February The Society’s Opusculum No. XXIV entitled ‘Edward Heron-Allen: Beginnings and Endings’, edited by Timothy J. McCann and John E. Whittaker, was published and distributed. The Opusculum included articles by David Thompson on ‘Edward Heron-Allen. A further brief Genealogy’; John P. Mahoney and Barbara P. Mahoney and Antonella Maraini on ‘The Mrs. E.C. Buckley – Sir Coleridge Kennard…
March The annual Heron-Allen Lecture will be held at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on Friday 3 March 2017, at 5.45pm to 7.15pm, in the Simpkins Lee Theatre. The speaker will be Rory Stewart OBE MP. He was appointed Minister of State at the Department for International Development on 17 July 2016, and was elected the…
March 4 March 2016: The annual Heron-Allen lecture and drinks reception will be held in the Simpkins Lee Theatre at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford at 5.15. The guest speaker will be Dominic Johnson, Alastair Buchan Chair of International Relations, Director of Research Department of Politics and International Relations. His lecture is entitled ‘Natural Governance: Lessons…
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. [Details to follow] June The Society’s 15th…
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. Geological Society, London, includes on pp. 47-57 an…
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 No.2, modelled after the Joseph Guarnerius de Gesu…
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.20 was published. Articles included: ‘Unseen Corsica by EH-A, 1921’,…
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 Centre, near Chichester on Tuesday, 11 January…
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’; ‘Joint Meeting with the Royal Irish Academy’ by…
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…