Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Formation 1883
Type Historical Society
Legal status Charity
Purpose Historical Study and Research
Headquarters Manchester, United Kingdom
Location
Region served
Lancashire, Cheshire, and Greater Manchester
Official language
English
54th President
 Dr Michael R. Powell
Website www.landcas.org.uk

The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society is a historical society and a registered charity (No. 1105708).[1] It was founded in 1883 for the education of the public by fostering and promoting the study of any aspects of the archaeology (both traditional and industrial), history, social history, genealogy, architecture and the arts, trade and trades, the history of institutions and local government, customs, and traditions of the area covered by the Palatine counties of Lancashire and Cheshire and succeeding local authorities ranging from antiquity to the twenty-first century.[2][3][4] Although the Society is based upon Manchester, its studies and activities embrace the region.[5] The society became a registered charity in 2004.

Activities

The society organises a varied programme of lectures and events including visits to exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries and places of historical, architectural and archaeological interest. The society also possesses an extensive Library of materials relating to the history and antiquities of both counties.

Transactions

The Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society is the society's peer-reviewed periodical which is published annually, and includes papers covering a wide variety of subjects relating to the two counties. The society also produces other publications on occasion. The 108th volume of the society's Transactions was published in 2012.[6]

Membership

Membership is open to all individuals and societies who are interested in the various historical aspects of the two counties Palatine.

Presidents

  • 1883–85 Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins
  • 1885–86 Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Lord Egerton of Tatton
  • 1886–89 James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
  • 1889–92 Sir William Cunliffe Brooks
  • 1892–97 Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
  • 1897–98 Lt-Col. Henry Fishwick
  • 1898–99 James Holme Nicholson
  • 1899–1900 Charles William Sutton
  • 1900–02 Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins
  • 1902–03 Rev. Ernest Frederick Letts
  • 1903–04 William Edward Armytage Axon
  • 1904–05 Henry Taylor
  • 1905–06 George Pearson
  • 1906–07 Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
  • 1907–09 Henry Thomas Crofton
  • 1909–10 Lt-Col. Gilbert Joseph French
  • 1910–12 Fletcher Moss
  • 1912–13 Albert Nicholson
  • 1913–14 Rev. Henry Arnold Hudson.
  • 1914–15 William Harrison
  • 1915–16 Nathan Heywood
  • 1916–17 Charles Tallent Tallent-Bateman
  • 1917–18 Rev. Thomas Cann Hughes
  • 1918–19 Robert Peel
  • 1919–20 Joseph James Phelps
  • 1920–21 Ernest Charles Armytage Axon
  • 1921–22 William Self Weeks
  • 1922–23 John Swarbrick
  • 1923–24 Col. Alan Francis Maclure
  • 1924–25 Maj. David Halstead
  • 1925–26 Llewellyn Andrew
  • 1926–8 Walter Butterworth
  • 1928–33 Col. John William Robinson Parker
  • 1933–36 John Wilfrid Jackson
  • 1936 Robert Wardman
  • 1937–41 Alderman Thomas Middleton
  • 1941–44 Rev. Canon Thomas Cruddas Porteus
  • 1944–46 Arthur John Hawkes
  • 1946–49 Dr George Henry Tupling
  • 1949–52 William Scholes
  • 1952–54 Edmund Ogden
  • 1954–58 Professor Roderick Urwick Sayce
  • 1958–64 Dr James Alexander Petch
  • 1964–67 Robert Norman Dore
  • 1967–88 Victor Innes Tomlinson
  • 1988–91 Robert Norman Dore
  • 1991–94 Dr Leslie Doyle
  • 1994–97 Gordon Bradley Hindle
  • 1997–2000 Evelyn V. Vigeon
  • 2000–03 Walter Bee
  • 2003–09 Eric Foster
  • 2009–12 Dr Edward F. Cass
  • 2012–16 Morris Garratt
  • 2016–present Dr Michael R. Powell

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "Charity Commission of England and Wales". Charity Commission of England and Wales. 2015-12-11. Retrieved 2015-12-11.
  2. ↑ Jackson, J.W., 'Genesis and Progress of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 49 (1933), 104-12.
  3. ↑ Jackson, J.W., 'The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883-1943', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 57 (1943-4), 1-17.
  4. ↑ Tomlinson, V.I., 'The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883-1983', Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 83 (1985), 1-39.
  5. ↑ "Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society". landcas.org.uk. 2012-01-01. Retrieved 2012-01-01.
  6. ↑ Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 108 (2012), ISSN 0950-4699
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