The Register

The Roll of Fellows of the Pedants' Society, in full. Sortable, searchable, and — the Society maintains — substantively accurate.

No.	Name	Admitted	Tier	Distinction
00001	Miss Emily Clatterbuck	January 1847	Foundation	Founding Fellow. Letter to The Times, 14 March 1846.
00002	Rev. Augustus Prout-Whistle	January 1847	Foundation	Founding Fellow. Presided over the First Schism. d. 1861.
00003	Mrs Ellen Walker	February 1847	Foundation	Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00004	Mr Bartholomew Whittaker	March 1848	Foundation	One of three Founding Fellows to insist that the Society's foundation date should be 1846, on the grounds that the planning correspondence began that year. The matter was settled by vote in 1851; he abstained, on principle, from the vote on his own motion.
00005	Cordelia Haversham	June 1848	Foundation	Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984; the Subcommittee did not meet, on principle, between 1971 and 1979.
00006	Miss Constance Drewry	May 1849	Foundation	Wrote, in 1853, the Society's first formal letter of complaint to itself. The Secretary responded in writing the following week. The exchange runs to fourteen letters.
00007	Miss Harriet Quibb	February 1850	Foundation	Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00008	Humphrey Partington	May 1850	Foundation	Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00009	Rev. Tobias Pellew	October 1850	F.	Refused, throughout his Fellowship, to use the Society's official notepaper on the grounds that the watermark was set in italic. Provided his own.
00010	Mr Crispin Evans	August 1851	F.	Drafted a forty-page paper on the misuse of "between you and I", to which no Fellow has ever published a response, the matter having been considered closed.
00011	Miss Beatrice Marchmont	August 1851	Foundation	Petitioned The Times no fewer than forty-one times on the subject of the split infinitive. Three were published.
00012	Mr Frederick Partington	October 1851	Life	Corrected his own wedding invitations after posting, by following them, house to house, with a pen. The marriage proceeded; the guest list, his wife observed, was now also an itinerary.
00013	Sir Marmaduke Catesby	February 1852	Life	Resigned the Vice-Presidency in 1869, citing the President's use of "whilst" in opening remarks; was reinstated by acclamation at the same meeting after the President withdrew the word.
00014	Mr Aloysius Hall	February 1853	Foundation	Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00015	Miss Hortensia Slack	June 1853	F.	Maintained that the Society's name should properly be "The Society of Pedants" and refused, in writing, to acknowledge the apostrophe. Her letters are filed separately.
00016	Dr Inigo Frome	April 1854	F. (fr.)	Compiled the Society's first known errata sheet for its own bylaws (1859), running to nine pages. The bylaws have been revised four times since; his errata sheet remains current against the present text.
00017	Miss Charlotte Kennedy	August 1854	Foundation	Corrected the proposal of marriage she accepted, observing that she could not spend a lifetime beside an unrevised sentence. The corrected proposal hangs in her granddaughter's hall.
00018	Brig. Herbert Young	January 1855	Life	Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00019	Mr Cyril Marchbanks	November 1855	F.
00020	Prof. Mortimer Foster	October 1856	Foundation	Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00021	Mr Albert Macnamara	February 1857	Foundation	Insisted, throughout his Fellowship, that the Society's tea-cups be kept on the saucer "for reasons of formality". The matter went to vote in 1881 and he prevailed.
00022	Lady Henrietta Wrayford	March 1857	Foundation	Convened the first Standing Committee on Female Pedantry in 1862 and dissolved it the following year, having concluded that the distinction was itself ungrammatical.
00023	Mr Quintus Urquhart	April 1857	Life	Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00024	Miss Martha Turner	February 1858	F.	Maintained that "reverend" is an adjective, not a title, and signed his Society correspondence accordingly: "the Reverend Mr Crumbwell". The Society conceded the point in 1864.
00025	Mr Alfred Grimble	September 1858	Life	Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00026	Mr Obadiah Tench	September 1858	F.	Refused to attend any meeting after 1879 in protest at the room's acoustics, but continued to submit written objections by post for the following thirty-one years.
00027	Mr Edwin Quigley	November 1858	Life	Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00028	Maj. Magnus Brady	January 1859	Foundation	Served in the Crimea, where he is recorded as having returned the quartermaster's indents corrected, under fire, "the requisition being no less a sentence for being urgent". The quartermaster's reply is not preserved; the corrected indents are.
00029	Mr Hector Cholmondeley	January 1859	Foundation	Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00030	Rev. Septimus Crumbwell	February 1859	F. (fr.)	Resigned his club, his parish council, and his regiment's dining society in a single year, each over "whom", and remarked that the Society was now all that stood between him and conversation.
00031	Mr Hubert Underhay	May 1859	Foundation	Defected to the breakaway Society of Pedants in 1872, then returned the following year "on grounds of typographical inferiority". Re-admitted with formal apology to the Membership.
00032	Prof. Eustace Cardigan	May 1860	F.	Held the Chair of Comparative Punctuation at Durham. Resigned the Society Vice-Presidency in 1873 over the President's failure to use a colon where a semicolon was indicated.
00033	Mrs Margaret Jenkins	November 1860	Foundation	Taught three generations of the parish school that "alright" is not all right, with such effect that the village's war memorial subscription forms are, uniquely in the county, unimpeachable.
00034	Sir Gervase Fitzpatrick	April 1861	F.	Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00035	Mrs Emily Jones	June 1861	F.	Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00036	Prof. Horatio Grimble	November 1861	Foundation	Second President. Compendium of Errors (1868).
00037	Miss Adela Spurling	January 1862	Assoc.	The Society's first Associate Fellow admitted on the basis of correspondence alone. Her ten-year exchange with the Founding Secretary is the earliest surviving item in the archive.
00038	Mr Cuthbert Flynn	April 1862	Foundation	Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00039	Sir Percival Goodchild	August 1862	Foundation	Composed the Society's Latin motto, then immediately disputed his own translation. The dispute remains unresolved in the archive.
00040	Valentine Hughes	September 1863	Foundation	Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00041	Mr Phineas Galloway	April 1864	F.
00042	Miss Catherine Hill	May 1864	Foundation	Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00043	Lady Georgiana Hawkshaw	February 1865	Foundation	Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00044	Brig.-Gen. Augustin Carraway	October 1866	Life	Refused the Presidency in 1881 on the grounds that he had not been personally invited by each Fellow individually. The matter remains unresolved in the archive.
00045	Mr Ebenezer Smith	December 1866	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00046	Roland Saltonstall	February 1867	F.	Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00047	Mr Rupert Davis	January 1868	Foundation	Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00048	Lt-Col. Edmund Colquhoun	March 1868	Foundation	Submitted, between 1872 and 1908, four hundred and seventeen letters of complaint to the War Office on the proper use of military titles in despatches; the War Office’s eventual reply, in 1911, was held by the Society to constitute an admission.
00049	Rev. Mortimer Pugh	March 1869	F.	Brother of Lt-Col. Reginald Pugh (#00125). The two corresponded weekly for nineteen years on a single point of pronunciation; both maintained the correctness of their position; the Society declined to adjudicate.
00050	Dr Robert Mitchell	April 1869	F. (fr.)	Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00051	Mr Herbert Davies	June 1869	Foundation	Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00052	Col. Quintus Vaughan	December 1869	Foundation	Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00053	Brig. Wilberforce Martin	December 1870	F.	Held the unbroken Society record for points of order raised in a single meeting: forty-one, at the AGM of 1894. The meeting was abandoned at item three of the agenda.
00054	Prof. Charles Partington	April 1871	F.	Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00055	Mr Horatio Saltonstall	August 1871	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00056	Mrs Maude Ramsay	December 1871	F. (fr.)	Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00057	Lady Rosalind Carshaw	April 1872	Foundation	Founded the Society's Ladies' Subcommittee on Correct Form. Resigned the chair in 1894 over a disputed semicolon.
00058	Col. Rupert Feverstone-Mainwaring	April 1872	Life	Resigned the Chair of the Standing Committee on Hyphenation in 1898, citing exhaustion. The Committee was thereafter unable to elect a replacement, the candidates disagreeing on the hyphenation of "co-Chair".
00059	Mortimer Honeyfield	July 1872	F.	Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00060	Mrs Hyacinth Dewar	July 1872	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 1888 on the discovery that she had, in a Society publication of 1879, used "comprised of"; refused readmission for three years thereafter, on the same grounds, despite the Society's repeated offer to consider the matter closed.
00061	Mrs Eustacia Trenholm	September 1872	F. (fr.)	Maintained, until her death in 1923, that the comma’s proper position in a list of three was "a matter for individual judgement, exercised in accordance with settled usage". The Society did not, in her lifetime, settle the usage.
00062	Dr Cornelius Pemble	March 1873	F.	Maintained a 38-year correspondence with The Spectator on the proper use of "whence". The Spectator published one letter, in 1898, with a subediting alteration he never forgave.
00063	Mr Cedric Quigley	May 1873	F.	Read the lesson at his brother's wedding from his own corrected text, the authorised version being, in his phrase, "authorised, not proofread".
00064	William Winterbottom	July 1873	F. (fr.)	Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00065	Prof. Wilberforce Harris	August 1873	Life	Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00066	Mrs Blanche Gordon	October 1873	F.	Voted "Aye" to a motion in 1882, then immediately submitted a written objection on the grounds that he had intended "Yea". The Secretary recorded both, with a note.
00067	Maj. Cyril Whistle	July 1874	F.	Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00068	Miss Adelina Frostwick	September 1874	F.	Held the Society’s record for longest unbroken correspondence on a single point of usage: fifty-two years (1879–1931), with The Spectator, on the proper position of the apostrophe in the possessive of "Jones". Her final letter, dictated from her sickbed and posted on the morning of her death, concluded: "I do not expect to live to receive your reply, and I am told I should not. But the matter is not, on that account, settled. The apostrophe will outlast us both." The Spectator, in an unprecedented gesture, printed the letter on its leader page. The Society notes the gesture, and notes also that the leader page contained two typographical errors, neither corrected.
00069	Prof. Herbert Allen	November 1874	Life	Opposed the penny post on the ground that cheap postage would multiply error faster than the Society could correct it. The archive marks the prediction "vindicated".
00070	Mr Leonard Cameron	November 1874	Life	Chair, Committee on the Semi-colon, 1902.
00071	Mr Cyril Sopwith	February 1875	F.	Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00072	Rev. Horace Faversham	July 1875	F. (fr.)	Kept his diary in the future perfect, holding it the only honest tense for a diary, since all of it will have happened.
00073	Miss Maud Allen	September 1875	Assoc.	Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00074	Mr Cedric Thistlewood	October 1875	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00075	Theobald Pilkington	January 1876	F.	Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00076	Mr Neville Llewelyn	May 1876	F.	Was challenged to a duel in 1884 over a correction delivered at cards; chose, as the offended party's right, the weapons: "dictionaries, at dawn". The challenger withdrew.
00077	Mrs Gertrude Harris	August 1876	F.	Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00078	Lt-Col. Horace Gray	October 1876	F. (fr.)	Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00079	Prof. John Buckle	April 1877	F.	Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00080	Mr Horatio Urquhart	September 1877	F.	Author of the 1898 monograph On the Semicolon in Legal Correspondence, in which he maintained that the semicolon was the only punctuation mark capable of expressing the necessary degree of qualified assent. The monograph remains in print.
00081	Maj. Ernest Nethercott	January 1878	F.	Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00082	Lt-Col. Cedric Lacey	February 1878	F. (fr.)
00083	Dame Agatha Anderson	February 1879	F.	Returned her census form in 1888 with the enumerator's instructions corrected, and a covering letter the General Register Office acknowledged "with thanks, and some alarm".
00084	Lady Elizabeth Thistlewood	February 1879	F.	Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00085	Mrs Elsie Wigglesworth	October 1879	F.	Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00086	Mr Lysander Twigg	November 1879	F.	The Society's first Fellow to be elected, struck off, readmitted, and re-struck-off within a single calendar year (1894). The Curator notes that the dates were correctly minuted.
00087	Rev. Marmaduke Pugh	February 1880	F.	Author of The Tyranny of Loose Punctuation (Cassell, 1891). No relation, despite the surname, to Rev. Mortimer Pugh (#00053); the matter was put beyond doubt by both Fellows in correspondence with the Curator.
00088	Walter Wood	February 1880	Life	Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00089	Cedric Quibb	May 1880	F. (fr.)	Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00090	Mr Bertram Hunt	July 1880	Life	Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00091	Mr Cyril Kettlewell	October 1880	Assoc.	Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00092	Mr Edwin Colquhoun	February 1881	F.	Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00093	Mr Crispus Whitelaw	March 1881	F.	Held the floor at the 1889 AGM until 11.40 p.m. on a point of order which he had himself raised. The meeting reconvened at 9 a.m. the following morning, at which point he resumed.
