Moule looks an interesting figure (he had previously done missionary work in China), and the diaries and notes seem to include some interesting detail from the Second World War. He was a grandson of Henry Moule, clergyman and inventor of the dry earth toilet, and nephew of Thomas Hardy’s friend, watercolourist, Henry Joseph Moule. His father George Evans Moule was also a clergyman, mainly in China. |
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