Loan 96 RLF 3/19

Bound volume containing the annual reports for 1909-1914 inclusive.

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:

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)

1910 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 Apr 1910, with transcript of speeches (chair: Anthony Hope Hawkins; principal speakers: Sir George Houstoun Reid; Henry Newbolt; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1911 (66 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 18 May 1911, with transcript of speeches (chair: Augustine Birrell; principal speakers: Lord Ignatius John O’Brien; Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch; Owen Seaman)

1912 (74 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 16 May 1912, with transcript of speeches (chair: Owen Seaman; principal speakers: Arthur James Balfour; Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh; Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson)

1913 (80 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 27 May 1913, with transcript of speeches (chair: George Nathaniel Curzon, the Earl Curzon of Kedleston; principal speakers: Herbert Hensley Henson, Dean of Durham; John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn; Victor Alexander George Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Earl of Lytton)

1914 (70 pp.): 'Report of the Anniversary', 5 May 1914, with transcript of speeches (chair: Walter Hines Page, the American Ambassador; principal speakers: John Andrew Hamilton, Baron Sumner; Violet Rosa Markham; Gilbert Keith Chesterton; John Charles Bigham, Baron Mersey)