00094	Dr Arthur Baker	May 1881	F.	Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00095	Brig. Charles MacDonald	November 1881	F. (fr.)	Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00096	Mrs Edith Sopwith	March 1882	F.	Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00097	Sir Edmund Carshalton (the elder)	May 1882	F.	Chair of the Society throughout the 1920s. Arrested at the door of the Department of Education in November 1926 in the matter of the proposed standardisation of school grammar instruction; sentenced to four months at Pentonville, of which he served three. The Society did not disavow him, recording instead a formal vote of thanks "for his unflinching commitment to the Society’s cause, by means which a less devoted Fellow would have hesitated to employ". His portrait hangs in the anteroom; it is the second-largest portrait in the room.
00098	Miss Aurelia Cropthorne	June 1882	Assoc.	Wrote, between 1885 and 1923, a series of forty-one letters to The Times correcting a single sub-editor's use of the en-dash. The sub-editor predeceased her by eleven years.
00099	Mr Clarence Jervoise	July 1882	F.
00100	Mr Alaric Pemmington	October 1882	F. (fr.)	Once corrected the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, in writing, on the use of "fewer" where "less" was indicated; the letter was returned without comment. Pemmington framed the unanswered letter and hung it in his study, where it remained until his death in 1934. His will directed that the letter be presented to the Society in perpetuity. It hangs in the anteroom, beneath the Bracegirdle plaque, with a small card reading: "Mr Pemmington’s correspondence with the Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, MP. The matter is unresolved."
00101	Mrs Drusilla Colquhoun	January 1883	F. (fr.)
00102	Mr Sidney O'Donovan	September 1883	Life	Tabled the same motion concerning the spelling of "judgement" at every Annual Meeting from 1891 to 1934. The motion was defeated forty-three times.
00103	Sir Vivian Methuen	October 1883	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in February 1907 in recognition of his sustained defence of the requirement that Society minutes be taken in cursive script, and barred from attending meetings on the same grounds, the Society finding itself unable otherwise to transact its business.
00104	Mr Crispian Feverstone	January 1884	F.	Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00105	Albert Bell	March 1884	F.
00106	Mr John Morris	April 1884	F. (fr.)	Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00107	Capt. Basil Plumtree	September 1884	Life	Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00108	Dr Octavius Bramble	January 1885	F.	Submitted, in 1898, a draft revision of the Society's bylaws running to 412 pages, with a covering letter recommending its adoption "as a working draft only". The Society is understood to have set it aside.
00109	Mr Bertram Ashworth	March 1885	F.	Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00110	Maj. Arthur Lee	July 1885	F.	Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00111	Mrs Cordelia Wedge	October 1885	F.	Author of "On the Form of the Letter of Complaint" (Quarterly Statement, vol. XXIII, 1909), the Society’s principal published statement of its method. Her five principles of correspondence — that the Letter is occasional, reasoned, courteous, precise, and final — are taught, informally and by example, to every new Fellow.
00112	Mr Neville ffrench	December 1885	F.	Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00113	Mr Clement Baker	February 1886	F.	Resigned in 1911, citing "an irreconcilable difference of opinion with myself"; was talked round at the next meeting and re-admitted without ceremony.
00114	Mr Ernest Stewart	February 1886	F. (fr.)
00115	Mr Bertram Whicker	April 1886	F.
00116	Mr Basil McLoughlin	July 1886	Assoc.	Disinherited his nephew by codicil for a thank-you letter containing "should of"; restored him, by second codicil, for a letter of apology containing nothing actionable.
00117	Rev. Dr Bartholomew Nesbit	September 1887	F.	Ejected 1889, reinstated 1891, ejected 1892.
00118	Mr Charles Norrington	September 1887	F.	Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00119	Mrs Olive Plumb	September 1887	F. (fr.)	Maintained, throughout her Fellowship, that "Mrs" should be followed by a full stop in all formal contexts. The Society's letterhead was altered in her honour in 1903 and altered back in 1947, after her death.
00120	George Galbraith	November 1887	Assoc.
00121	Mr Frederick Fraser	January 1888	Life	Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00122	Mr Herbert Harrison	March 1888	Life	Announced his retirement from correction at the AGM of 1898, to general applause; corrected the seconder of the vote of thanks; withdrew the retirement as out of order.
00123	Sir Algernon Goodyear	April 1888	F.	President during the First World War; chaired the Standing Sub-committee on the Pinch-Bracewell Affair (1917) and signed the Society’s letter of qualified support and qualified rebuke to Capt. Pinch-Bracewell at the Front.
00124	Col. Reginald Marchant	December 1888	Life	Resigned the chairmanship of the 1901 Punctuation Tribunal mid-meeting, citing a misplaced semicolon in the order of business; was prevailed upon to resume after a fifteen-minute recess.
00125	Lt-Col. Reginald Pugh	June 1889	Life	Brother of the Rev. Mortimer Pugh. Quarrelled with him by post, weekly, for nineteen years.
00126	Miss Millicent Whitcombe	August 1889	Assoc.	Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to the use of "literally" as an intensifier, then withdrew it for revision in 1923. The revision was never completed.
00127	Brig. Harry Urquhart	November 1889	F.	Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00128	Miss Prudence Vellacott	March 1890	Assoc.	The Society's first Fellow to submit a written objection to her own admission letter; the objection ran to three pages and was, the Curator notes, well taken.
00129	Mrs Blanche Anderson	April 1890	Assoc.	Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00130	Mr Thomas Strachan	May 1890	F. (fr.)	Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00131	Lt-Col. Theobald Haversham	December 1890	F.	Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00132	Prof. Algernon Frost	August 1891	F.
00133	Mr George Heatherington	October 1891	F.	Committee on Orthographic Drift, 1923.
00134	Capt. Crispian Hughes	December 1891	F. (fr.)	Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00135	Sidney O'Callaghan	February 1892	F.	Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00136	Mr Ernest Kelly	June 1892	F.	Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00137	Mr Percival Duffy	January 1893	F.	Carried his own blue pencil to the barber, the dentist, and, on the one recorded occasion, the magistrate, who allowed it.
00138	Prof. Wilfred Macpherson	April 1893	F.	Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00139	Rev. Hubert Pinch	May 1893	F.	Convened the Society's Committee on the Subjunctive in 1907 and continued as its sole member until his death in 1934. The Committee is still notionally extant, no successor having been appointed.
00140	Miss Prudence Witherington	October 1893	Life	Raised the Apostrophe Objection, 1998 EGM.
00141	Dame Cornelia Thistlewood	April 1894	F. (fr.)	Held the floor for two hours and forty minutes at the 1909 AGM on the subject of the Oxford comma; the meeting was adjourned without reaching a vote, and she was thereafter known as the Standing Member.
00142	Mr Theodore Whicker	July 1894	F. (fr.)	Known to all as Teddy.
00143	Mr Ulick Mossop	October 1894	F. (fr.)	Petitioned the Society in 1912 for the introduction of a formal grievance procedure; chaired the resulting working group, which met seventeen times without producing a draft.
00144	Mr Arthur Macnamara	December 1894	F.
00145	Mr Mortimer Cholmondeley	January 1895	F.	Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00146	Dr Edwin Mountstuart	June 1895	F.
00147	Mrs Lilian Partington	December 1895	Life	Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00148	Lady Felicity Brougham	February 1896	Foundation	The principal author of the Society's 1899 standing rebuke to the use of "alright"; the rebuke was so comprehensively drafted that no Fellow has subsequently attempted to extend it.
00149	Rev. Cedric O'Neill	March 1896	Assoc.	Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00150	Col. Theobald Moore	September 1896	F.	Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00151	Mrs Elizabeth Grimshaw	November 1896	F. (fr.)	Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00152	Arthur Bramble	March 1897	Life	Chaired the Sub-committee on the Apostrophe in "who's" from 1932 to his death in 1958. No report was issued; no successor was appointed.
00153	Rev. Ernest Jones	April 1897	F.	Refused a knighthood, the citation containing a comma splice; accepted, the following year, the corrected citation, and held thereafter that he had been knighted "on appeal".
00154	Mr Albert Lacey	June 1897	F.	Spoke at his own retirement dinner for eleven minutes on the difference between "continual" and "continuous" service, establishing that his had been both.
00155	Mr Septimus Cathcart	June 1897	F.	Resigned in 1908 over the President's use of "between you and I" at the AGM; the Society notes that the President had used the construction in jest, but that this was not held to be a defence.
00156	Neville Thistlewood	August 1897	F. (fr.)	Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00157	Frederick Powell	May 1898	F.	Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00158	Percival Vaughan	August 1898	F. (fr.)	Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00159	Mr Cyril Witherington	August 1898	F.	Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00160	Dr Penelope Hawkridge	November 1898	F.	Submitted, in 1922, the only known motion to be carried unanimously without amendment in the Society's history; the matter was a one-line condemnation of the use of "irregardless".
00161	Mrs Augusta Tewkesbury	November 1898	F.	Refused, in 1923, to be sworn in as a juror until the oath had been corrected. The clerk read the oath as proposed; Mrs Tewkesbury identified three grammatical infelicities; the clerk read it again with the corrections; Mrs Tewkesbury identified two further; the matter was put to the judge. The judge, the Hon. Mr Justice Carmichael, is reported to have said: "Mrs Tewkesbury, the oath has been used in this courtroom for one hundred and forty-seven years." To which she is reported to have replied: "Then, my lord, it has been used in error for one hundred and forty-seven years. The Society’s view is that this does not constitute a precedent." She was excused. The trial proceeded. The oath was, the following year, quietly amended; the Society claims credit, though the courts do not.
00162	Frederick Buntley	March 1899	F.
00163	Mr Bartholomew Gresham	April 1899	Life	President during the Second Schism (1924). Rumoured to have written all schismatic correspondence himself — on both sides — to ensure the prose was up to standard.
00164	Mr Clement Morris	July 1899	F. (fr.)	Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00165	Miss Mary Jenkins	March 1900	F.	Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00166	Mr Cassius Wrenfield	April 1900	F.
00167	Mr Cedric Evans	May 1900	Life	Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00168	Mr Edwin Hill	September 1900	Assoc.
00169	Brig. Eustace Sopwith	November 1900	F.	Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00170	Dr Cedric Wetherall	January 1901	Life	Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00171	Mr Cuthbert Marlinspike	March 1901	F.	Shot dead in a robbery on the Mile End Road, 4th November 1908, after declining to surrender his wallet until the thief had corrected his error in the demand "Give it to me or you’re dead". As he lay dying he was heard to say: "…the construction is ungrammatical. The conditional is misplaced. It should be — give it to me, or you are a dead man — the verb taking its proper subject. There is no such construction as ‘or you’re dead’. It is barbarism. It is —" The sentence was not completed. The Society notes that the thief was apprehended within the week, and that the arresting officer’s charge sheet was, on Marlinspike’s posthumous instruction, returned for correction. The corrected sheet survives in the archive. Marlinspike died a Fellow in good standing and is annually commemorated on the 4th of November, at which date the Society stands in silence for the duration it would have taken him to complete the correction.
00172	Mr Wilberforce Bramble	May 1901	F.	Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00173	Charles Wilson	July 1901	F.	Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00174	Mr Bertram Wolstencroft	January 1902	F.
00175	Ernest Richardson	February 1902	Life	Submitted forty-seven amendments to the Society's bylaws between 1928 and 1953, each of which corrected a single comma. Forty-two were adopted.
00176	Mr Eustace Shaw	June 1902	Life	Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00177	Miss Letitia Pomeroy	July 1902	Assoc.	Maintained the Society's first index of misused apostrophes on London tradesmen's signage from 1908 to 1939; the index ran to nine bound volumes and was destroyed in the Blitz.
00178	Mr Reginald Hall	December 1902	F. (fr.)	Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00179	Charles Lacey	June 1903	F.	Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00180	Sir Mortimer Bracegirdle	June 1903	Life	Arrested at Buckingham Palace, 11th June 1908, after correcting His Majesty King Edward VII to his face in the matter of a split infinitive uttered at a state dinner. Sir Mortimer is reported to have said: "With respect, Sir, you have neither the right nor the bearing to so address the English language. You do not, on this evidence, deserve to wear the crown." Detained at Bow Street and removed thereafter to Pentonville on a charge of seditious utterance. Died in his cell, 14th August 1908, of pneumonia. The Society remembers him as a hero of our time, and has not, in the years since, conceded the split infinitive in any of its publications. A small bronze plaque in the Society’s anteroom reads simply BRACEGIRDLE — 1908 — He spoke as he was bound to speak.
00181	Miss Verity Watson	December 1903	Assoc.	Embroidered the Society's motto on a kneeler for the parish church, in a tense the vicar queried and the diocese, on referral, upheld.
00182	Maj. Harry Turner	March 1904	F. (fr.)	Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00183	Col. Eustace Montagu	June 1904	F.
