Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XVI

Edward Heron-Allen, Archaeology and Local History

• Edited by Timothy J. McCann and John E. Whittaker

January

Pam Thompson will be giving a talk on January 30 at 18.30 for Birkbeck College Music Society. The talk is entitled: 'Edward Heron-Allen, polymath or dilettante: violins, palmistry, fossils and notoriety'.

March

The annual Heron-Allen Lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, will be held on Friday 6 March …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 27 (Autumn 2015)

• Juliet Field, Fifteenth Annual Symposium
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'The Sir Vincent Horsley and Edward Heron-Allen Discussions. Something is Rotten in the state of Palmistry'
• Garry Garrard, 'A Centenary Contribution'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'The Death of Marianna Heron-Allen'
• John E …

15th Annual Symposium 2015

"Edward Heron-Allen: Research in Egypt, La Rochelle and Sussex"

11.00am
Saturday, 27th June, 2015

The Minerology Seminar Room,
The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road,
London

Edward Heron-Allen on board Rameses in Egypt

Details

The Minerology Seminar Room is in the basement of the Natural History …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 26 (Spring 2015)

• Fifteenth Annual Symposium
• David Field, 'The Heron-Allen Lecture, 2015'
• David Thompson, '4th International Symposium, Venice and Verona, September 2014'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'May Burnett, Edward Heron-Allen and a Silver Christening Mug'
• David Thompson, 'The Heron-Allen Tankard'
• Ruth Mariner, 'The Men behind the Mammoth' …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XV

The Man in White': Edward Heron-Allen and the Thames

• Richard Bossons

January

The 2013 edition of Sussex Archaeological Collections, being volume 151, included an article: "Heron-Allen and the 'Saxon feet' from Selsey" by David Bone on pp.187-192.

Bowden, A. J., Gregory, F. J. & Henderson, A. S. (eds), 2013. Landmarks in Foraminiferal Micropalaeontology: History and Development. The Micropalaeontologial Society. Special Publications …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 25 (Autumn 2014)

• Fourteenth Annual Symposium
• Sylvia Blunden,'Heron-Allen Society week-end in Woodbridge, May 2014'
• John P. and Barbara P. Mahoney,'Lost Anectodes: Edward Heron-Allen's Yarns in the Royal College of Music Library'
• John P. and Barbara P. Mahoney,'Le Galienne versus Heron-Allen incident, Postscript 3' …

14th Annual Symposium 2014

"Edward Heron-Allen: Selsey and Beyond"

14.00pm
Saturday, 28th June, 2014

The Novium,
Tower Street,
Chichester

The 'Selsey Feet'

Details

The Novium is the Chichester Museum situated in Tower Street.

Will those wishing to attend the Symposium please contact the Honorary Secretary, Juliet Field, at 40 …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 24 (Spring 2014)

• Fourteenth Annual Symposium
• Juliet Field, 'Heron-Allen 70th Anniversary Conference 2014, Saturday 8 March 10am-3,30pm at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford'
• Garry Garrard, 'The Edward Heron-Allen Collection of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam at the London Library'
• Ivor E. Jones, 'An early enigma'
• John …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XIV

Edward Heron-Allen and the Clare Island Survey, 1909-1911

• Edited by Timothy J. McCann and John E. Whittaker

January

The Society's Opusculum No.XVIII was published entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Violin' edited by Peter Horton. The Opusculum featured articles, including 'Edward Heron-Allen's Visit to Downside, 1886' by Timothy J. McCann' 'Edward Heron-Allen as a Music Critic', by Peter Horton and 'The Resurrection of the Edward Heron-Allen Violin …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 23 (Autumn 2013)

• Pamela Thompson, 'Thirteenth Annual Symposium: Edward Heron-Allen and his collections'
• Gerald Blunden, 'Proceeding of the Third International Heron-Allen Society Meeting held in Corsica (May 19th-26th, 2013)'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen, Magda Heinemann and the Heinemann divorce case'
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara …

13th Annual Symposium 2013

"Edward Heron-Allen and his Collections"

10.15am
Saturday, 29th June, 2013

Sackler Room,
British Museum,
London

The remains of a Mammoth found on the beach at Selsey Bill

Details

The Sackler Rooms are in the basement of the British Museum. When you enter the Great Court …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 22 (Spring 2013)

• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'An appendix with a tale to it: "How we died"'
• Joan Navarre, 'Edward Heron-Allen in America: rare documents at Harvard University'
• Chuck Backus, 'Edward Heron-Allen: circus rider'
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'Postscript: the …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XIII

Edward Heron-Allen on Literature and Leisure; Proceedings of the 9th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2009

March

Professor Christopher Dobson FRS, Master of St. John's College Cambridge and Honorary Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, delivered the annual Heron-Allen Lecture: "New Approaches to Understanding and Preventing Neurodegenerative Diseases", at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at 5.15 p.m. on Friday 2 March 2012.

