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 …
"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
Lady Margaret Hall (Tel: 01865 274300) is immediately north of the Oxford Parks. From whichever direction you …
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 …
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.
Edward Heron-Allen FRS: Scientist Proceedings of the 4th Heron-Allen Symposium, 2004
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 …
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 …
"Edward Heron-Allen and music"
11.00am
Saturday, 1st July, 2006
Royal College of Music
Donaldson Room
Prince Consort Road
London
Excerpt from the cover of "Violin-Making, as it was and is" by EH-A
Portraits and Persia: Bookplates and Bognor: Proceedings of the 3rd Heron-Allen Symposium, 2003
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 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 …
"Edward Heron-Allen and Friends"
11.00am
Saturday, 2nd July, 2005
Allen Room
Dean Street
Soho, London
Silhouettes of EH-A's family and friends at Large Acres (1916)
Reflections on Heron-Allens's War Journal
"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
Morning Session - Chairman: John Whittaker (The Natural History Museum)
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 …
The Beauty and Mystery of the Foraminifera The Scientific Research of Edward Heron-Allen FRS
The Quest for the Heron-Allen Society
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 …
Edward Heron-Allen
Notes Upon the Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Activities of Edward Heron-Allen, F.R.S.