00184	Mr Neville Ramsay	August 1904	F. (fr.)	Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00185	Brig. Aloysius Murchison	October 1904	Life	Held the floor for the entirety of the 1923 EGM, the meeting having been called to discuss a single comma in the bylaws; the comma was retained.
00186	The Hon. Evelyn Clatterbuck	February 1905	F.	Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00187	Dr Eustace Jenkins	August 1905	F.	Refused to send telegrams, the medium's economies being "a tax on grammar paid in meaning".
00188	Mrs Rosalind Llewellyn	June 1906	F. (fr.)	Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00189	Sir Edmund Carshalton (the middle)	June 1906	F.	Vice-President of the Society throughout the 1940s. Refused, on principle, the use of regnal numerals in the family style, holding the practice an over-elevation unsuitable for baronets; the consequent Carshalton Question produced points of order at no fewer than forty-one consecutive meetings between 1957 and 1963.
00190	Mrs Verity Patel	July 1906	F.	Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00191	Mr Sidney Ffoulkes	November 1906	F.	Threatened to resign in 1931 over the introduction of carbon-paper for meeting minutes; was prevailed upon to remain on condition that the originals were retained.
00192	Dr Henry Faversham	December 1906	F.	Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00193	Lady Cressida Brunton-Vane	February 1907	F.	President 1928–1934. Refused to accept the typewriter into Society correspondence until 1932.
00194	Mr Theodore Whitcombe	March 1907	F.	Resigned in 1919, citing exhaustion with "the modern manner of speaking"; readmitted in 1924 after a Fellow pointed out that "the modern manner" had itself been condemned by the Society in 1869.
00195	Mr Bertram Lewis	May 1907	Assoc.	Conducted his tailor, his bank, and his dentist onto List II in a single year, each having replied to a correction with a circular. He regarded the listing as a kindness: "They are in good company."
00196	Mr Cecil Harris	June 1907	F. (fr.)	Won his seat on the parish council on the single pledge of repainting the village sign's apostrophe, and resigned it, honour satisfied, the following week.
00197	Percival Jackson	December 1907	F. (fr.)	Denounced the typewriter in 1919 as "a machine for the mass production of confidence". Acquired one in 1934; the denunciation was retyped.
00198	Mr Horace Richardson	April 1908	Assoc.	Read his own obituary, printed prematurely in 1920, and returned it to the newspaper with corrections and the note: "Otherwise accurate, and I look forward to its eventual use." The corrected text ran, in time, unaltered.
00199	Mrs Millicent Faversham	September 1908	Life	Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00200	Prof. Horatio Bowen	November 1908	F.	Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00201	Sir Harry Owens	December 1908	F. (fr.)
00202	Mr Basil Lethbridge	February 1909	F. (fr.)	Objected to the telephone on the ground that it transmits the voice but not the punctuation, and is therefore a partial truth.
00203	Mr Cyril Silverstein	March 1909	F. (fr.)	Halted the AGM of 1918 on a point of order concerning the order in which points of order are to be taken. The meeting did not recover.
00204	Mr Cecil Lewis	April 1909	F.	Kept his accounts, his diary, and his temper, in that order, and lost only the third, annually, at the reading of the OED's new entries.
00205	Wilfred Sackville	August 1909	F. (fr.)
00206	Capt. Harvey Pinch-Bracewell	November 1909	F.	Once interrupted a Fellow's funeral oration to correct the deceased's middle name; the family is understood to have written.
00207	Mr Frederick Featherstone	March 1910	Life	Author of the Society's 1949 monograph "On the Loss of the Vocative", which runs to 263 pages and which no Fellow is reliably reported to have read in full.
00208	Mr Edwin Scott	July 1910	Life
00209	Prof. Lilian Jones	September 1910	F.	Held the floor at the 1956 EGM until he had read the entirety of his prepared remarks, despite the meeting having been adjourned in his eleventh minute. The remarks survive in the archive.
00210	Basil Thomas	February 1911	Life	Demanded a recount of a unanimous vote, on the principle that unanimity is precisely the condition under which error passes unexamined.
00211	Miss Euphemia Bulstrode	May 1911	F.	Founding member, Sub-committee on the Apostrophe (1931).
00212	Mrs Beatrice Lockyer	May 1911	F.	Once tabled a motion to reduce the number of points of order permitted in any single meeting; the motion was itself ruled out of order, on a point of order, raised by herself.
00213	Rev. Wilberforce Fotheringham	June 1911	F.	Objected, in 1918, to the minuting of an objection, on the ground that the objection had itself been out of order. Both objections were minuted.
00214	Dame Annie Wetherby	August 1911	F.	Conducted her entire courtship by correspondence, declining to meet until the suitor's letters had achieved three consecutive faultless pages. They were married forty-one years.
00215	John Smith	April 1912	Assoc.	Identity never verified. Subscription paid in cash until 1923.
00216	Mr Arthur Duncan	September 1912	F.	Challenged the quorum of every meeting attended between 1927 and 1942, including three at which the challenge itself established the quorum.
00217	Mr Wilfred Standing	October 1912	F. (fr.)
00218	Stanley Ffoulkes	February 1913	F.	Moved, in 1921, that all motions be submitted in writing seven days in advance; the motion was submitted from the floor, and failed on its own terms.
00219	Henry O'Callaghan	August 1913	Life	Ruled, while briefly in the chair in 1926, that the chair could not rule on its own rulings; the ruling stands, and has never been ruled upon.
00220	Miss Nellie Edwards	September 1913	F.	Resigned the Chair of the Membership Committee in 1934 on the grounds that her own admission letter had contained a split infinitive, which she had only that week noticed. The resignation was refused.
00221	Dr Ernest Prout	September 1913	F.	Required the Secretary to read the previous minutes twice at every meeting, the first reading being, on principle, insufficiently attended to.
00222	Dr Cornelius Frampton	February 1914	F.	Author of the 1922 monograph "On the Decline of the Subjunctive in Public Life", which was reviewed favourably in The Times and entered the Society's archive marked "to be replied to". No reply has yet been entered.
00223	Prof. Cuthbert Vellacott	March 1914	F.	Author of the Society’s standing motto for the use of "comprise". Prof. Vellacott held that "the whole comprises the parts; the parts compose the whole; the construction ‘is comprised of’ is, and remains, a barbarism". His personal motto, inscribed on the bookplate of every volume in his library and on his gravestone in Highgate, was Pars in toto, totum in partibus (the part in the whole; the whole in the parts). The Society adopted the motto for the Hyphenation Sub-committee in 1947. The Sub-committee has not, since adoption, conducted business.
00224	Norman Thompson	June 1914	F.	Insisted that all amendments be themselves amendable, to a depth the Society eventually fixed, by amendment, at four.
00225	Miss Doris Whistle	August 1914	F.	Resigned from the Mothers' Union over the apostrophe in its name, on a position paper the Union declined to read; founded a rival body, correctly punctuated, with no other members.
00226	Mr George Scroggins	March 1915	F.	Declined to second any motion without first reading it aloud, backwards, "to check the construction from both ends".
00227	Miss Winifred Thrale	June 1915	Assoc.	Resigned in 1927 in protest at the President's adoption of a typewriter; readmitted in 1939 on the President's death.
00228	Mrs Edith McGregor	January 1916	Life	Marked her children's school reports and returned them to the school, graded. Two of the masters wrote back; one, in time, joined the Society; the other emigrated.
00229	Baroness Doris Wolstencroft	March 1916	F. (fr.)	Was asked, at the 1925 AGM, whether she ever tired of correcting. Replied that she could not tire of breathing either, and resumed both.
00230	Mr Geoffrey Dewhurst	November 1916	F.	Held that a show of hands must specify which hand, and obtained, in 1921, a standing ruling to that effect. The right.
00231	Mr Reginald Wycherley	December 1916	F.	Tabled a motion of thanks to the Chair in 1930, then opposed it on discovering a comma at fault in the wording, which was, regrettably, also the Chair's.
00232	Alan Foster	October 1917	Life
00233	Sir Hereward Coxon	November 1917	Life	Held the post of Society Treasurer from 1924 to 1968, throughout which time he refused to acknowledge the existence of the Antipodean Chapter, despite that body not having been formed until 2019.
00234	Dr Alan Bramble	March 1918	F.
00235	Mr John Hill	July 1918	Assoc.	Adjourned a meeting, as acting Chair, mid-sentence — the sentence being judged unsalvageable — and reconvened it on a fresh construction.
00236	Mr Eric Munro	February 1919	Life	Maintained that apologies for absence must be apologised for if late, and obtained the Society's only known apology-for-an-apology ruling.
00237	Prof. Millicent Dauntry	March 1919	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in October 1944 in recognition of her tireless enforcement of the 1903 standing order requiring all references to authors to be footnoted in their entirety; barred from meetings on the same grounds, the Society having been unable otherwise to conclude an item of business since 1938.
00238	Mr Bernard O'Brien	June 1920	F. (fr.)	Wrote to the BBC in its first year of broadcasting, beginning a correspondence on the pronunciation of "controversy" the BBC describes internally, the Society understands, as "the controversy".
00239	Mr Ezra Quinton	July 1920	F.	Maintained, in writing, that the verb "to type" was a vulgarism, until 1971, at which date he conceded the point in a typed letter.
00240	Sir Norman Ashworth	December 1921	Assoc.	Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00241	Mrs Florence Stourton	February 1922	Life	Donated, in her will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00242	Frederick Evans	August 1922	Life	Raised the same point of order at forty consecutive meetings. It was upheld at the forty-first, on the Chair's view that the matter had matured.
00243	Mrs Adelaide Pemberton	September 1922	F. (fr.)	Resigned upon discovering a comma splice in her own admission letter from twelve years prior; the resignation was accepted, the comma splice having been overlooked at the time.
00244	Mr Bartholomew Coombs	February 1923	F.	Curator throughout the Buckinghamshire Interlude (1940–1945); de facto head of the Kingsmoor Office and editor of the four issues of the Kingsmoor Quarterly. The Curator’s note appended to the Misfiling Incident of 1944 reads, in full: "All present and correct, after a period of unusual delay."
00245	Mr Alan Matheson	March 1923	Assoc.	Refused to vote by acclamation, on the grounds that enthusiasm is not a number.
00246	Miss Prudence Wakefield	June 1923	F.	First Fellow to insist on the Oxford comma in the Society's bylaws. Resignation threatened twice; both times rescinded, both times in the same letter.
00247	Mr James Bethers	November 1923	F.	Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00248	Prof. Geoffrey Walker	March 1924	F.	Resigned in 1964 over the use of "workshop" as a verb in the Annual Programme; the Society notes that no Fellow attempted to dissuade him.
00249	Sir Edmund Carshalton (the younger)	March 1924	F.	Author of the 1923 monograph On the Audibility of the Apostrophe, which had concluded that the apostrophe was beyond the reach of the human voice, and on the publication of which he ceased to address the Society in spoken word. He broke his silence on 24th October 1962, in support of the Audibility Resolution; he resumed it immediately after his speech, and did not break it again.
00250	Anaru Rapata	November 1924	Assoc.	Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00251	Lt-Col. Crispin Outerbridge	December 1924	Life	Refused, on principle, to be addressed by his Christian name in Society correspondence; the Secretary's failure to comply, in 1937, prompted a four-year refusal to attend meetings, lifted only on the Secretary's retirement.
00252	William Strachan	January 1925	Assoc.	Founded the Working Party on Redundancy in 1932, and a second, identical Working Party in 1949, having mislaid the first.
00253	Mr Cyril Patel	October 1925	Life	Convened the Sub-committee on the Ellipsis in 1935; chaired it until 1956; published nothing. The Sub-committee's records end, fittingly, mid-
00254	Stanley Yardley	November 1925	F.	Sole member, from 1934, of the Committee on Brevity, whose terms of reference run to nineteen pages.
00255	Mr Henry Colquhoun	March 1926	F.
00256	Mrs Olivia Cleaverhouse-Brougham	March 1926	F.	Grand-niece of Lady Felicity Brougham. Offered Kingsmoor Hall, Buckinghamshire, as the wartime home of the Society’s archive (1940–1945); supervised the moving of approximately 14,000 volumes over three weekends in autumn 1940, by a small team of Fellows.
00257	Mr Lionel Faraday	April 1926	F.
00258	Mr Norman Harringay	June 1926	Assoc.	Chaired the Standing Committee on the Interrobang from 1937 to 1954. The Committee's sole resolution: that the matter is not yet ripe.
00259	Prof. Reginald Palmer	August 1927	F.	Served on the Tautology Sub-committee, the Sub-committee on Tautology, and the Joint Committee on the Merger of the Two.
00260	Baroness Kavita Krishnan	March 1928	F. (fr.)	Maintained that her tombstone should read "She is not gone; she is non-restrictive", and that the comma before the clause be cut deep enough to outlast the name. It was, and has.
