Articles by Heron-Allen Society

Newsletter No. 11 (Autumn 2007)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 11 (Autumn 2007)

Newsletter No.11

  • Peter William Edward (Bill) Coleby, 'Seventh Annual Symposium: An Australian Impression'
  • Claude Héroys, 'Hélène Héroys (alias H. Du Coudray alias M.W. Waring), 1906-1971'
  • Phillipa Boston, 'Dr. Strode, Veronica Gotch and Heron-Allen's Guarnerius Violin'
  • Venetia Jones, 'Reflections of Venice, & Extracts from EH-A's Holiday …

7th Annual Symposium 2007

7th Annual Symposium 2007

"The Heron-Allens and Oxford"

11.00am
Saturday, 7th July, 2007

Lady Margaret Hall
Talbot Hall
Norham Gardens, Oxford
OX2 6QA

Portrait of Amorel Heron-Allen from Lady Margaret Hall

Portrait of Amorel Heron-Allen from Lady Margaret Hall

Details

Lady Margaret Hall (Tel: 01865 274300) is immediately north of the Oxford Parks. From whichever direction you …

Newsletter No. 10 (Spring 2007)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 10 (Spring 2007)

Newsletter No.10

  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen, Joan Maude and the Gods of the Fourth World'
  • Garry Garrard, 'A Fortunate Find'
  • John E. Whittaker, 'Heron-Allen, A Cow and the Selsey Tram'
  • Venetia Jones, 'Reflections of Venice & Extracts from EH-A's Holiday Journals (1898 & 1901)'

EH-A and Lady Margaret Hall

In his "Notes upon the Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Activities of Edward Heron-Allen, FRS" (Heron-Allen Society, Opusculum I (2000), EH-A wrote that after he lost his younger daughter Armorel Daphne in a car accident, within a fortnight of her having taken her degree (with first class honours) in Science, at …

Heron-Allen's Grave

Heron-Allen's Grave

Heron-Allen's Grave

The Grave at Church Norton in Selsey, West Sussex, where Edward Heron-Allen, his wife Edith and their daughter Armorel are buried was restored by Messrs F.A. Holland of Selsey in March 2007 at the direction of the Society. The stonework was cleaned and the lettering repaired.

Opusculum VII

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum VII

Opusculum VII

Edward Heron-Allen FRS: Scientist Proceedings of the 4th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2004

  • Edited by John E. Whittaker

The Selsey Feet

Chichester District Museum

Chichester District Museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. In celebration the Museum put on a temporary exhibition about its collection entitled "A Better Mousetrap and the Selsey Feet". The "better mousetrap" is another story but the "Selsey Feet" originally belonged to Heron-Allen before ending up …

News and Events 2006

February

In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society' to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society.

Opusculum VIII entitled 'Edward Heron-Allen and Friends' distributed to members.

March

At 7.30pm on …

Newsletter No. 9 (Autumn 2006)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 9 (Autumn 2006)

Newsletter No.9

  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Sixth Annual Heron-Allen Symposium'
  • Clive Jones, 'Some News of the Heron-Allen Microfossil Library at the Natural History Museum'
  • Joan Navarre, 'St. John's, Putney Hill'
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen, Edmund Downey and 'A House of Tears''
  • An Interview with Morton …

6th Annual Symposium 2006

6th Annual Symposium 2006

"Edward Heron-Allen and music"

11.00am
Saturday, 1st July, 2006

Royal College of Music
Donaldson Room
Prince Consort Road
London

Figure 149 from EHA's book 'Violin-Making, as it was and is'

Excerpt from the cover of "Violin-Making, as it was and is" by EH-A

Programme

  • 10.30 Tea and Coffee
  • 11.00 Welcome and Introduction by the …

Newsletter No. 8 (Spring 2006)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 8 (Spring 2006)

Newsletter No.8

  • Venetia Jones, 'Walter Sickert and Edward Heron-Allen'
  • Jacques Wilkinson, 'E. Heron-Allen's Sea-Chest'
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'S'Kitakura: or science with a sting'

Opusculum VI

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum VI

Opusculum VI

Portraits and Persia: Bookplates and Bognor: Proceedings of the 3rd Heron-Allen Symposium, 2003

  • Timothy J. McCann

News and Events 2005

February

In the evening of 9 February, Timothy McCann, the Chairman of the Society will give an illustrated talk entitled, 'Edward Heron-Allen and the Heron-Allen Society' to the Local History Group of the Selsey Society.

Opusculum VIII entitled 'Edward Heron-Allen and Friends' distributed to members.

