Loan 96 RLF 3/15

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1883-1889 inclusive. The first report is prefixed with a copy of the Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations, dated 1870 (13 pp.), with an additional note inserted.

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 Registrars' 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:

1883 (106 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1883, with transcript of speeches (chair: General Garnet Joseph Wolseley; principal speakers: George Stovin Venables; James Augustus Cotter Morison; Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, Baron Thurlow; James Russell Lowell; Thomas Teignmouth Shore; Hormuzd Rassam; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby)

1884 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 21 May 1884, with transcript of speeches (chair: William Henry Waddington, the French Ambassador; principal speakers: Arthur Charles Hervey, Bishop of Bath and Wells; John Robert Seeley; Alexander James Beresford Beresford Hope; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joseph William Chitty; Sir Richard Temple; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby)

1885 (110 pp.): New Secretary, Arthur Llewelyn Roberts, appointed after the death of Octavian Blewitt; 'Report of the Anniversary', 6 May 1885, with transcript of speeches (chair: Lord John Manners; principal speakers: Frederick Andrew Inderwick; Colonel Charles Edmund Towry-Law, Baron Ellenborough; George Stovin Venables; John Wesley Hales; Sir Frederick Pollock; Edwin Ray Lankester; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Justin McCarthy)

1886 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 May 1886, with transcript of speeches (chair: Stafford Henry Northcote, Earl of Iddesleigh; principal speakers: Sir Horace Davey; General Sir Donald Martin Stewart; Frank Lockwood; Samuel Henry Butcher; Edmund Gosse; Colonel Sir Charles William Wilson; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Colonel Sir Charles Warren)

1887 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 4 May 1887, with transcript of speeches (chair: Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton; principal speakers: Sir Edward George Clarke; John Pentland Mahaffy; Louis John Jennings; Edmund Hodgson Yates; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Charles Philip Yorke, Earl of Hardwicke)

1888 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1888, with transcript of speeches (chair: Sir James Paget; principal speakers: Sir Albert Kaye Rollit; William Edward Hartpole Lecky; Robert J Griffiths; Francis Darwin; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; John Evans)

1889 (104 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 15 May 1889, with transcript of speeches (chair: Nathaniel Mayer de Rothschild, Baron Rothschild; principal speakers: Hermann Adler; John Stuart Blackie; Sir Alfred Lyall; Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; The Greek Minister to London)