00261	Mr Leonard Gordon	May 1928	F.	Convened, in 1934, the Panel on the Future of the Footnote. The Panel's report (1948) consists entirely of footnotes to a text it did not write.
00262	Dame Cecily Hatherleigh	August 1928	Foundation	Held the floor at the 1939 AGM for two hours and eleven minutes on the subject of the proper use of the comma in lists of three; the meeting subsequently adopted her position by acclamation, the alternative being a further hearing.
00263	Mr Llewellyn Penrhyn	September 1928	F.	In the chair at the Twelfth Extraordinary General Meeting of 24th October 1962, on which occasion he proposed and carried the Audibility Resolution. His remark — "Punctuation is the most important part of the language. The apostrophe is a punctuation mark. The apostrophe must therefore be the most audible part of the word in which it occurs. The matter is not, on this view, contestable." — is engraved on the lintel above the door of the Society’s principal meeting room.
00264	Miss Marjorie Bailey	January 1929	F.	Kept the Society's visitors' book, and beside it a second book, unlabelled, into which the visitors' book's errors were copied each evening. The second book is the thicker.
00265	Rev. Douglas Quinn	February 1929	F.	Secretary, from 1937, to the Committee on Lost Correspondence, whose own minutes for the period are lost.
00266	Maj. Crispin Tarrant, MC	August 1929	Life	Decorated for valour at Passchendaele. On the question of why a man of such evident bravery had also corrected three officers’ battlefield reports during a single offensive, Major Tarrant is reported to have said: "A misplaced apostrophe in a despatch is a worse enemy than the German. The German will, in time, withdraw. The apostrophe will not." The Society holds the remark to be the finest articulation of its purpose in the modern era. The remark is printed, in 14-point Caslon, above the door of the Society’s rooms.
00267	Mr Walter Hambleton	October 1929	Assoc.	Donated the lectern still in use at the Annual General Meeting. Reputedly carved by his uncle, who was not a Fellow.
00268	Mr Elias Penrith	March 1930	F.	Drafted a letter of resignation seven times between 1947 and 1962, each time citing a different grievance; on each occasion withdrew the letter at the next meeting after a private conversation with the Secretary.
00269	Miss Margaret Duncan	October 1930	F.	Returned her jury summons corrected, three times, until the Crown's third reissue arrived faultless, whereupon she served, and was elected forewoman on the strength of the correspondence.
00270	Sister Jean Whistle	March 1931	Life	Wrote her own entry for this Register, in advance, in the third person, and lodged it with the Curator sealed. It was opened on her death and printed unaltered, this sentence excepted.
00271	Mr Eric King	August 1931	Life
00272	Miss Jocasta Wakelin	September 1931	Assoc.	The Society's first Fellow to be admitted, struck off, and readmitted three times in the same week, in March 1955; the Curator's marginal note reads "the matter is now considered settled".
00273	Mr Alan Quibb	October 1931	F. (fr.)	Author, 'A Short History of the Colon' (1956).
00274	Mrs Gladys Nethercott	May 1932	F.	Author, 'Against the Split Infinitive' (1959).
00275	Miss Doris Featherstone	October 1932	F. (fr.)
00276	Brig. Harry Teasdale	January 1933	F.	Held that the wireless should be referred to as "the wireless telegraph", in full, and was still doing so when the television arrived to make the position untenable in a new direction.
00277	James Cavendish	October 1933	Assoc.	Drafted the terms of reference for eleven sub-committees; sat on none of them, holding that the drafting was the work.
00278	Mrs Evelyn Buchanan	December 1933	F. (fr.)	Maintained her grandmother's recipe book as a critical edition, with apparatus, the variant readings of "a handful" being, in her view, "the family's real inheritance".
00279	Rev. Dr Caspar Threlfall	February 1934	F.
00280	The Hon. Beryl Walsh	April 1934	F.	Chaired the Sub-committee on the Diaeresis from 1944 until its discharge in 1960, "the naïve and the coöperative having, in the interval, declined together".
00281	Dr Algernon Tipping	May 1934	F.	Maintained, against considerable resistance, that "octopuses" is preferable to "octopi". The Society now agrees.
00282	Reginald Davis	June 1934	F. (fr.)	Corresponded with the Meteorological Office from 1938 to 1961 on whether weather "happens" or "occurs". The Office, in the end, conceded "obtains".
00283	Col. Eric Sackville	September 1934	F. (fr.)	Convened the Working Group on the Proper Length of Working Group Names, which see.
00284	Miss Betty Reid	April 1935	F.	Wrote to the Royal Society, quarterly, from 1941, on the hyphen in "self-evident". The correspondence closed in 1957, unresolved, by mutual exhaustion.
00285	Dame Annie Murray	November 1935	F.	Wrote annually to Wisden concerning the phrase "literally run out". Wisden's replies, though prompt, are described in the archive as "unrepentant".
00286	Miss Shanti Mukherjee	December 1935	F.	Declined, in 1943, an invitation to Buckingham Palace, the envelope's address wanting a comma; accepted the reissue; and is the only Fellow whose loyalty and pedantry are cited in the same Palace file.
00287	Prof. Ignatius Carmody	June 1936	F.	Submitted, in 1958, a 92-page paper on the proper plural of "octopus"; the paper concluded that all three plurals were defensible, which was held to be insufficient.
00288	Dr Henry Harrison	December 1936	Life	Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00289	Mr Eric Honeyfield	March 1937	Life	Conducted, from 1945 to 1968, a correspondence with a railway company on the wording of "alight here". The company's final position: passengers had, on the whole, alighted.
00290	Mrs Rosalind Tankerville	May 1937	Assoc.	Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb "to impact".
00291	Capt. Robert Vane	November 1937	Assoc.	Wrote to the Ordnance Survey, beginning 1944, on an apostrophe in a Dorset hamlet's name. The hamlet has since been renamed; the Society claims no credit, in writing.
00292	Mr Hubert Pemberton	January 1938	Assoc.	Held that "aggravate" meant only "to make worse". Outvoted, but unmoved.
00293	Mr Henry Pearce	May 1938	F.	Wrote the Society’s 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in "Hello, John."
00294	Mr Galahad Truscott	November 1938	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 1956 in protest at the introduction of the postcode; readmitted in 1971 after a private apology from the Postmaster-General, which the Society had not requested but accepted.
00295	Mr Geoffrey O'Sullivan	December 1938	Assoc.	Pursued the General Synod, from 1947 to 1963, on a comma in the marriage service. The comma was removed; the Synod did not say why; the Society knows why.
00296	Prof. Edward Johnston	June 1939	F.	Maintained a correspondence with the Patent Office on whether an idea may be "fully unique". The Office granted the patent; the Society regards the patent as void.
00297	Norman Lee	February 1940	F.	Engaged the Bank of England, from 1948, on the wording "I promise to pay the bearer". The Bank's position is unchanged; so, the archive notes, is the Society's.
00298	Miss Muriel Williams	May 1940	F.	Wrote to a tobacconist on the Strand, weekly, from 1946 to 1959, regarding the sign "Cigarette's". The sign outlived the correspondence, the tobacconist, and the shop.
00299	Miss Vera Colquhoun	June 1940	Life	Corresponded with Somerset House on the punctuation of death certificates, on the ground that the final document of a life ought not to contain a splice.
00300	Mr Ambrose Whitwell	April 1941	F.	Convened the Sub-committee on Wartime Usage in 1942 and continued to do so until 1979, the Sub-committee having outlived the war by thirty-four years.
00301	Maj. Ravi Chowdhury	June 1941	F. (fr.)	Fellow, Committee on Usage, 1961–1969.
00302	Rev. Robert Clatterbuck	July 1941	F.	Seconded a motion in 1954 and spoke against it in the same breath, holding the two functions to be "constitutionally distinct".
00303	Mr Raymond Digby	December 1941	Life	Submitted a paper against the parenthesis (in 1950) (it was well received) (the irony was not raised) (in the meeting).
00304	Mr James Collins	October 1942	F.	Voted for the 1953 motion on brevity at the conclusion of a forty-minute speech in its favour.
00305	Miss Honoria Lacey	September 1943	Assoc.	Spent eleven years compiling a card-index of split infinitives in The Times, abandoned in 1985 on the grounds that the project had become disheartening.
00306	Prof. Reginald Kettlewell	April 1944	F. (fr.)	Campaigned against the exclamation mark for thirty years. The campaign's files are marked, in the campaigner's own hand, "URGENT!".
00307	George Feverstone	September 1944	Assoc.	Proposed, in 1958, that the Society abandon Latin mottoes, in a paper titled "Ceterum censeo".
00308	Capt. Ian MacDonald	January 1945	Assoc.	Abstained from every vote on principle, and from one vote, in 1955, on a different principle, which the minutes were unable to capture.
00309	Dr Bertram Quill	January 1945	F.	Author of the Society's 1961 paper "On the Pernicious Spread of the Indefinite Article", which proposed the adoption of a specific marker for indefiniteness in English; the proposal was politely set aside.
00310	Prof. Leslie Walsh	July 1945	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2005 in protest at the Society's standing arrangement with a printer who used straight quotes; declined re-admission on the same grounds in 2008, 2012, and 2019.
00311	Mr Jeremy Edwards	February 1946	Assoc.	Denounced the semicolon as "a comma with ambitions"; was thereafter unable to write a sentence without one; the archive holds the correspondence; it is all like this.
00312	Mr Tristram Lee	July 1946	F.	Wrote the Society's definitive paper against redundancy, in two volumes.
00313	Prof. Christine ffrench	November 1946	Assoc.	Insisted upon the lower-case "ff" in her surname and submitted forty-two corrections to the Society's correspondence on the matter between 1947 and 1989.
00314	Dame Celia Beauchamp	April 1947	Assoc.	Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984.
00315	Mr Ronald Weiss	April 1947	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 1956 over the Secretary's pronunciation of "schedule"; readmitted in 1958 on the Secretary's undertaking to avoid the word in company.
00316	Mrs Henrietta Foulkes	June 1947	F. (fr.)	Held the Society's record for resignations in a single year (eleven, in 1962); each resignation was subsequently retracted, and each retraction was minuted as a separate item.
00317	Mrs Susan Cooper	July 1947	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 1959 over the seating plan at the Annual Dinner; readmitted in 1960, seated identically, satisfied that the matter had at least been minuted.
00318	Capt. Roderick Bligh	August 1947	Life	Survived the Crete campaign with the Society's Compendium of Errors in his pack. The volume, water-damaged, remains in the archive.
00319	Mr Richard Smith	November 1947	Assoc.	Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00320	Mrs Catherine Fitzgerald	January 1948	Assoc.	Resigned in 1956 when the tea was served at three minutes past four; readmitted in 1958 after the kettle, not the Treasurer, was found to be at fault.
00321	Miss Dorothea Lambourne	February 1948	Assoc.	Maintained, throughout the post-war period, a private campaign against the spread of the verb "to finalise". Her final words to her solicitor, dictated in 1971 in respect of her will, were: "You may complete the document. You may conclude it. You may not finalise it. If you do, I shall haunt you." The will was completed. The solicitor reports that he has not, in the half-century since, used the offending verb. The Society notes the discipline.
00322	Mr Cyril Bodkin	March 1948	Assoc.
00323	Mr Geoffrey Partington	March 1948	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 1963 over the typeface of the agenda; readmitted in 1964 when it was established that the offending sample had been a printer's error, as alleged.
00324	Miss Brenda Collins	May 1948	Life	Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00325	Sir Bartholomew Hesketh	October 1948	Life	Refused, in 1953, to acknowledge the existence of the radio; refused, in 1969, to acknowledge the existence of the television; was prevailed upon to acknowledge the telephone in 1978, on condition of its being referred to as "the telephone" in full.
00326	Mrs Phoebe Edwards	November 1948	Assoc.
00327	Mrs Mary Ashworth	January 1949	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00328	Miss Helen Murray	May 1949	F.	Resigned in 1959 over the width of the margins in the Quarterly Statement; readmitted in 1961, the margins unaltered, the principle established.
00329	Col. Trevor Russell	November 1949	Life	Resigned in 1960 on the introduction of numbered agenda items, "numbers being no substitute for order"; readmitted in 1963 under item 4.
00330	Maj. Peter Young	November 1949	F. (fr.)	Maintained a card-index of every "whom" misused in the Society's presence. The index survives; the guilty are identified by initials only, which all Fellows can expand.
00331	Prof. Maud Blandford	March 1950	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in May 1973 in recognition of her sustained insistence on the strict observance of the 1923 ruling that all Society votes be conducted by raised hand and counted twice; barred from meetings, the Society having found itself unable to conclude a vote in her presence since 1968.
00332	Mr Rajesh Das	April 1950	F. (fr.)	Reviewed the Society's first television appearance (1959) for the Quarterly Statement, in one sentence: "The medium does not take corrections."
