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 new problems. And so it is with the Ogle portrait. What exactly is the object in the foreground…
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 signed it ‘Flavian’ which is…
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 of 5 January 1905, which stated that:…
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, better still, remember seeing them…
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 will be gratefully received by the Committee.…
Can anyone pronounce or identify TRTHWWSTHPLLGG in Cornwall mentioned in Princess Daphne? (Eric Trevanion’s house) and does it mean anything? Please send any information to the webmaster
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.
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 ‘FRS’ were omitted from it. It was thought essential that this should be corrected: accordingly, the…