Loan 96 RLF 3/18

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1903-1909 inclusive. The 1909 report is also included in the next volume (XIX).

The documents for each year contain a 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:

1903 (78 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 24 Apr 1903, with transcript of speeches (chair: Lieutenant-General Sir Ian Hamilton; principal speakers: John Charles Bigham; General Sir Arthur Power Palmer; William Rann Kennedy; Major Martin Andrew Sharp Hume; William Thomson, Baron Kelvin)

1904 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 9 May 1904, with transcript of speeches (chair: James Matthew Barrie; principal speakers: Joseph William Comyns Carr; Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes); Alfred Edward Woodley Mason; Flora Annie Steel; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1905 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 18 May 1905, with transcript of speeches (chair: Henry Montagu Butler; principal speakers: Charles John Darling; John Murray; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1906 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 10 May 1906, with transcript of speeches (chair: Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador; principal speakers: George Forrest Browne, Bishop of Bristol; Sidney Lee; Joseph Charles Parkinson; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1907 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 1 May 1907, with transcript of speeches (chair: William Boyd Carpenter, Bishop of Ripon; principal speakers: Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Earl of Halsbury; Thomas Herbert Warren; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1908 (70 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 21 May 1908, with transcript of speeches (chair: Rudyard Kipling; principal speakers: Henry Wace, Dean of Canterbury; William Leonard Courtney; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1909 (70 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 2 May 1909, with transcript of speeches (chair: Andrew Lang; principal speakers: Sir Edward George Clarke; Maurice Hewlett; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)