00333	Miss Jemima Throckmorton	April 1950	Assoc.
00334	Mr Jonathan Urquhart	March 1951	F.	Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00335	Mr Derek Clatterbuck	June 1951	F.	Compiled the Society's register of Misleading Book Titles, opening with a celebrated novel that is neither brief nor a history of time as the Society understands either term.
00336	Tristram Ramsay	August 1951	Assoc.	Indexed the Society's library by first error rather than by author. The system is unusable and has never been replaced, being too accurate.
00337	Mr Roderick Trant	August 1951	F.	Resigned in 1964 over the use of "hopefully" as a sentence adverb in the Annual Programme; the Society notes that the usage had been inadvertent and that the offending word had since been replaced by "it is to be hoped that".
00338	Dr Celia White	February 1952	Assoc.	Maintained the Society's list of Acceptable Puns. On the latest review the list contains one entry, and a note that the entry is under review.
00339	Dr Nigel Vaughan	March 1952	Life	Kept a tally of the Chair's split infinitives, displayed at each meeting in a small brass frame, without comment, facing the chair.
00340	Sir Anthony Nesbitt	September 1952	F. (fr.)
00341	Mrs Cordelia Saltonstall	January 1953	Life	Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00342	Miss Constance Eckersley	April 1953	F.	Once corrected a Fellow's tombstone inscription, in pencil, at the funeral. The widow has not commented for the record.
00343	Jeremy Murray	December 1953	F. (fr.)
00344	Miss Patience Coverdale	December 1953	Assoc.	The Society's first Associate Fellow to be admitted by telegram; the telegram contained a typographical error, which she successfully argued was the telegraphist's, and was admitted on the corrected reading.
00345	Sir Theodore Pomfret	April 1954	F. (fr.)	Catalogued the errors in the Society's own catalogue, producing a second catalogue, now itself under review by a third.
00346	Baroness Linda Lewis	August 1954	F. (fr.)	Recorded, for 1965 alone, 1,214 public misuses of "decimate", of which, fittingly, one in ten was pursued by letter.
00347	Mr Jasper Wedderburn	April 1955	F.	Submitted nine letters to the Society Secretary in 1981 protesting the use of "input" as a verb. The Secretary responded once.
00348	Prof. Susan Lewis	July 1955	F.	Corrected the inscription on a public fountain in 1963, by letter to the borough, the mason, and, the first two failing, the donor's widow. The widow paid for the recutting.
00349	Mrs Penelope Harris	November 1955	Assoc.	Kept the Society's register of Words Lost to Commerce, opening it, in 1961, with "artisan", and closing it, much later, with "curated", by then unable to say why.
00350	Mrs Henrietta Frome	June 1956	F.	Compiled the Society's first index of split infinitives in published works (3 vols., 1962–1971). Mother of Dr Ottilie Frome.
00351	Jeremy Pembroke	June 1956	Life	Corrected a bishop's pastoral letter, in 1968, on the use of "enormity" for "immensity"; the bishop's reply conceded the grammar and disputed the theology.
00352	Dr Helena Bristow	September 1956	F. (fr.)	Resigned the Vice-Presidency in 1972 over a misplaced apostrophe in a notice of meeting; was reinstated by the same notice's reissue, with the apostrophe corrected, the following day.
00353	Miss Janet Wodehouse	October 1956	F.	Returned an OBE nomination form to the Cabinet Office, ungraded but corrected, with the note "see me".
00354	Brig. Michael Collins	December 1956	Assoc.	Wrote to the College of Arms on a misplaced apostrophe in a grant of arms. The College replied that heraldry has no apostrophes. The Society regards the reply as an admission.
00355	Mrs Christine Honeyfield	March 1957	Assoc.
00356	Prof. Jennifer Bethers	April 1957	Assoc.	Corrected the menu at a Lord Mayor's banquet, in pencil, between courses. The corrected menu is in the Guildhall archive; the invitation was not renewed.
00357	Dr Gillian Owens	May 1957	Assoc.	Annotated the local hymnal so thoroughly that the parish reprinted it. The vicar's covering note to the printer — "as marked, all of it" — is framed in the basement library.
00358	Brig. Anselm Dorrington	February 1958	Life	Held a thirty-year correspondence with the BBC on the pronunciation of "Caribbean"; the BBC, in 1989, conceded that both pronunciations were defensible, which he held to be a defeat.
00359	Rev. Robert Fraser	May 1958	F. (fr.)
00360	Dr Hubert Stanthwaite	June 1958	F.	Convened, in 1969, the only Society meeting ever to be held in Latin. The meeting was attended by seven Fellows; conducted in Latin throughout; and produced one motion, of three Latin words: Punctuatio est virtus (punctuation is a virtue). Carried, 7–0. The Society has since regarded the motion as standing. Stanthwaite’s personal Latin motto, embroidered on his Society gown and inscribed on his desk, was Sine puncto, sine fine (without the full stop, without an end).
00361	Maj. Robert Green	July 1958	Assoc.	Corrected the foundation stone of a public library before the mortar set, by arrangement with a sympathetic stonemason. The error survives in the architect's drawings only.
00362	Mr Bertram Hogarth	September 1958	Assoc.	Known to all as Bert. The Society notes 56 years of upstanding service and the donation of his estate. Mr Hogarth was not eligible for Life Fellowship as he spent eight days in 1972 as a Fellow of the breakaway Society of Pedants, before his understanding evolved and he returned to us.
00363	The Hon. Ronald ffrench	October 1958	F. (fr.)	Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00364	Mr Norman Buntley	February 1959	Life	Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00365	Mr Wilberforce Catton	June 1959	F.	Held the floor at the 1968 EGM until the meeting was adjourned in his fourth hour; the matter under discussion was the proper position of the apostrophe in "1960s", which the Society has not since revisited.
00366	Rev. Barry Witherington	July 1959	F.	Holder of the Chair of Prescriptive Grammar.
00367	Maj. Ronald Phillips	May 1960	F. (fr.)	Recipient, Haversham Medal for Services to Punctuation, 1988.
00368	Miss Hester Parrish	July 1960	F.	Sent The Times a correction of its own correction, in 1970. The second correction was printed. The Society regards the episode as its principal modern victory over the press.
00369	Mrs Pearl Verwood	October 1960	F.	Maintained, throughout her Fellowship, a private register of the Society's own typographical errors; the register, on her death in 1998, ran to 4,217 entries, of which fewer than thirty had been notified to the Secretary.
00370	Amit Dasgupta	June 1961	F. (fr.)	Author of a paper proving that "very unique" is impossible, and of a sequel conceding that it is, regrettably, very common.
00371	Mr Nitin Ray	June 1961	F.	Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00372	Mr Neil Buchanan	August 1961	F.	Resigned from three sub-committees in 1991 on a single morning, each by separate letter, each citing a different misplaced comma in the agenda papers.
00373	Mrs Saraswati Menon	August 1961	F.	Author of "The Comma: a Defence" (1973), and of "The Comma: a Second Defence" (1988), the first defence having been, in the author's view, insufficiently defended.
00374	Mrs Judith Thorneycroft	February 1962	Assoc.	Wrote the Society's standard work on the hyphen, in two parts, the parts disagreeing on whether "standard work" requires one.
00375	Mr Cosmo Larking	March 1962	F. (fr.)
00376	Capt. Keith Jervoise	November 1962	F.	Wrote the entry on "pedant" for a popular encyclopaedia, in 1972; the editors cut it from nine pages to a paragraph, and the paragraph, on inspection, to a definition of the editors.
00377	Mr Wilfred Marchbank	November 1962	Life	President 1985–1991. Banned the word "gotten" from Society publications during his tenure; the prohibition was quietly restored under his successor.
00378	Mr Terence Verney	November 1962	Assoc.	Published, in 1973, a pamphlet against pamphleteering. It went to three printings.
00379	Mr Reginald Zouche	December 1962	F. (fr.)	Author of "On Restraint in Punctuation" (1970); the manuscript, the Curator notes, is unpunctuated, the restraint having been total.
00380	Mr Roderick Gatacre	April 1963	F. (fr.)	Objected, in 1972, to the phrase "high tea" as applied to the Society's four o'clock service, on grounds of altitude.
00381	Mr Alaric Macnamara	June 1963	Assoc.	Proposed that the Society's biscuits be standardised; the resulting Schedule of Permitted Biscuits (1974) remains in force, and remains, on the question of the Garibaldi, silent.
00382	Miss Verity Hassall	September 1963	Assoc.	Resigned in 1979 in protest at the Society's adoption of a stapler; readmitted in 1984 on the discovery that the stapler had not, in fact, been used.
00383	Mrs Anne Ross	November 1963	F. (fr.)	Author of the Society's ruling on "none is" versus "none are", which permits both and satisfies no one, and is therefore regarded as constitutionally perfect.
00384	Roger Pritchard	February 1964	F.	Measured the meeting room in 1971 and found it eleven inches narrower than the lease describes. The discrepancy is raised annually, under any other business, and deferred.
00385	Miss Carol Baker	August 1964	Assoc.	Kept the key to the tea cabinet for thirty-one years and surrendered it, on retirement, with an inventory accurate to the half-spoon.
00386	Dr Neil Quibb	January 1965	Assoc.	Declined a legacy of £400 in 1974 because the will contained a dangling participle, holding that one cannot inherit from a sentence with no subject.
00387	Mr Selwyn Quill	March 1965	F. (fr.)	Refused, throughout his Fellowship, to acknowledge the gerund-participle distinction; the Society allowed it as a personal eccentricity.
00388	Rev. Barry Brady	April 1965	F.	Challenged the Annual Dinner's toast list in 1973, on the ground that "the Language" cannot be toasted in the accusative. The toast is now proposed in the vocative, to be safe.
00389	Dr Maxim Pertwee	May 1965	F.	Author of the Society's 1971 standing objection to the verb "to access"; the objection has been reissued, with minor revisions, in every subsequent decade.
00390	Miss Maureen Phillips	September 1965	F.	Read the entire OED, in order, as a protest against its contents. The protest took eleven years and was, on completion, renewed.
00391	Col. Vijay Iyer	November 1965	F. (fr.)	Trained a parrot to say "fewer". The parrot is mentioned in three sets of minutes, twice favourably.
00392	Col. Jeremy Evans	June 1966	F.	Refused anaesthetic in 1973 until the consent form's subordinate clauses had been re-set. The surgeon's account of the matter is in the archive, donated by the surgeon.
00393	Mr Neil Fitzgerald	October 1966	F.	Maintained, against considerable evidence, that "data" remains plural in all registers, and corrected the Society's website accordingly until access was withdrawn in 2014.
00394	Mr Keith Winstanley	November 1966	F.	Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00395	Prof. Daphne Underhill	November 1966	F.	Held the Society's record for the longest single sentence ever submitted to its archive: 4,217 words, in a 1989 paper on the misuse of the semicolon; the sentence was, the Curator notes, grammatically correct throughout.
00396	Miss Margaret Connolly	April 1967	Assoc.	Returned every Christmas card received, corrected, by Boxing Day, for forty years. The volume of cards received did not, the Curator notes, decline. People are strange.
00397	Mrs Joan Macnamara	August 1967	F.	Resigned in 2012 over a hyphen omitted from the Society's masthead; the omission had stood since 1958, but he was the first Fellow to notice it in writing.
00398	Mr Clive Baker	October 1967	F.	Wore, at every AGM, a small badge reading "ASK ME ABOUT THE SUBJUNCTIVE". No Fellow ever has. The badge is now in the archive, its question open.
00399	Mr Roy Wigglesworth	March 1968	Life	Played, in the Society's 1982 cricket match against the Philological Society, an innings of 0 not out across two hours, described in the minutes as "defensively flawless, like good prose".
00400	Mr Ernest Castelnau	April 1968	Life	Convened the Society's Committee on Modern Usage in 1971 and chaired it until 2002, at which date the Committee was discharged without report; the discharge was minuted in twelve words, which Mr Castelnau is understood to have considered a slight.
00401	Lance Bethers	May 1968	F.	Carried, at all times, a small card reading "I am not lost; I am considering the signage." The card is preserved.
00402	Dr Ottilie Frome	May 1968	F.	Continued her mother's index of split infinitives. The fourth volume is understood to be forthcoming.
00403	The Hon. Derek Ogilvy	August 1968	F. (fr.)	Named a racehorse "Whom". The horse failed to place; the announcements, however, were universally correct, which had been the object.
00404	Mr Edmund Carshalton	August 1968	Assoc.	The fourth Edmund Carshalton in the Society’s records (no baronetcy, the title having lapsed). Admitted on his father’s death in 1968. Has not, in fifty-seven years of Fellowship, raised a point of order. The Society notes the discipline.
