SZ/RS/26 - Royal Society Club
Reference code
SZ/RS/26
Level of description
File
Title
Royal Society Club
Date/s
1954-1986
Quantity & Format
3 sub-files
Scope and content
The Royal Society Club is a dining club with a fixed number of ordinary members (in 1981 this was set at 90), all of whom must be Fellows of the Royal Society, and an ex-officio membership consisting of the President of the Society, The Vice-Presidents, the Treasurer, the Society's two Secretaries and its Foreign Secretary, the Astronomer Royal, and the honorary members. Candidates for the ordinary membership required three proposers from among the membership.
SZ was elected an ordinary member in 1954 and became an honorary member, by virtue of 25 years membership, in 1979. Membership lapsed if a member failed to attend at least one meeting per year; SZ had difficulty in meeting this requirement on occasion.
Sub-file SZ/RS/26/1 consists chiefly of a record of the proceedings of the Club's annual Anniversary Meeting. From the correspondence in sub-file SZ/RS/26/3 there is evidence that the members' restaurant of London Zoo was an occasional and popular venue for meetings. The 'regular' venue was the Athenaeum, the fare offered at which did not always elicit delight. SZ laid the blame on the RS Club's parsimony [letter to Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 13.4.71].
SZ was elected an ordinary member in 1954 and became an honorary member, by virtue of 25 years membership, in 1979. Membership lapsed if a member failed to attend at least one meeting per year; SZ had difficulty in meeting this requirement on occasion.
Sub-file SZ/RS/26/1 consists chiefly of a record of the proceedings of the Club's annual Anniversary Meeting. From the correspondence in sub-file SZ/RS/26/3 there is evidence that the members' restaurant of London Zoo was an occasional and popular venue for meetings. The 'regular' venue was the Athenaeum, the fare offered at which did not always elicit delight. SZ laid the blame on the RS Club's parsimony [letter to Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft, 13.4.71].