Loan 96 RLF 3/8

Bound volume containing the annual and anniversary reports for 1849-1853 inclusive. From 1851 the two reports are fully integrated.

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 Corporation, Deceased', 'Chairmen of the Anniversaries' and 'Stewards of the Anniversaries'. 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, as well as details of the stewards of and donations made at the Anniversary dinners. Some materials are included several times.

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

1849 (total 130 pp.): Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations; 'Report of the Anniversary', 16 May 1849, with transcript of speeches (chair: Henry Hardinge, Viscount Hardinge; principal speakers: James Ingram; Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm; General Sir Charles William Pasley; John Russell; Richard Monckton Milnes; William Leslie Melville; Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer; John Finlaison; Charles Stewart Hardinge; George Rice Trevor; Serjeant Henry Alworth Merewether; Archibald Alison; Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley; James Whiteside; Kenneth Macaulay; William Makepeace Thackeray; George Cruikshank; Alfred Bate Richards; James Wyld; Colonel William Mure; William Cooke Taylor); Lists of 'Contributors of Poetical Addresses' and 'Musical Composers of Glees and Songs' for Anniversary Dinners

1850 (total 133 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 17 May 1850, with transcript of speeches (chair: Thomas Noon Talfourd; principal speakers: Henry Alford; Major Herbert Benjamin Edwardes; Charles Stewart Hardinge; William Tooke; George Payne Rainsford James; Sylvain Van de Weyer; Isaac Butt; Edmund Phipps; Robert Bell; William Forsyth; Major Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; [Henry Singer?] Keating; John Chandler Bancroft Davis; Sir John Davis; Frederic Carpenter Skey; Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley; Joseph Napier; Sir Thomas Phillips)

1851 (93 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 14 May 1851, with transcript of speeches (chair: Sylvain Van de Weyer; principal speakers: James S M Anderson; Sir John Kerle Haberfield; Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm; John Russell; (William) Bingham Baring, Baron Ashburton; Edward Chichester, Earl of Belfast (in French); Constantine Musurus, Turkish Ambassador to London; Edmund Phipps; Baron Charles Dupin; William Robert Grove; Charles Stewart Hardinge; Archibald Alison; Sir James Lewis Knight-Bruce; William Makepeace Thackeray; George Wingrove Cooke; Colonel Henry Creswicke Rawlinson; Sir Robert Buckley Comyn; Joseph Napier; Herman Merivale; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley; James Whiteside; Aaron Asher Goldsmid)

1852 (82 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 12 May 1852, with transcript of speeches (chair: John Campbell, Baron Campbell; principal speakers: Lord James Stuart; Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Pasley; John Russell; Thomas Noon Talfourd; Richard Monckton Milnes; Edward Shepherd Creasy; James Whiteside; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley; William Frederick Campbell; William Makepeace Thackeray; Mr Skinner; Robert Pashley; Sir Alexander Cockburn; Lieutenant Colonel Henry Robert Addison; Abbott Lawrence; Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen; Peter Mark Roget; Henry Alford; Charles Baldwin)

1853 (82 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 11 May 1853, with transcript of speeches (chair: Benjamin Disraeli; principal speakers: The Bishop of Ohio; John Russell; Richard Monckton Milnes; Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley; Edward Shepherd Creasy; William Digby Seymour; Lord John Manners; Thomas Chandler Haliburton)