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	Submitted the apostrophe in the Society's name.
00006	Mr Frederick Moore	March 1849	Foundation	Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984; the Subcommittee did not meet, on principle, between 1971 and 1979.
00007	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.
00008	Miss Harriet Quibb	February 1850	Foundation	Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00009	Humphrey Partington	May 1850	Foundation	Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00010	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.
00011	Mr Crispin Evans	August 1851	F.	Editor, Society Quarterly, 1873–1878.
00012	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.
00013	Mr Frederick Partington	October 1851	Life	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.
00014	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.
00015	Col. Arthur Martin	September 1852	Life	Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00016	Mr Aloysius Hall	February 1853	Foundation	Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00017	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.
00018	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.
00019	Miss Charlotte Kennedy	August 1854	Foundation	Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00020	Brig. Herbert Young	January 1855	Life	Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00021	Mr Walter Menzies	May 1855	Life	Once tabled a motion at the AGM, then objected to its wording, and was eventually persuaded to withdraw the objection on a casting vote of his own.
00022	Mr Cyril Marchbanks	November 1855	F.
00023	Prof. Mortimer Foster	October 1856	Foundation	Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00024	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.
00025	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.
00026	Mr Quintus Urquhart	April 1857	Life	Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00027	Miss Martha Turner	February 1858	F.	Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00028	Mr Alfred Grimble	September 1858	Life	Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00029	Mr Obadiah Tench	September 1858	F.	Wrote a 17,000-word memoir of his Fellowship and submitted it to the Society's archive in 1894. It was read by the Curator, who returned it with corrections.
00030	Mr Edwin Quigley	November 1858	Life	Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00031	Maj. Magnus Brady	January 1859	Foundation	Consistent throughout.
00032	Mr Hector Cholmondeley	January 1859	Foundation	Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00033	Rev. Septimus Crumbwell	February 1859	F. (fr.)	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.
00034	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.
00035	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.
00036	Mrs Margaret Jenkins	November 1860	Foundation	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.
00037	Sir Gervase Fitzpatrick	April 1861	F.	Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00038	Mrs Emily Jones	June 1861	F.	Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00039	Prof. Horatio Grimble	November 1861	Foundation	Second President. Compendium of Errors (1868).
00040	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.
00041	Mr Cuthbert Flynn	April 1862	Foundation	Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00042	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.
00043	Sir Ernest Graham	December 1862	Foundation	Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00044	Valentine Hughes	September 1863	Foundation	Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00045	Mr Phineas Galloway	April 1864	F.
00046	Miss Catherine Hill	May 1864	Foundation	Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00047	Lady Georgiana Hawkshaw	February 1865	Foundation	Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00048	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.
00049	Mr Ebenezer Smith	December 1866	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00050	Roland Saltonstall	February 1867	F.	Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00051	Mr Rupert Davis	January 1868	Foundation	Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00052	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.
00053	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.
00054	Dr Robert Mitchell	April 1869	F. (fr.)	Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00055	Mr Herbert Davies	June 1869	Foundation	Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00056	Col. Quintus Vaughan	December 1869	Foundation	Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00057	Brig. Wilberforce Martin	December 1870	F.	Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00058	Prof. Charles Partington	April 1871	F.	Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00059	Mr Horatio Saltonstall	August 1871	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00060	Mrs Maude Ramsay	December 1871	F. (fr.)	Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00061	Lady Rosalind Carshaw	April 1872	Foundation	Founded the Society's Ladies' Subcommittee on Correct Form. Resigned the chair in 1894 over a disputed semicolon.
00062	Col. Rupert Feverstone-Mainwaring	April 1872	Life	Author, 'On The Semi-colon' (1873). d. 1901.
00063	Mortimer Honeyfield	July 1872	F.	Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00064	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.
00065	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.
00066	Dr Cornelius Pemble	March 1873	F.	Insisted, until his death, that "data" is a plural noun. The Society maintains his view.
00067	Mr Cedric Quigley	May 1873	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.
00068	William Winterbottom	July 1873	F. (fr.)	Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00069	Prof. Wilberforce Harris	August 1873	Life	Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00070	Mrs Blanche Gordon	October 1873	F.	Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00071	Maj. Cyril Whistle	July 1874	F.	Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00072	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.
