Loan 96 RLF 3/14

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1878-1882 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:

1878 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 28 May 1878, with transcript of speeches (chair: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; principal speakers: General Sir William John Codrington; Joshua Williams; Lord Arthur Charles Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells; Edward Fry; Frederic William Farrer; General Sir John Bisset; Henry Morton Stanley; Thomas O'Hagan, Baron O'Hagan)

1879 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 6 May 1879, with transcript of speeches (chair: Hugh McCalmont Cairns, Earl Cairns; principal speakers: Alexander Burns Shand; General G A Schomberg; Admiral Sir John Dalrymple Hay; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Baron de Bulow, the Danish Ambassador; Canon James Fleming; Edward Dicey; John Welsh, the United States Minister; William Spottiswoode)

1880 (118 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 May 1880, with transcript of speeches (chair: John Everett Millais; principal speakers: Sir William Milbourne James; General Sir William John Codrington; Samuel Cheetham; Archibald Henry Sayce; Tom Taylor; Sir George Bowyer; Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby)

1881 (112 pp.): Text of Address altered; 'Report of the Anniversary', 4 May 1881, with transcript of speeches (chair: James Russell Lowell; principal speakers: Sir Farrer Herschell; Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley; Admiral Sir John Dalrymple Hay; Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster; Henry William John Byng, Viscount Enfield; Charles Parker Butt; John Duke Coleridge, Baron Coleridge; Justin McCarthy; Henry Wace; Sir Richard Temple; John William Maule Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie; Sir Frederic Leighton; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Reginald Charles Edward Abbot, Baron Colchester; Leslie Stephen)

1882 (104 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 3 May 1882, with transcript of speeches (chair: Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury; principal speakers: Sir John Whittaker Ellis, Lord Mayor of London; Alan Plantagenet Stewart, Earl of Galloway; Lord Eustace Cecil; Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl; Sir Thomas Erskine May; Arthur Philip Stanhope, Earl Stanhope; Henry Lansdell; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Sir John Hawkshaw; George William Barrington, Viscount Barrington; Canon Rowsell; Sir Samuel Wilson)