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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
The Annual General Meeting was held at The Museum,
Maidstone, on 9th May, 1959.
Council's Annual Report, and the Statement of Accounts
for 1958, were received and adopted.
After the luncheon adjournment nearly 100 members and their
friends met to hear lectures by Mr. R. F. Jessup, F.S.A., on Roman
Walled Cemeteries, and by Lt.-Col. G. W. Meates, F.S.A., on The
Lullingstone Roman Mausoleum. Both of the lectures were excellently
illustrated, and were much enjoyed by the audience.
MEMBERSHIP
During the year the gratifyingly large number of 73 new
members were elected. The Society derives its strength mainly from the
size of its membership, and Council appeals to all members of the
Society to continue their efforts to recruit new members.
Mr. R. H. D'Elboux, F.S.A., sometime Honorary General
Secretary, has been elected an Honorary Member in appreciation of his
services to the Society.
COUNCIL
At the Annual General Meeting the retiring members of
Council, namely Mr. F. C. Elliston Erwood, Mr. L. R. A. Grove, Dr. F.
Hull, Mr. R. F. Jessup, Lt.-Col. G. W. Meates, and Mr. W. P. D.
Stebbing, were re-elected.
Mr. R. H. Goodsall was elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Mr. B. W. Swithinbank.
Lt. -Col. Meates was re-elected Chairman of Council for the
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LIBRARY AND COLLECTIONS
Council reports with pleasure that Mr. H. E. Bailey, M.A.,
who has been a member of the Society since 1946, has taken on the office
of Honorary Librarian.
Some twenty-four objects of the Anglo-Saxon period from the
Society's collections were lent, subject to suitable safeguards, to
the Hague Museum for three months, for inclusion in an important
exhibition entitled "Van Friezen, Franken en Sasksen ", which
dealt with the Migration Period in Holland.
The following additions by gift were made to the library
and collections during the year: Kippington in Kent, its History and
its Churches, by Hugh Wyatt Standen, 1958 : gift of the Author. The
Place Names of Derbyshire, by K. Cameron (English Place-Name
Society, volumes XXVII-XXIX), 1959: gift of the late B. W. Swithinbank,
C.B.E. Transactions of the Gravesend Historical Society for 1957
and 1958 : gift of the Society. Two pamphlets on the Margate Grotto by
Conan and Nellie I. Shaw: gift of the Authors. Maison Dieu, Ospringe,
by S. E. Rigold and G. C. Dunning, H.M.S.O., 1958 : gift of the
Ministry of Works. Report on Discoveries at the Parish Church of St.
Peter and St. Paul, Shoreham, Kent, 1956-58, by A. D. Stoyel: gift
of the Author. A small collection of Kent prints; gift of the Surrey
Archaeologica1 Society.
The amenities of the Society's Rooms have been much
improved by our Honorary Editor's gift of three 18th century chairs, a
bookcase and a Dimplex thermostatically -controlled electric radiator. |