Loan 96 RLF 3/11

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1863-1867 inclusive. The first report is prefixed with a copy of the Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations, dated 1856 (13 pp.).

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' and 'Chairmen of the Anniversaries.' For each year there are also Auditors' reports, Treasurers' reports and a Secretary's report 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.

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

1863 (90 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 13 May 1863, with transcript of speeches (chair: Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; principal speakers: Lord Claud Hamilton; Richard Monckton Milnes; Sir Charles Lyell; James Wellwood Moncreiff; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; William Rose, Lord Mayor of London; Richard Owen; William Nathaniel Massey; Charles Merivale; Anthony Trollope)

1864 (98 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 18 May 1864, with transcript of speeches (chair: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; principal speakers: James Brownlow William Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury; Edward Cardwell; Marcus Gervais Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh; Prince George, Duke of Cambridge; Sir Alexander Milne; Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; John Russell, Earl Russell; Anthony Trollope; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; Sylvain Van de Weyer)

1865 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 10 May 1865, with transcript of speeches (chair: William Thomson, Archbishop of York; principal speakers: Dudley Fortescue; Samuel Waldegrave, Bishop of Carlisle; Ulick John de Burgh, Marquess of Clanricarde; George Joachim Goschen; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; George Biddell Airy; George Gilbert Scott; Edward Hayes Plumptre; David Livingstone; Ármin Vámbéry (or Arminius Vámbéry); Alexander Michie)

1866 (112 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1866, with transcript of speeches (chair: Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; principal speakers: Sir Willoughby Jones; Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David’s; General Vincent Eyre; Captain Stewart Forbes; George Stovin Venables; Charles Kingsley; Algernon Charles Swinburne; Henry Fawcett; Robert Whiston; John Tyndall; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury; Judge Manockjee Cursetjee; Anthony Trollope; William Wentworth Fitzwilliam, Viscount Milton; Sir Samuel Baker; Sir John Simeon; Frederick Leighton)

1867 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 15 May 1867, with transcript of speeches (chair: Henry Hart Milman, Dean of St Paul’s; principal speakers: Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury; Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; Sir Robert Phillimore; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Sir Francis Doyle; Anthony Trollope; Edward Dicey; Sir Francis Grant; Sir John Simeon; William Smith; William Fairbairn; John Morley; Sir John Francis Davis)