March

The Linnean, the Newsletter …

The Selsey Plaque

The new plaque to be hung outside Large Acres in Selsey

The new plaque hung outside Large Acres in Selsey

Members will recall the Heron-Allen Plaque unveiling at Selsey on 15 July 2002 (described in Newsletter no.3). Your committee failed to check out the blue plaque unveiled outside Large Acres to the extent, and their eternal shame, that the letters …

Newsletter No. 7 (Autumn 2005)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 7 (Autumn 2005)

Newsletter No.7

  • Garry Garrard, 'The Fifth Annual Heron-Allen Symposium, held at the Allen Room, Soho, 2 July 2005'
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'The Fifth Annual Heron-Allen Lecture, held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, 11 March 2005'
  • Beachcomber, '88 Years old and still vegetating thoughtfully'
  • Joan Navarre …

5th Annual Symposium 2005

5th Annual Symposium 2005

"Edward Heron-Allen and Friends"

11.00am
Saturday, 2nd July, 2005

Allen Room
Dean Street
Soho, London

Silhouettes, 1916

Silhouettes of EH-A's family and friends at Large Acres (1916)

Programme

  • 11.00 Welcome and Introduction by the Chairman
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen, Raymond Tinne-Berthon and Treasure Trove at …

Newsletter No. 6 (Spring 2005)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 6 (Spring 2005)

Newsletter No.6

  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen and Frederick William Hamstede'
  • Venetia Jones. 'Winifred Elizabeth Beatrice Hardman'
  • An Interview with Morton Swinburne in the Bognor Post, Saturday 19th. January 1929, Part 1

Opusculum V

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum V

Opusculum V

Reflections on Heron-Allens's War Journal

  • Brian W. Harvey and Carol Fitzgerald

Newsletter No. 5 (Autumn 2004)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 5 (Autumn 2004)

Newsletter No.5

  • Robin J. Edwards, 'Account of the Fourth Annual Heron-Allen Symposium 2004, held at the Natural History Museum London'
  • Venetia Jones, 'The London Adventure: Explorations into hidden literary London'
  • Jane Seddon, 'A better Mousetrap and the Selsey Feet'
  • 'The Tiger's Mouth: A false Meteorite' …

4th Annual Symposium 2004

4th Annual Symposium 2004

"Edward Heron-Allen FRS, scientist"

11.00am-5.00pm
Saturday, 3rd July, 2004

Natural History Museum
Mineralogy Seminar Room and Heron-Allen Library
Cromwell Road
London

Portrait of Heron-Allen at his desk

Portrait of Heron-Allen

Programme

Morning Session - Chairman: John Whittaker (The Natural History Museum)

  • 11.00am Welcome, coffee and comments on Heron-Allen's Westminster Fire …

The London Adventure: Explorations into Hidden Literary London

Presented by Dr Joan Navarre
Saturday, 12 June 2004

A group of about twenty, mainly from literary clubs, and three EH-A Society members assembled at 3pm. Close to to St. Mary Abbotts Church in Kensington on the anniversary of the day that Edward Heron-Allen read the horoscope of Cyril Wilde …

Newsletter No. 4 (Spring 2004)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 4 (Spring 2004)

Newsletter No.4

  • Brian Hulan, 'The Third Heron-Allen Symposium, London, 5 July 2003'
  • Joan Navarre, 'Portrait of George Allen'
  • Andy Henderson and John Whittaker, 'The Clare Island Survey'
  • Joan Navarre, '33 Hamilton Terrace'

Opusculum IV

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum IV

Opusculum IV

The Beauty and Mystery of the Foraminifera The Scientific Research of Edward Heron-Allen FRS

  • Richard L. Hodgkinson and John E. Whittaker

Newsletter No. 3 (Spring 2003)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 3 (Spring 2003)

Newsletter No.3

  • Timothy J. McCann, 'The Second Heron-Allen Symposium, Chichester, 6 July 2002'
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'The Heron-Allen Plaque Unveiling'
  • Tom Creedy, 'The Selsey Society Heron-Allen Evening'
  • Timothy J. McCann, 'Edward Heron-Allen and George Borrow's Beer Jug'
  • Meic Pierce Owen, 'Heron-Allen Material within the University …

Opusculum III

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum III

Opusculum III

The Quest for the Heron-Allen Society

  • Timothy J. McCann

Edward Heron-Allen in America: A Rare Photograph by Napoleon Sarony

Article by Joan Navarre

When I presented a paper on Edward Heron-Allen in America (EH-A Society Meeting of 7 July 2002) I posed a research question: Where are all the photographs of EH-A?

EH-A documents that he had been photographed numerous times while in America (1886-1889). However, only a few …

Newsletter No. 2 (Spring 2002)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 2 (Spring 2002)

Newsletter No.2

  • Second Annual Symposium
  • Edward Heron-Allen and George Borrow's Beer Jug
  • The Heron-Allen Plaque Unveiling
  • Heron-Allen Material at University of St. Andrews Special Collections
  • Edward Heron-Allen's Scientific Library at the Natural History Museum

Opusculum II

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum II

Opusculum II

Edward Heron-Allen

  • Ivor E. Jones

Newsletter No. 1 (Spring 2001)

Heron-Allen Society Newsletter No. 1 (Spring 2001)

Newsletter No.1

  • First Annual Symposium
  • Publications relating to Heron-Allen
  • Literary originals
  • The Heron-Allen Collection at the Natural History Museum
  • The Heron-Allen Plaque

Opusculum I

Heron-Allen Society Opusculum I

Opusculum I

Notes Upon the Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Activities of Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S.

  • Christopher Blayre PhD., D.Litt.