May

The Society's Newsletter No …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 21 (Autumn 2012)

• Juliet Field, 'Twelfth Annual Symposium'
• P.J.E. Kershaw, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Scholar's Stone'
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'A Genealogical Tour of Selina Simmonds Belasco Dolaro (1849-1889)'
• Joan Navarre, 'Mystery solved - Selina Dolaro's final Resting Place'
• John E. Whittaker …

12th Annual Symposium 2012

"Edward Heron-Allen and some Women of his Acquaintance"

10.00am
Saturday, 30th June, 2012

Allen Room,
Dean Street,
London

Selina Dolaro

Details

The Allen Room is on the first floor of the building next door to St. Anne's Church and is best reached from Dean Street …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 20 (Spring 2012)

• Francis Beretti, 'Unseen Corsica, by EH-A (1921)'
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'With the Plethera of Heron-Allen Pseudonyms, did the persona of Flavian Heron-Allen really exist?'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Jessica Alice Palmer Bequests'

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XII

Treasures: Decorative, Egyptian and Musical: More from Heron-Allen's Collections. Proceedings of the 8th. Heron-Allen Symposium, 2008

January

Joan Navarre's paper, 'Oscar Wilde, Edward Heron-Allen, and the Palmistry Craze of the 1880s' was published in English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol.54, no.2 (2011) 174-84.

The Chairman gave a talk entitled, 'The Singular Life of Edward Heron-Allen' to the Chichester Science Group, at the New Fishbourne …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 19 (Autumn 2011)

• Peter Horton, 'The Eleventh Annual Symposium at the Royal College of Music'
• Bill Coleby, 'The Eleventh Annual Symposium: The Australian Connection'
• Alison McCann, 'The Heron-Allen Society Visit to Clare Island, 14-16 August 2011'
• Aine Ryan,'A Pilgrimage to Clare Island'
• John E. Whittaker …

11th Annual Symposium 2011

"Edward Heron-Allen and Music"

10.15am
Saturday, 25th June, 2011

Donaldson Room,
Royal College of Music,
Prince Consort Road
London

Diagram from "Violin-Making, as it was and is" by Edward Heron-Allen

Details

Coffee will be available from 10.15am.

For the Royal College of Music take …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 18 (Spring 2011)

• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'The Plausibility of Edward Heron-Allen's Duelling Affair'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'Flappers, British Empire Leaguers and Foraminiferists on Clare Island, 1911'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen, Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death'
• John P.Mahoney and …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum XI

Armorel Heron-Allen and Oxford Proceedings of the 7th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2007

• Edited by Timothy J. McCann

January

On 4 January Professor Malcolm B. Hart delivered a lecture entitled, 'Foraminifera of Plymouth Sound: The legacy of Edward Heron-Allen 70 years on', to the Ussher Society 48th annual conference at Plymouth in Devon.

The Society's Newsletter no.15 was published and distributed. Articles include 'The Ninth Annual Symposium' …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 17 (Autumn 2010)

• Juliet Field, 'The Tenth Annual Symposium, 2010'
• Edward Heron-Allen, 'The Inexorable Law: Cataclysm the Second'
• John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney, 'An oscure Week in the Life of a Man who saved (almost) Everything'

10th Annual Symposium 2010

"Edward Heron-Allen, Archaeology and Local History"

11.00am
Saturday, 3rd July, 2010

West Sussex Record Office
Chichester, West Sussex
PO19 1RN

The Mound at Church Norton in Selsey

Details

Transport Details and map

There are direct trains to Chichester from Victoria Station in London, from Gatwick …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 16 (Spring 2010)

• Juliet Field, 'The Heron-Allen Memorial Lecture, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 5 March 2010'
• Ivor Jones, 'The first ten Years'
• Edward Heron-Allen, 'The Inexorable Law'
• Malcolm Hart, 'Foraminifera of Plymouth Sound: The Legacy of Edward Heron-Allen 80 Years on'
• Ivor Jones and John E …

Can anyone pronounce or identify TRTHWWSTHPLLGG in Cornwall mentioned in Princess Daphne? (Eric Trevanion's house) and does it mean anything?

