The Pedants' Society

The Pedants' Society

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 2024

Held at the Society's rooms, Bedford Square, on Thursday, the 14th day of November, at 7.00 p.m.

Present: The President (Mr Tarquin Lovelock), the Secretary, the Treasurer, and forty-six Fellows.

Apologies: Six. All in good order.

Minutes of the previous meeting: Read. Accepted with one amendment, regarding the position of a comma in the Treasurer's surname.

Item 1. Treasurer's report. Presented. Received. No questions.

Item 2. Membership report. Presented. Received. The Society notes the admission of Mr Lionel Quesnel (#00470), the first Fellow elected by electronic submission via the Society's website. The Membership Secretary observed that the admission had occasioned no procedural objection. The observation was minuted.

Item 3. The Errors Register. The Secretary reported that the Register had received eleven submissions during the year, of which seven had been accepted. The seven were enumerated. The Society confirmed receipt by acclamation.

Item 4. The Antipodean Chapter. The matter was raised. The matter was set aside. The Society confirmed that the matter would be raised, and set aside, again at the next AGM.

Item 5. Election of officers. Conducted by show of hands. All officers re-elected.

Any Other Business. None.

Date of next meeting: Tuesday, 28th January 2025, 7.00 p.m.

The Curator's note, appended in 2026: this is the only Annual General Meeting in the Society's history at which all items on the order paper were addressed and concluded within the meeting in which they were tabled. The Society has not, at the time of writing, equalled the achievement.


Transcribed by the Curator, by hand, on a typewriter, with the index finger of the right hand only, on the principle of error reduction. Errors identified in the original have been corrected and the corrections recorded in marginal notes. Errors identified in the transcription may be reported to the Errors Register.