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…
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…
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…
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:…
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
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 about “Conserving the Saiga Antelope: Science…