00405	Maj. Brian Yardley	September 1968	Assoc.	Left the Society a bequest contingent on the bequest's wording surviving probate unamended. It did not. The Society regards the failed bequest as the truer gift.
00406	Mr Norman Powell	February 1969	Assoc.	Donated the anteroom's barometer, which is accurate, and its label, "SET FAIR, FOR NOW", which the Society regards as the more reliable instrument.
00407	Miss Deirdre Thomas	February 1969	F. (fr.)	Was once asked, by a stranger on the Underground, whether it mattered. Replied: "It is the only thing that does, and the only thing that doesn't. That is what 'matters' means." The stranger joined.
00408	Mr Jonathan Powell	October 1969	F. (fr.)	Once corrected a sundial. The motto, recut at the donor's expense, now gains a comma as the original gains moss.
00409	Mr Clive Mackay	February 1970	F.	Proposed the Society's telegraphic address, "PRECISION, LONDON", and fought off, in committee, the cheaper "PEDANT".
00410	Mr Geraint Pellew	June 1970	F.	Resigned in 1989 over the introduction of the photocopier; readmitted in 1994 on condition that any photocopied material be marked "(reproduction)" in the Fellow's own hand.
00411	Mr Peter Cook	October 1970	F. (fr.)	Believed the full stop to be "the only punctuation mark with the courage of its convictions", and used semicolons anyway, as one keeps brave friends.
00412	Prof. Iris Sandown	February 1971	Hon.	Honorary Fellowship in recognition of her unilateral campaign against the spread of "literally" as an intensifier.
00413	Prof. Tristram Murray	March 1971	F.	Held the Society's record for the shortest letter of complaint: two words, to a printer, in 1978. The archive declines to repeat them; the printer reset the page.
00414	Ian Patel	June 1971	F. (fr.)	Considered the question mark overused, the full stop underused, and the interrobang a symptom; published on all three, in declarative sentences.
00415	Miss Alison Bowen	October 1971	F. (fr.)	Argued that "etc." is a confession, and ended every list, on principle, completely.
00416	Miss Rosamund Tyrell	October 1971	Assoc.	Submitted, between 1973 and 1991, a series of 162 letters to the Secretary on the proper use of the colon; the Secretary acknowledged each by return.
00417	Miss Penelope Richardson	May 1972	F.	Audited the Society's motto annually for drift, and reported, annually, none. The report is one word long and is read in full.
00418	Dr Gideon Whitstable	March 1973	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in November 1996 in recognition of his unwavering enforcement of the 1947 ruling that the Society's tea be served at precisely 4.00 p.m.; barred from meetings, on the grounds that no meeting had concluded its third item of business before 4.00 p.m. since 1981.
00419	Dr Prunella Thorneycroft	July 1973	F.
00420	Miss Ophelia Trent	August 1973	Assoc.	Forty-one years a copy editor at three London publishing houses. The Society notes the correct deployment of the Oxford comma in her testamentary dispositions.
00421	Mrs Veronica Plimsoll	October 1973	F.	Found dead at her writing-desk on the morning of 12th March 1996, with a half-completed letter to The Times before her. The letter concerned the modern use of "literally" as an intensifier, and broke off mid-sentence: "Sir, — I write again, knowing you will not print this letter, knowing you have not printed any of the seventeen which preceded it, knowing also that the matter is, on the evidence of your sub-editing, beyond your interest, and yet I write because the matter is not, and cannot be, beyond —" The letter was found, completed by another hand, and posted; The Times did not print it, but the editor is understood to have written privately to the family. The letter survives in the Society’s archive, where it is annually read aloud at the AGM, in full and to its abrupt conclusion.
00422	Alaric Grimble	November 1973	Assoc.	Maintained that names of ships take no article, and boarded "Queen Mary" rather than "the Queen Mary" for forty years of correct and lonely embarkations.
00423	Miss Barbara Rhys	April 1974	F.
00424	Prof. Rosemary James	June 1974	F.	Held that "and/or" is a fence with no field, and billed the Society's solicitors, successfully, for the time spent removing it from their drafts.
00425	Mr Andrew Cockburn	July 1974	F. (fr.)	Compiled the Society's only palindromic minute, for the meeting of 1984, which read the same in both directions and was disputed in both.
00426	Mrs Iolanthe Brake	August 1974	F.	Held the floor at the 1981 AGM for the duration of the lunch interval, the meeting having voted to adjourn but Mrs Brake having objected on a point of order; the meeting reconvened with her still speaking.
00427	Brig. Jonathan Clark	November 1974	F. (fr.)	Refereed, in 1986, a dispute between two Fellows over "compare to" and "compare with", and gave the only ruling both accepted: that they should not be compared.
00428	Dr Geoffrey Bramble	February 1975	F.	Endowed the Society's inkwell in perpetuity, on condition the ink be iron-gall, "errors corrected in pencil being errors forgiven".
00429	Mr Kenneth Ashworth	March 1975	F. (fr.)	Opposed the pocket calculator on the principle that delegated arithmetic is the gateway to delegated grammar. The minutes record the argument as "slippery-slope, but well dressed".
00430	The Hon. Tristram Carruthers	June 1975	Assoc.	Proposed that the Society's rebukes be available in Latin "for the recipient who would prefer not to understand at once". The bilingual rebuke remains available, on request.
00431	Miss Barbara Harringay	November 1975	Life	Maintained the Society's weather-eye on the apostrophe trade: greengrocers, signwriters, and, latterly, tattooists, whose errors the Society notes are the hardest to recall for correction.
00432	Mr Cornelius Pegg	February 1976	F.
00433	David Green	April 1976	Life	Founded the Society's loan collection of dictionaries for Fellows travelling abroad, each volume stamped: "PROPERTY OF THE SOCIETY. ERRORS ARE NOT."
00434	Miss Diana Evans	October 1976	F. (fr.)	Considered "very" a loan that prose takes out against meaning, and audited the Quarterly Statement's account of it annually, charging interest.
00435	Miss Barbara Goldberg	October 1976	F. (fr.)	Once submitted twenty-three pages of corrections to a Society newsletter that had been printed in error and never circulated.
00436	Cyril Palmer	November 1976	F. (fr.)	Settled, in 1984, the Society's long dispute over "a historic" versus "an historic" by ruling the event in question insufficiently historic to require either.
00437	Robert Pemberton	March 1977	F. (fr.)	Held the Chair of the Apostrophe Sub-committee during its longest recorded silence (1990–2005), which the Sub-committee regards as its soundest period.
00438	Prof. Rosalind Marchwood	May 1977	F.	The Society's first Fellow to maintain a card-index of misused semicolons in academic publications; the index, on her retirement in 2003, was donated to the Society and remains in the archive, uncatalogued.
00439	Miss Helen Digby	July 1977	Life	Reported, each AGM, on the state of the language, in a single sentence. The sentence has lengthened every year. The Society takes the point.
00440	Miss Janet Lethbridge	July 1977	Assoc.	Argued, in a celebrated paper, that the recipe is the most honest modern prose form, having consequences. The Society's standing rebuke to "drizzle" as a verb followed separately.
00441	Gerald Macintosh	January 1978	F.	Acquired for the archive the Society's only manuscript of Johnson's, a laundry list, and defended the purchase: "It is a list. It is correct. It is the master in small."
00442	Mr Brian Hawkshaw	May 1978	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2016 in protest at the introduction of biscuits at Committee meetings, on the grounds that "the Society does not eat".
00443	The Hon. John King	June 1978	F. (fr.)	Maintained that "presently" means "soon" and lived accordingly, arriving at every meeting of a forty-year Fellowship slightly, and correctly, after it had begun.
00444	Dr Piers Sopwith	August 1978	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's reply to a circular addressed "Dear Sir or Madam": "Dear Neither: we are a Society."
00445	Mr Quentin Ashby	October 1978	F.	Resigned in 1995 in protest at the Society's decision to acquire a fax machine; readmitted in 2002 on the disposal of the same.
00446	The Hon. Roger Marjoribanks	January 1979	F. (fr.)	Established the Society's rule that any Fellow quoting Fowler must state the edition, after the Incident of 1990, in which two Fellows agreed for forty minutes without noticing.
00447	Mr Malcolm Murray	May 1979	Assoc.	Proposed the Society's only sumptuary law: that no Fellow's correspondence exceed the elegance of its corrections. The law is unenforceable and universally observed.
00448	Miss Joan Wright	September 1979	Assoc.	Held that initials in a name take full stops, and fought the modern fashion to the last; the archive's file is labelled, in another hand, "RIP" — and, in the Fellow's, "R.I.P."
00449	Simon Turner	December 1979	F. (fr.)	Editor of the Society's submission to the OED, 3rd edition.
00450	Miss Emmeline Spofford	March 1980	Assoc.	Author of a 1991 paper on the proper position of the apostrophe in "the Joneses' house", which paper was adopted by the Society as definitive and against which no Fellow has lodged an objection.
00451	The Hon. Caroline Price	July 1980	Life	Catalogued the seventeen distinct silences in use at Society meetings, from "considering" to "declining to consider", with notation. Conductors have corresponded.
00452	Sebastian Haverford	September 1980	F. (fr.)	Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00453	Miss Caroline Glendenning	October 1980	Assoc.	Resigned in 2020 in protest at the introduction of name badges at the AGM, having previously argued, in 2019, against the proposal to circulate an attendance list.
00454	Giles Daly	February 1981	F. (fr.)	Won the Society's essay prize of 1993 with "On Knowing When to Stop", which stops mid-
00455	Timothy Foster	March 1981	Assoc.	Maintained that the Society's clock be kept four minutes fast, "the margin by which English is usually wrong", and wound it personally for thirty years.
00456	Mrs Henrietta White	March 1981	F.	Ruled, as acting Curator in 1994, that the archive's mice be served notice in writing. The notice survives, unanswered; the mice, the Curator notes, are on List II.
00457	Mr Reginald Stoat	June 1981	F. (fr.)	Submitted a complete erratum sheet for her own admission letter on the morning following its acceptance. Six items; all conceded.
00458	Dr Peregrine Crowhurst	September 1981	F. (fr.)
00459	Dr Kate Taylor	November 1981	F.	Kept bees, and defended the apostrophe in "bee's knees" against the plural party in a dispute the Quarterly Statement covered across three issues, under "Apiary".
00460	Maj. Rakesh Mukherjee	February 1982	Life	Donated the umbrella stand to the anteroom, with the engraved request that umbrellas be furled "completely; 'mostly furled' is a contradiction in terms". It is the most obeyed sign in the building.
00461	Miss Kate Witherington	April 1982	Life	Withdrew her admission application in 2024 upon discovering a typographical error in the application form; resubmitted in 2025, when the error had been corrected, and was admitted on the original date.
00462	Miss Fiona Thomas	August 1982	F.	Compiled "The Society's Book of Hours": the four o'clock tea, the half-past-four post, the five o'clock correction of the day's tea-time remarks. The volume is used to train new Fellows in the rhythm.
00463	Maj. Anil Singh	March 1983	Life	Persuaded the Society, in 1992, to insure the archive against "acts of God, fire, flood, and well-meaning amendment". The fourth peril is the only one to have produced a claim.
00464	Mr Lachlan Bridewell	April 1983	F.	Held the post of Acting Secretary in 1991 for a period of four hours, before resigning over the formal style of the Society's letterhead, which he had himself designed in 1987.
00465	Miss Helen Abercrombie	June 1983	F.	Held that a postscript is an admission of poor planning, and wrote, in a long Fellowship, none. The archive's note on the achievement is, of course, appended.
00466	Miss Fiona Marshall	March 1984	F.	Argued that the Society's name be entered in directories under "T", for "The", on the ground that the article is not decoration. The Society is hard to find, and correctly listed.
00467	Mrs Ottilie Frampton	July 1984	F.	Maintained, against the unanimous opposition of the Society, that the proper plural of "octopus" is "octopodes"; the Society notes that no Fellow has been able to refute her etymology.
00468	Mrs Rosamund Ffoulkes	November 1984	Life	Standardised the Society's rubber stamps, retiring "RECEIVED" in favour of "RECEIVED, AND READ", the distinction having been found, in 1996, to be load-bearing.
00469	Mr Stephen Renshaw	March 1985	Life	Author of the 1991 paper "Against the Verb ‘to Action’".
00470	Miss Tamsin Russell	July 1985	Assoc.	Returned the Society's first fax, by post, corrected, with a note observing that speed of transmission had not, on the evidence, improved the contents.
00471	The Hon. Michael Llewellyn	October 1985	F. (fr.)
00472	Mr Boniface Kelt	November 1985	F.	Resigned the Chair of the Errors Committee in 1996 over the discovery of a spelling error in his own resignation letter; the resignation was accepted on the corrected text.
00473	Mr John Leveson-Gower	April 1986	F. (fr.)	Wrote the Society's standing advice to new Fellows on dinner-party conduct: "Correct the host once, the guests never, and the menu silently, taking it home."
