Loan 96 RLF 3/12

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1868-1872 inclusive. The first report is prefixed with a copy of the Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations, dated 1870 (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:

1868 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 13 May 1868, with transcript of speeches (chair: Benjamin Disraeli; principal speakers: Frederick Lygon, Earl Beauchamp; Thomas Legh Claughton, Bishop of Rochester; Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; Sir Stafford Henry Northcote; George Stovin Venables; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; Lord Chief Justice William Bovill; Henry Thomas Liddell, Baron Ravensworth; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Sir Jospeh Napier; Sir William Hutt)

1869 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 May 1869, with transcript of speeches (chair: Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley; principal speakers: Wilbraham Egerton; Field Marshall Sir John Burgoyne; Captain Sherard Osborn; Stratford Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe; Reverdy Johnson; Sir George Markham Giffard; Anthony Trollope; Reginald Charles Edward Abbot, Baron Colchester; James Samuelson; Sir John Simeon; Sir William Stirling Maxwell; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; John Stuart Blackie)

1870 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 11 May 1870, with transcript of speeches (chair: Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Clandeboye; principal speakers: Sir Thomas Erskine May; Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle; Cavaliere Cadorna, Italian Minister (in French); Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan; General Sir William John Codrington; General Sir William Mansfield; Edward Backhouse Eastwick; The Nawab Nazim of Bengal; Evelyn Ashley; John Frederic Bateman; Sir Digby Wyatt; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; John Stuart Blackie; Tom Taylor)

1871 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 17 May 1871, with transcript of speeches (chair: Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester; principal speakers: Lord Claud Hamilton; William Charles Lake, Dean of Durham; Wren Hoskyns; Anthony Trollope; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Louis-François-Michel-Reymond Wolowski (in French); Reginald Abbot, Baron Colchester; John MacGregor; Sir Henry Anderson; Benjamin Richardson; Sir William Stirling Maxwell)

1872 (125 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 8 May 1872, with transcript of speeches (chair: Leopold II, King of the Belgians; principal speakers: Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh; Prince George, Duke of Cambridge; Captain Sherard Osborn; William Coutts Keppel, Viscount Bury; Edward Cardwell; Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador; Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; Benjamin Disraeli; Henry Edward Manning, Archbishop of Westminster; Sir William Stirling Maxwell; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn; William Thomson, Archbishop of York; Harry George Powlett, Duke of Cleveland)