Loan 96 RLF 3/13

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1873-1877 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:

1873 (120 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 28 May 1873, with transcript of speeches (chair: William Ewart Gladstone; principal speakers: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; John Walter; Philip Henry Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; William Alexander, Bishop of Derry; John Lothrop Motley; Joseph Williams Blakesley, Dean of Lincoln; Tom Taylor)

1874 (118 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 6 May 1874, with transcript of speeches (chair: John Duke Coleridge, Baron Coleridge; principal speakers: Sir George Mellish; Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan; Sir Richard Baggallay; Sir Charles Hall; Sir Archibald Alison; John Hawley Glover; Sir Barnes Peacock; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Sir James Hannen)

1875 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 26 May 1875, with transcript of speeches (chair: Chichester Samuel Parkinson-Fortescue, Baron Carlingford; principal speakers: Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador; Sir Richard Malins; Henry Edward John Stanley, Baron Stanley of Alderley; Sir George Bowyer; Reginald Charles Edward Abbot, Baron Colchester; John Stoughton; Thomas Brassey; Sir George Bowen; William Smith)

1876 (118 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 3 May 1876, with transcript of speeches (chair: Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, Earl of Carnarvon; principal speakers: Baron Hochschild, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister; Richard Monckton Milnes, Baron Houghton; General William Rose Mansfield, Baron Sandhurst; Captain B W Bax; Samuel Cheetham; Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan; George Joachim Goschen; Sir Stafford Northcote; William Cotton, Lord Mayor of London; Sir Hardinge Stanley Giffard; Donald MacLeod; Sir Henry Rawlinson; Verney Lovett Cameron; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope)

1877 (118 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 9 May 1877, with transcript of speeches (chair: Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; principal speakers: John Somerset Pakington, Baron Hampton; General Sir William John Codrington; Admiral Sir John Hay; Count Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador; Charles Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Frederic Ouvry; Hunter Rodwell; William Edward Hartpole Lecky; Henry Reeve; Kuo-ta-Jen, the Chinese Minister (interpreted by Samuel Halliday Macartney); James Talbot, Baron Talbot de Malahide; Heinrich Schliemann; Sir William Stirling-Maxwell)