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Heron-Allen portrait

The painter of the portrait of Edward Heron-Allen that Ivor Jones has kindly allowed us to reproduce is unknown. All that is known about the portrait is that it was exhibited at the Paris Exhibition in 1927. The Society is anxious to identify the artist and any suggestions …

Request for help:

A colleague has recently bought a letter to EH-A from Gilbert James, the well-known book illustrator. In it, James offers to sell the originals of his pictures for the 1907 Foulis edition of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Does anyone recall hearing anything about those pictures or …

Edward Heron-Allen and Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust Bequests

One of the long-standing queries on the website of the Heron-Allen Society is a request for information about Jessie Alice Palmer and the Jessie Alice Palmer Charitable Trust bequests. The query arose from the discovery of a report in The Times …

In his War Diary, Heron-Allen wrote on 9 February 1919: "I sent my 'squib' on the 'sitting face' to Arthur Humphreys, the literary bookseller of 'Hatchards', who accepted it at once for his delightful magazine 'Books of Today' and asked me to add a paragraph to fill a page. I …

Portrait of Heron-Allen by R.B. Ogle
(Click on the photo for detail)

Edward Heron-Allen and the scholar's stone

The rediscovery by Mr. Clive Jones of Richard Bertram Ogle's portrait of Edward Heron-Allen was doubtless welcomed warmly by members of this society. Discoveries, however, have an annoying habit of generating …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum X

The Purple Sapphire

• By Edward Heron-Allen

March

The Annual Heron-Allen Lecture was held in Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford on Friday 6 March 2009 at 5.15, preceded by a reception in The Old Library.

The lecture was delivered by Professor E J Milner-Gulland, Professor in Conservation Science, Imperial College London. Professor Milner-Gulland will speak …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 15 (Autumn 2009)

• 'The Ninth Annual Symposium'
• Alison McCann, 'Joint Meeting with the Royal Irish Academy'
• Garry Garrard, 'Edward Heron-Allen's Persian Publications'
• Ivor Jones, 'Pedigrees of Heron-Allen and the Peplers'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'A Beachcomber in Sussex'

9th Annual Symposium 2009

"Edward Heron-Allen and Literature"

11.00am
Saturday, 4th July, 2009

Natural History Museum
Palaeontology Demonstration Room
(The Dorothea Bate Room)
Cromwell Road
London

The first edition of EHA's translation of the Rubaiyat

Details

Meet at the Visitors Reception, on the left, inside the main entrance to …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 14 (Spring 2009)

• Timothy J. McCann, 'The Heron-Allen Collection at West Sussex Record Office, Chichester'
• Joan Navarre, 'A Birthday Party. Drawing-Room Duologue by Edward Heron-Allen'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'A Fatal Fiddle: Edward Heron-Allen and Cricket'
• Obituaries of Dominic Wood, Saxon Jones and Alethea Pitt

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum IX

Edward Heron-Allen and Music Proceedings of the 6th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2006

• Edited by Peter Horton

March

The Annual Heron-Allen lecture was held on Friday March 10th at Talbot Hall, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Dr Neil M Ferguson OBE, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College, London spoke on "Planning for the unpredictable: how modelling can aid preparations for the next flu pandemic".

A Catalogue of …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 13 (Autumn 2008)

• Nichola Court, 'The Eighth Annual Symposium'
• John and Barbara Mahoney, 'A Fatal Kiss of the Princess: Who did Marmaduke Scott marry?'
• Joan Navarre, 'Edward Heron-Allen in the Spotlight'
• The Editor, 'Edward Heron-Allen in the Sale Rooms'
• Garry Garrard, 'Edward Heron-Allen and Edward Fitzgerald' …

8th Annual Symposium 2008

"Treasures: Decorative, Egyptian and Musical: More from Heron-Allen's Collections"

11.00am
Saturday, 5th July, 2008

Natural History Museum
Palaeontology Demonstration Room
(The Dorothea Bate Room)
and Heron-Allen Library
Cromwell Road
London

Edward Heron-Allen's "Purple Sapphire"

Details

Meet at the Visitors Reception, on the left, inside the …

Official opening of the new Heron-Allen Library door
8th Annual Symposium
5th July, 2008
Natural History Museum
London

The Natural History Museum houses the scientific library of Edward Heron-Allen. It is probably the finest and most comprehensive holding of literature on the Foraminifera in the world. It was for his …

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 12 (Spring 2008)

• Samuel F.J. Jones, 'Opening the Vault'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'Constance Mary Foy and Edward Heron-Allen: A Cheiromantic Friendship'
• Joan Navarre, 'Edward Heron-Allen in America: A rare photograph by Napoleon Sarony'
• Timothy J. McCann, 'A Photograph of Edward Heron-Allen at the Royal Society' …

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum VIII

Edward Heron-Allen and Friends Proceedings of the 5th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2005

• Edited by Timothy J. McCann

February

The original door to Edward Heron-Allen's library at Large Acres in Selsey has been presented to the Society by the Pledger family. The door has been taken to the Natural History Museum, London and it is hoped that it will be re-erected as the door to the Heron-Allen Library …

28 November 2007
Natural History Museum
London

Murder, suicide, bankruptcy and ruin have all been associated with Heron-Allen's amethyst. Known as the Purple Sapphire, Heron-Allen's amethyst was "cursed and stained with blood" according to Edward Heron-Allen who, himself worked at Natural History Museum as a researcher in the early 20th …