Loan 96 RLF 3/7

Bound volume containing the annual and anniversary reports for 1845-1848 inclusive.

The documents for each year contain an Address to the Anniversary (detailing the aims and history of the Fund), a list of the officers of the corporation (Patron, President, Vice-Presidents, Council, Committee, Registrars, Treasurers, Auditors, honorary officers, Bankers, Secretary and Collector), and lists of Members of the Corporation with details of their donations, Donors and Subscribers not yet qualified as members, miscellaneous benefactions, 'Deceased Benefactors of Twenty Pounds and Upwards', 'Officers of the Society, Deceased', 'Noblemen and Gentlemen who have taken the Chair at Anniversary Dinners', 'Stewards of the Anniversaries', 'Contributors of Poetical Addresses' and 'Musical Composers of Glees and Songs' for Anniversary Dinners. For each year there are also Auditors' reports and Secretary's reports for the previous year and an updated table of grants made in previous years. Some materials are included several times within a single year's reporting.

For each year, there are also varying records of the Anniversary Dinner and other additional contents as described below:

1845 (total 116 pp.): Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations, with Index; 'Report of the Anniversary', 14 May 1845, with transcript of speeches (chair: Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough; principal speakers: Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin; Admiral Charles Abbot, Baron Colchester; General Charles William Pasley; John Russell; Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen; Richard Monckton Milnes; Henry Peter Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux; Philip Henry Stanhope, Lord Mahon; Roderick Impey Murchison; Baron Leopold von Buch; Thomas Noon Talfourd; George Payne Rainsford James; John Kemble; John Walter; Sir John Page Wood), with details of stewards, attendees and donations received

1846 (total 132 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 13 May 1846 with transcript of speeches (chair: John Kaye, Lord Bishop of Lincoln; principal speakers: Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff; John Russell; Sir Robert Inglis; John Walter; Charles Thomas Longley, Bishop of Ripon; Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen; Henry Hallam; Henry Edward Manning, Archdeacon of Chichester; Dr William Buckland, Dean of Westminster; Thomas Noon Talfourd; Robert Browning; Lord Dudley Coutts Stuart), with details of stewards, attendees and donations received

1847 (total 133 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 12 May 1847 with transcript of speeches (chair: Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen; principal speakers: Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin; Lieutenant James Holman; George Robert Gleig; John Kaye, Lord Bishop of Lincoln; Sir Robert Inglis; Henry Granville Fitzalan-Howard, Earl of Arundel and Surrey; Sir Stratford Canning, Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David’s; William Whewell; Dudley Ryder, Viscount Sandon; George Payne Rainsford James; George Bancroft; Archdeacon William Hale Hale), with details of stewards, attendees and donations received

1848 (total 160 pp.): Special report on reforming the administration of the Fund, previously illegally constituted, and on the clarifying of the roles of the Council and General Committee; Copy of the revised Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations; heavily revised Address to the Anniversary; 'Report of the Anniversary', 10 May 1848 with transcript of speeches (chair: Algernon Percy, Duke of Northumberland; principal speakers: Richard Whately, Archbishop of Dublin; Sir John Rolt; Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm; John Russell; George Payne Rainsford James; Henry Hallam; Baron Parke; John Campbell, Baron Campbell; John Leycester Adolphus; William Makepeace Thackeray; Albert Smith; George William Lovell; Sir Augustus Clifford; Charles Edward Lester; Archdeacon Thomas Robinson; Eliot Warburton; Serjeant Henry Alworth Merewether; Hugh Fortescue, Viscount Ebrington)