00474	Mr Tobias Underwood	April 1986	F. (fr.)	The Society’s only known Fellow to have used his last words to coin a new motto. Mr Underwood, dying of a heart attack in the British Library Reading Room on 2nd June 2001, is reported by the librarian on duty to have said: "Tell them — tell them — errare humanum est, corrigere divinum. They will know what to do." The Society did know what to do. The motto was inscribed, in the year following, on the lintel of the new Errors Committee Room at Bedford Square, where it remains.
00475	Miss Cordelia Tristram	March 1987	Assoc.
00476	Miss Emma Meredith	August 1987	F.	Established, by experiment (2001), that a Society meeting expands to fill the points of order available, and proposed rationing. The proposal consumed four meetings.
00477	Christopher Evans	May 1988	Life	Composed the Society's telegraphed condolences, a form so exact it was adopted by two embassies. The Society invoices neither, and mentions it to both.
00478	Prof. Tobias Linwell	June 1988	F.	Author of the 1994 monograph "Against the Verb 'to Access'", which extended the Society's 1971 standing objection to a length the Society had not anticipated; the monograph was filed without further action.
00479	Mr Crispin Fairweather	April 1989	Hon.	Honorary admission for translating the Society's bylaws into Latin, then back, with very few changes detectable.
00480	Mrs Imogen Lewis	July 1989	F.	Devised the Society's filing system, in which a document's position encodes its grammatical standing. Misfiled papers are therefore slanders, and treated as such.
00481	Sir Roderick Catchpole	September 1989	Life	Held the Presidency from 1998 to 2001, during which time he convened forty-one extraordinary meetings; the Curator notes that this remains the modern record.
00482	Prof. Rachel Murphy	November 1989	F.	Served as the Society's delegate to four congresses of learned societies, returning each time with corrections to the conference programme and, once, to the host city's railway signage.
00483	Mrs Petronella Quinch	December 1989	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2004 in protest at the Society's adoption of an email address; readmitted in 2011 on her own discovery that she had been corresponding with the Society by email since 2007.
00484	Mrs Kavita Chowdhury	August 1990	F. (fr.)	Negotiated the Society's standing discount with its stationer, in exchange for proofreading the stationer's catalogue. The catalogue is celebrated in the trade; the discount is 4%.
00485	Dr Quentin Allardyce	October 1990	F.	President 2009–2015. Quietly oversaw the Society's transition to email, against his publicly stated preferences.
00486	Mr Christopher Hughes	October 1990	Life
00487	Mr Dougal McAndrew	February 1991	F.	The first New Zealand-resident Fellow to be elected on the recommendation of an existing Fellow; subsequently a signatory to the 2019 letter of protest preceding the formation of the Antipodean Chapter, but did not himself resign.
00488	Dr Christopher Parker	March 1991	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's sole concession to fashion: the annual review of "words the young are said to be using", conducted at arm's length, with tongs, in 1999 and every year since.
00489	Rev. Peter Abercrombie	August 1991	Life	Counted the words in every Quarterly Statement and reported the figure to the AGM with one comment: "Fewer." The report is the meeting's most popular item.
00490	Baroness Tamsin Hawkshaw	November 1991	F.	Proposed that the minutes record laughter, where it occurred, as "(laughter, [number])", the number being those laughing. The high-water mark, in 2003, is "(laughter, 3)".
00491	Miss Alison Jenkins	November 1991	F.	Brought the Society's only successful motion of censure against a dictionary, the offending edition having defined "pedant" with, in the Society's view, insufficient warmth.
00492	Miss Beatrix Hollander	June 1992	Assoc.	Compiled, between 1994 and 2018, the Society's only known systematic record of misused apostrophes in supermarket signage; the record was discontinued on her observation that "the matter is now hopeless".
00493	Miss Emma Dalrymple	October 1992	Assoc.	Left instructions that any biography be titled "A Life, Corrected", and the estate has defended the title against three publishers who preferred something warmer.
00494	Dr Piers Marshall	May 1993	Assoc.	Was overheard, in the anteroom, explaining the Society to a new Fellow: "We are not angry. We are precise. The two are often confused, usually by the imprecise."
00495	Mrs Hélène Dupont	October 1993	F.	Drafted the Society's advice on quotation: "Quote exactly, or paraphrase honestly; the third way is the press." The press has not requested permission to quote it.
00496	Miss Honora Heskett	October 1993	F. (fr.)	The first Antipodean Fellow to be admitted by correspondence alone, without prior introduction by an existing Fellow; her admission letter, posted from Sydney, took eleven weeks to reach Bedford Square and was, on arrival, found to contain no errors of any kind.
00497	Dr Ferdinand Quayle	October 1993	F. (fr.)	Author of a 2001 paper on the proper use of "due to" versus "owing to"; the paper has been cited, in subsequent Society correspondence, more often than any other internal publication.
00498	Mr Howard Renton	November 1993	Assoc.	Resigned in 2012 over a hyphen omitted from the Society’s masthead; the omission had stood since 1958, but he was the first Fellow to notice it.
00499	Rev. Barnaby Ferguson	December 1993	Assoc.
00500	Mr Andrew Turner	March 1994	Assoc.	Instituted the Society's practice of reading aloud, at each AGM, one error made by the Society itself in the preceding year, "that the diet include humility, in season".
00501	Mrs Tamsin Gwynn	April 1994	F.	Member, 2002 Sub-committee on Electronic Correspondence.
00502	Mr Toby Farrell	July 1994	Assoc.	Held that the Society should keep one error, deliberately, somewhere in its premises, "as the Persians wove flaws". The error's location is known to the Curator alone, who denies everything.
00503	Mr Stephen Leveson-Gower	July 1994	F.	Carved the Society's only piece of furniture, a lectern, with the instruction "STAND CORRECTED" on the reader's side, where only the speaker can see it.
00504	Lt-Col. Andrew Tarrington	February 1995	Life	Established the Society's protocol for disagreeing with the OED: in writing, in sorrow, and in the expectation of being filed.
00505	Prof. Margaret Tothill	February 1995	F.	Resigned 2019. Foundation Vice-President, Antipodean Chapter.
00506	Col. Christopher Byrne	April 1995	F. (fr.)	Printed every email received, corrected it in ink, and posted it back. The practice was much complained of, and is now much missed.
00507	Mr Alexander Roughton	April 1995	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in February 2018 in recognition of his enforcement of the 1962 ruling on the proper duration of the Treasurer's report; barred from meetings, the Society having been unable, in his presence, to conclude the financial item before the bar opened.
00508	David Daly	November 1995	F. (fr.)	Endowed the annual Frostwick Lecture on a topic of the lecturer's choosing, provided the title contain no colon. The condition has disqualified every academic invited since 2006.
00509	Mrs Tamsin Patel	March 1996	F.	Acted as the Society's examiner in elocution, failing, over a long tenure, every candidate, the apostrophe being, in the examiner's hearing, always slightly off.
00510	Mr Crispin Cameron	April 1996	F. (fr.)	Compiled the Society's anthology of perfect sentences, which remains, after long deliberation, empty. The standard is the anthology.
00511	Maj. Giles Thorneycroft	May 1996	F. (fr.)	Drew the Society's only cartoon to appear in the Quarterly Statement: a semicolon, alone on a hill, captioned "Misunderstood". The original hangs in the Treasurer's office.
00512	Mrs Felicia Kettering	August 1996	F.
00513	Mr Rory Price	April 1997	F. (fr.)	Codified the Society's three degrees of disapproval — "noted", "noted with regret", and "minuted" — and lived to see "minuted" enter a legal judgment, uncredited.
00514	Dr Beryl Honeyfield	March 1998	F.	Resigned 2019. Founding President, Antipodean Chapter.
00515	Mr Ignatius Crewe	March 1998	F.	Resigned in 2009 over the introduction of the Society's website; readmitted in 2014 on the website's redesign, which he was invited to consult on, and did not.
00516	Mr Lachlan Whitcomb	September 1998	F.	Held the floor at the 2007 AGM for two hours and eleven minutes on the subject of the Society’s website, the introduction of which he opposed. His peroration, delivered as the meeting tired, has been preserved in the minutes verbatim: "I am not, Mr Chairman, opposed to the future. I am opposed to the present, and I am opposed to it on grounds which I take to be the Society’s own. The internet contains errors. The Society corrects errors. The Society cannot, on either count, contain the internet. We must therefore choose: are we to remain the Society we have been, or are we to become the Society the internet would prefer us to be? I know my own answer. I do not, with respect, propose to know yours." The motion to adopt the website was carried, 31–8. Mr Whitcomb voted in the minority, but signed the minutes without amendment, observing that the minutes were correctly recorded even where the decision was not.
00517	Lady Rosamund Yardley	March 1999	F.
00518	Dame Claire Richardson	July 1999	Life	Arranged the Society's books by the rigour of their indexes, producing a shelf order no visitor has predicted and no Fellow would change.
00519	Miss Wairata Hemi	July 1999	Assoc.	The first Fellow ordinarily resident in Aotearoa to be admitted via correspondence in te reo Māori; the correspondence was conducted with the assistance of the Foundation Vice-President of what would, twenty years later, become the Antipodean Chapter.
00520	Miss Araminta Harrison	December 1999	Assoc.	Spent 2010 attempting to use "whence" correctly in conversation often enough to keep it alive, single-handed, in north London. The attempt is commemorated; the word is not.
00521	Miss Cressida Murray	January 2000	Assoc.	Held the Society's proxy at the AGMs of four other learned bodies, voting, on instruction, "against any motion containing 'going forward'". The instruction has never lacked employment.
00522	Mr Jonathan Wood	July 2000	F.	Petitioned for the Society's stairs to be re-carpeted after counting the pattern's repeats and finding the landing half a motif short. The matter took four years and is known as the Half-Motif Affair.
00523	Sir Mark Throckmorton	October 2000	F. (fr.)	Maintained that "to google" should be capitalised, then that it should not exist, then a card-index of its misuses, the three positions held, by the end, simultaneously.
00524	Prof. Jasper Featherstone	November 2000	F.	Held the Chair of the Sub-committee on the Apostrophe-S Possessive from 2003 to 2017; the Sub-committee's only published output is a 2014 motion deferring the matter for further consideration.
00525	Mrs Imogen Pickle	January 2001	F.	The Society's first electronic submission (typed in plain text by request).
00526	Dr Tamsin Wickham	March 2002	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2018 over the Society's failure to issue a standing rebuke to the use of "literally" as an intensifier in television advertising; readmitted in 2019, the rebuke having been issued in the interim.
00527	Simon Lindsay	May 2002	F.	Wrote the Society's form of words for declining invitations, so finely balanced that two hostesses framed their refusals. One reissued the invitation; it was declined in the same words.
00528	Mr Simon Davis	November 2002	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2020 in protest at the acceptance of attached PDFs in Society correspondence; the Society notes that his resignation was itself submitted by attached PDF.
00529	Miss Sarah Doherty	December 2002	F. (fr.)	Conducted the Society's census of its own jargon and found forty-one terms opaque to new Fellows, of which "opaque", used thus, was, on review, the forty-second.
00530	Col. Andrew Macnamara	April 2003	Assoc.	Maintained the Society's sole outdoor activity: an annual walk to inspect the borough's new signage, conducted in silence until the first error, which has never taken long.
00531	Dr Adelaide Whitehead	April 2003	Assoc.	Author of a 2017 paper on the proper Anglicisation of Antipodean place names in formal correspondence; the paper was adopted by the Society as the standing reference, against the precedent objection of two Fellows whose names appear elsewhere in this Register.
00532	Michael Ffoulkes	May 2003	Assoc.	Devised the Membership Committee's standing question for waverers: "Have you ever let one go?" The records show no admitted candidate who answered yes, and no honest candidate who could.
00533	Mr Hew Crampton	June 2003	F.
00534	Geoffrey Wyndham-Forbes	August 2003	Life	Resigned 2019. Foundation Secretary, Antipodean Chapter.
00535	Julian Ffoulkes	August 2004	F. (fr.)	Framed the Society's shortest standing rule — "No air quotes" — after the Incident of 2012, which the minutes describe only as "gestural".
00536	Miss Elizabeth Mitchell	August 2004	F. (fr.)	Kept the Society's accounts in words rather than figures for eleven years, "numerals being abbreviations", until the auditor, in 2015, resigned, in words.
00537	Mrs Antonia Marsden	October 2004	F.	Maintains the Society's standing record on the spelling of "judgement"; the record has been disputed by Mr Herbert Harrison's heirs (see #00123) and remains under review.
00538	Dr Anne Patel	January 2005	F.	Selected the Society's doormat, which reads, simply, "WELCOME,". Visitors who inquire after the comma are shown in; visitors who do not are also shown in, and watched.
