Loan 96 RLF 3/16

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1890-1896 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 tables of the value of the prescriptions made by the Honorary Physician and 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:

1890 (118 pp.): 'Report of the Centenary', 14 May 1890, with transcript of speeches (chair: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales; principal speakers: Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby; Prince George, Duke of Cambridge; William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; John Morley)

1891 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 6 May 1891, with transcript of speeches (chair: Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Baron Halsbury; principal speakers: Sir Francis Henry Jeune; Sir Edwin Arnold; Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, Baron Thurlow)

1892 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 11 May 1892, with transcript of speeches (chair: William Edward Hartpole Lecky; principal speakers: Walter William Skeat; Lewis Campbell; Ralph Copeland; James Dewar; Lord Alexander Smith Kinnear)

1893 (112 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 26 Apr 1893, with transcript of speeches (chair: Arthur James Balfour; principal speakers: William Thomson, Baron Kelvin; Vice-Admiral Philip Howard Colomb; Field Marshal Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons; Robert Bannatyne Finlay; Richard Claverhouse Jebb; Sir John Evans)

1894 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 25 Apr 1894, with transcript of speeches (chair: General Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl Roberts; principal speakers: Thomas Francis Bayard, the United States Ambassador; William John Courthope; William Edward Hartpole Lecky)

1895 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 8 May 1895, with transcript of speeches (chair: Prince George, Duke of York; principal speakers: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Baron Houghton; Wilbraham Egerton, Baron Egerton of Tatton; Rear-Admiral Argentine Hugh Alington; General Sir Archibald Alison; George Wyndham; William Samuel Lilly)

1896 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 6 May 1896, with transcript of speeches (chair: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe; principal speakers: George Charles Brodrick; Mandell Creighton, Bishop of Peterborough; Francis Edward Younghusband; Henry Craik)