Loan 96 RLF 3/17

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1897-1902 inclusive. The first report is prefixed with a copy of the Charter, Laws, Bye-Laws and Regulations, dated 1897 (16 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 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:

1897 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 May 1897, with transcript of speeches (chair: Joseph Lister, Baron Lister; principal speakers: George Forrest Browne, Bishop of Stepney; Henry Duff Traill; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe)

1898 (110 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 17 May 1898, with transcript of speeches (chair: Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of Devonshire; principal speakers: Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe; Dodgson Hamilton Madden; John Milton Hay, the American Ambassador)

1899 (114 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 20 Apr 1899, with transcript of speeches (chair: Sir George Otto Trevelyan; principal speakers: Sir James Stirling; Henry Montagu Butler; Joseph Hodges Choate, the American Ambassador; Edmund Gosse; William Edward Hartpole Lecky)

1900 (112 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1900, with transcript of speeches (chair: Charles Arthur Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen; principal speakers: Edward Henry Pember; Anthony Hope Hawkins; Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain); Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe)

1901 (108 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 27 May 1901, with transcript of speeches (chair: Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury; principal speakers: Gilbert Parker; Sir James Willcocks; William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; Sir William Reynell Anson; Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe)

1902 (106 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1902, with transcript of speeches (chair: George Joachim Goschen, Viscount Goschen; principal speakers: David Binning Monro; Alfred Ainger; Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, Earl of Crewe)