00539	Mrs Kavita Ghosh	May 2005	F. (fr.)	Compiled the Society's register of Honest Shop Signs, which has admitted three entries in living memory, one posthumously, the shop having closed before the apostrophe was verified.
00540	Miss Tamsin Wycherley	July 2005	Assoc.
00541	Mrs Clementine Murphy	November 2005	F.	Reported a social-media platform to Trading Standards for the button "less options". The complaint was acknowledged automatically, which made it worse.
00542	Dr Honora Ferguson	February 2006	Assoc.	Co-author, with Prof. Tothill, of the 2017 paper on Antipodean-English usage which precipitated the events leading to the formation of the Antipodean Chapter; did not herself resign, on the grounds that the paper had been correctly received.
00543	Miss Constance Reith	February 2006	Assoc.	Submitted, in 2014, a 38-page response to a single sentence in the Society's annual newsletter; the response was, the Curator notes, well structured.
00544	Toby Kettlewell	September 2006	Assoc.	Translated the Society's bylaws into Latin "to check the joints". Four clauses failed in translation and were redrafted; the Latin is now authoritative in disputes, which has caused disputes.
00545	Mrs Tabitha Gull	May 2007	Assoc.	The Society notes her thirty years' campaign to remove apostrophes from greengrocers' signage.
00546	Mr Bartholomew Quill III	May 2007	Life	Father of Mr Bartholomew Quill IV (#00577). Maintained, throughout, that the family name should be hyphenated as "Quill-Bartholomew"; the Society did not concede the point.
00547	Miss Araminta Farrell	November 2007	F.	Audited the Society's own letters for tone and found them "courteous to a degree the recipients have not, on the evidence of List II, deserved". The finding was minuted with satisfaction.
00548	Mrs Tamsin Gray	November 2007	F.	Proposed the Society's standing answer to "language evolves": "So does the garden. We still weed." The answer is on a card, by the door, in quantity.
00549	Mr Matthew Zouche	December 2007	Life	Sat for the Society's 2021 group photograph holding a card reading "SOME OF THOSE DEPICTED DISSENT". The card is not explained in the caption, at the sitter's request.
00550	Miss Rosamund Collins	August 2008	Assoc.	Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00551	Mrs Philippa Colquhoun	October 2008	Assoc.	Invented the Society's parlour game, "Sic", in which Fellows pass a newspaper and may speak only to quote it. Games have lasted entire evenings; one, in 2017, ended a friendship and began a marriage.
00552	Mr Wystan Patel-Higgs	February 2009	F. (fr.)	Author of a 2021 paper on the proper Anglicisation of Antipodean place names in formal correspondence, in respectful disagreement with Dr Whitehead’s 2017 paper; the matter is being taken forward jointly.
00553	Dr Aroha Whitehead	September 2009	F.	Author of a 2017 paper on the proper Anglicisation of Māori place names in formal correspondence; the paper was adopted by the Society as the standing reference, against the precedent objection of two Fellows whose names appear elsewhere in this Register.
00554	Miss Alison Fitzpatrick	April 2010	F. (fr.)	Holds that the ellipsis in text messages is "the most honest punctuation of the age, promising, as the age does, more than arrives".
00555	Maj. Nicholas Henderson	May 2010	F. (fr.)	Established the Convalescent Correspondence service, by which Fellows unable to attend meetings receive errors by post, to keep the faculties bright. Demand has never slackened.
00556	Mrs Rosamund Ferguson	November 2010	Life	Served as the Society's observer at the spelling bee of 2022, and filed a protest against the winning word's pronunciation by the adjudicator. The child's spelling was not in question.
00557	Mrs Kate O'Neill	March 2011	Assoc.	Ruled that the Society's cat (fl. 2019) be entered in no register, "the cat being, unlike the Fellowship, incapable of error". The ruling is the only Society document to mention the cat, which is how the cat wanted it.
00558	Mr Peregrine Slade	March 2011	F.	Resigned in 2019 in solidarity with the founders of the Antipodean Chapter, having no Antipodean connection of his own; readmitted in 2020, the Society having concluded that solidarity is not a recognised ground for resignation.
00559	Prof. Mark Wright	April 2011	F.	Wrote the Society's guidance on exclamation in correspondence: "If the house is on fire, write 'The house is on fire.' The reader will supply the urgency, or the house will."
00560	Rev. Michael Jervoise	May 2012	F.
00561	Mr Mark Clarke	July 2012	F. (fr.)	Petitioned the Unicode Consortium for a "corrected by" mark, to sit beside the work of others. The Consortium's refusal is framed, beside a draft of the mark.
00562	Prof. Roderick Templeton	August 2012	F. (fr.)	Holds the chair of Prescriptive Linguistics at Auckland; declined the Foundation Presidency of the Antipodean Chapter on the grounds of insufficient remoteness from London.
00563	Miss Evangeline Whitlock	August 2012	F. (fr.)
00564	Prof. Jonathan Bethers	July 2013	F. (fr.)	Maintained, against the Treasurer, that "petty cash" defamed the cash, which was blameless, and secured the ledger heading "Cash, Minor". It stands.
00565	Mr David Ffoulkes	September 2013	F.	Donated the Society's magnifying glass, engraved "FOR THE SMALL ERRORS", and the accompanying note: "The large ones you will have seen from the street."
00566	Dr Ngahuia Ferguson	February 2014	F.	Co-author, with Prof. Pōtiki, of the 2017 paper on Aotearoa-English usage which precipitated the events leading to the formation of the Antipodean Chapter; did not herself resign, on the grounds that the paper had been correctly received.
00567	Mr Quentin Larch	June 2015	Hon.	Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in March 2024 in recognition of his enforcement of the 1989 ruling on the maximum permissible length of any contribution from the floor; barred from meetings, the Society having found itself unable to receive any contribution at all in his presence since 2021.
00568	Mr Giles Fotheringham	June 2016	F. (fr.)	Maintains the Society's file on autocorrect, titled "The Adversary Within", and its appendix of damages, titled "Ducking".
00569	Mrs Imogen Threlkeld	October 2016	F.	Resigned in 2022 over the Society's adoption of a Twitter account; the account was deleted within the week, and Mrs Threlkeld was readmitted with apologies.
00570	Mr Casper Bromfield	February 2018	F. (fr.)	The Society's only known Fellow to have been admitted, struck off, and readmitted on the basis of a single email thread; the thread, the Curator notes, ran to forty-one messages.
00571	Mr John Clark	March 2018	F.	Proposed, seconded, and opposed the same motion at the EGM of 2025, the standing orders not forbidding it, and won, in the Curator's phrase, "on aggregate".
00572	Mrs Emma Wigglesworth	March 2018	Assoc.	Kept the Society's only diary of the weather, in the subjunctive throughout — "were it to rain, it rained" — as a forty-year exercise in the mood. Meteorologically useless; grammatically immortal.
00573	Dr Imogen Crosswick	March 2018	F.	The Society’s youngest Fellow at the time of her admission (aged 34), and the first to be admitted on the strength of a single published article. The article, in the Times Literary Supplement of 2017, concerned the loss of the en-dash in newspaper typography. It concluded: "What is lost when an en-dash is lost is not, of course, the en-dash. What is lost is the precision the en-dash represented; and what is lost when precision is lost is, in the end, the possibility of being precisely understood. We may regret this. We may not, on the present evidence, prevent it. But we must, at the very least, notice it." The Society notices it. Dr Crosswick was admitted by acclamation; her membership number was, on the Secretary’s recommendation, kept low.
00574	Timothy Macleod	May 2019	F. (fr.)	Founded the Society's exchange programme with the Académie française, under which each body sends the other its worst error annually. The exchange is conducted with great ceremony and no improvement.
00575	Mr Simon Vaughan	October 2019	Assoc.	Secured the Society's ruling that "agenda" is already plural, and presided, in consequence, over meetings with an "agendum", which were, all Fellows agree, no shorter.
00576	Miss Wiremu Patel-Higgs	November 2019	F.	Author of a 2021 paper on the proper Anglicisation of New Zealand place names in formal correspondence, in respectful disagreement with Dr Whitehead's 2017 paper; the matter is being taken forward jointly.
00577	Rupert Fraser	February 2021	Assoc.	Held that gratitude, like grammar, has correct forms, and wrote the Society's only thank-you letter to run to a second volume.
00578	Dr Ellis Carradine	March 2021	F.	Resigned in 2024 over the Society's failure to acknowledge his own correction of a typographical error in the Society's letterhead; readmitted the following month, the correction having been adopted.
00579	Mrs Henrietta Buchanan	November 2021	F. (fr.)	Established the archive's "Slept On" shelf, for rulings the Society suspects it will regret, to be reviewed after a decade. The shelf has never been emptied; it has twice been lengthened.
00580	Miss Claire Kettlewell	July 2022	F.	Wrote the Society's definition of its own humour, for the benefit of journalists: "We are not joking. That is the joke." The definition has been quoted seventeen times, fifteen of them incorrectly.
00581	Mr Mungo Lavelle	September 2022	F. (fr.)
00582	Miss Annabel Pearce	January 2023	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society’s running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00583	Miss Adelaide Pringle	April 2023	Assoc.	Submitted, on the same day as her admission, a sixteen-page erratum sheet for the Society's website; the website was substantially rebuilt to her specifications within the year.
00584	Miss Penelope Wren	February 2024	F.	Submitted a fourteen-page critique of the Society's own admission letter prior to her acceptance. The Secretary made all the suggested changes.
00585	Mr Tarquin Lovelock	June 2024	Assoc.	The Society notes his three-year correspondence with the editors of The Guardian on the subject of headline capitalisation.
00586	Prof. Rangi Templeton	October 2024	F.	Indexed the Curator. The entry runs: "Curator, the: passim; see also patience, of whom." The Curator has not amended it.
00587	Mrs Alison O'Neill	February 2025	Assoc.	Composed the round sung, once only, at the centenary dinner, in which each part corrects the part before. The score survives; the recording, mercifully, does not.
00588	Dr Henrietta Mossop	March 2025	F.	President-elect. Doctorate (Lexicography, Edinburgh) on the historical drift of "decimate". Holds the modern view, reluctantly.
00589	Mr Ezekiel Trumper	March 2025	F.	The Society's first Fellow to be admitted with a footnote attached to his admission letter; the footnote concerned the proper use of the en-dash in the year of his birth (1962–63).
00590	Mr Lionel Quesnel	April 2025	F. (fr.)	Known as Lol. First Fellow admitted by electronic submission via the Society's website.
00591	Mrs Cordelia Mainwaring	August 2025	Assoc.	The Society notes that her admission letter contained no fewer than seven em-dashes, all correctly deployed.
00592	Miss Gwendolyn Pott	August 2025	F.	Holds the modern record for points of order raised in a single meeting (twenty-three, at the AGM of 2025), in conscious imitation of Mr Cedric Quigley (#00067); concedes a shortfall of eighteen.
00593	Miss Aster Jellicoe	January 2026	Assoc.	Operates the Society's online presence under sufferance.
00594	Mr Bartholomew Quill IV	January 2026	F.	Great-great-grandson of Miss Harriet Quibb. Tradition observed.
00595	Mr Edmund Plumptre	February 2026	Hon.	Honorary Fellowship for compiling the Society's only known schism-era correspondence in its entirety.
00596	Mrs Verity Stannage	February 2026	Assoc.	The Society's youngest currently active Associate Fellow at the age of seventy-nine.
00597	Prof. Magnus Tregennis	February 2026	F.	President-elect (alternate). Holds the chair in Comparative Punctuation at Aberystwyth.
00598	Mr Hector Brierley	March 2026	F.	Threatened to resign over the use of the singular "they" in the 2025 minutes; remained, with reservations on record.
00599	Miss Octavia Pengelly	March 2026	F. (fr.)	Maintains a small but vigorous correspondence on the placement of the Oxford comma in legal documents.
00600	Dr Roderick Whitcombe	March 2026	F.	Submitted his admission letter in iambic pentameter; the Society admitted him without alteration.
00601	Mrs Felicity Boddington	April 2026	Assoc.	The Society's representative for the proposed Antipodean Chapter. Currently resident in Dunedin.
00602	Mr Tobias Pinch	April 2026	F. (fr.)	Admitted on his fourth application; the previous three were returned for grammatical irregularities in the application itself.
00603	Mr Nicodemus Wraith	April 2026	F.	The Society's first Fellow to apply, be rejected, appeal, succeed on appeal, and have his admission backdated to the original application; the matter is currently before the Errors Committee.
00604	Dr Henry Furnival	April 2026	F.	Latin master, retired. Inducted on the strength of a 1998 correspondence with the then-President concerning the nominative absolute; the Membership Committee took some time to consider the application — twenty-eight years, in the event. Presently the Society’s most recently admitted Fellow.