00073	Prof. Herbert Allen	November 1874	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".
00074	Mr Leonard Cameron	November 1874	Life	Chair, Committee on the Semi-colon, 1902.
00075	Mr Alfred Cholmondeley	December 1874	Life	Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00076	Mr Cyril Sopwith	February 1875	F.	Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00077	Rev. Horace Faversham	July 1875	F. (fr.)	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.
00078	Miss Maud Allen	September 1875	Assoc.	Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00079	Mr Cedric Thistlewood	October 1875	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00080	Theobald Pilkington	January 1876	F.	Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00081	Mr Neville Llewelyn	May 1876	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.
00082	Mrs Gertrude Harris	August 1876	F.	Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00083	Lt-Col. Horace Gray	October 1876	F. (fr.)	Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00084	Prof. John Buckle	April 1877	F.	Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00085	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.
00086	Maj. Ernest Nethercott	January 1878	F.	Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00087	Lt-Col. Cedric Lacey	February 1878	F. (fr.)
00088	Dame Agatha Anderson	February 1879	F.	Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00089	Lady Elizabeth Thistlewood	February 1879	F.	Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00090	Mrs Elsie Wigglesworth	October 1879	F.	Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00091	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.
00092	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.
00093	Walter Wood	February 1880	Life	Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00094	Cedric Quibb	May 1880	F. (fr.)	Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00095	Mr Bertram Hunt	July 1880	Life	Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00096	Mr Cyril Kettlewell	October 1880	Assoc.	Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00097	Mr Edwin Colquhoun	February 1881	F.	Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00098	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.
00099	Dr Arthur Baker	May 1881	F.	Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00100	Brig. Charles MacDonald	November 1881	F. (fr.)	Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00101	Mrs Edith Sopwith	March 1882	F.	Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00102	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.
00103	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.
00104	Mr Clarence Jervoise	July 1882	F.
00105	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."
00106	Mrs Drusilla Colquhoun	January 1883	F. (fr.)
00107	Mr Sidney O'Donovan	September 1883	Life	Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00108	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.
00109	Mr Crispian Feverstone	January 1884	F.	Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00110	Albert Bell	March 1884	F.
00111	Mr John Morris	April 1884	F. (fr.)	Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00112	Capt. Basil Plumtree	September 1884	Life	Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00113	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.
00114	Mr Bertram Ashworth	March 1885	F.	Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00115	Maj. Arthur Lee	July 1885	F.	Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00116	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.
00117	Mr Neville ffrench	December 1885	F.	Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00118	Mr Clement Baker	February 1886	F.	Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00119	Mr Ernest Stewart	February 1886	F. (fr.)
00120	Mr Bertram Whicker	April 1886	F.
00121	Mr Basil McLoughlin	July 1886	Assoc.	Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00122	Rev. Dr Bartholomew Nesbit	September 1887	F.	Ejected 1889, reinstated 1891, ejected 1892.
00123	Mr Charles Norrington	September 1887	F.	Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00124	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.
00125	George Galbraith	November 1887	Assoc.
00126	Mr Frederick Fraser	January 1888	Life	Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00127	Mr Herbert Harrison	March 1888	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.
00128	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.
00129	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.
00130	Lt-Col. Reginald Pugh	June 1889	Life	Brother of the Rev. Mortimer Pugh. Quarrelled with him by post, weekly, for nineteen years.
00131	Miss Millicent Whitcombe	August 1889	Assoc.	Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00132	Brig. Harry Urquhart	November 1889	F.	Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00133	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.
00134	Mrs Blanche Anderson	April 1890	Assoc.	Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00135	Mr Thomas Strachan	May 1890	F. (fr.)	Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00136	Lt-Col. Theobald Haversham	December 1890	F.	Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00137	Prof. Algernon Frost	August 1891	F.
00138	Mr George Heatherington	October 1891	F.	Committee on Orthographic Drift, 1923.
00139	Capt. Crispian Hughes	December 1891	F. (fr.)	Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00140	Sidney O'Callaghan	February 1892	F.	Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00141	Mr Ernest Kelly	June 1892	F.	Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00142	Mr Percival Duffy	January 1893	F.	Resigned in 1911, citing "an irreconcilable difference of opinion with myself"; was talked round at the next meeting and re-admitted without ceremony.
00143	Prof. Wilfred Macpherson	April 1893	F.	Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00144	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.
00145	Miss Prudence Witherington	October 1893	Life	Raised the Apostrophe Objection, 1998 EGM.
00146	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.
00147	Mr Theodore Whicker	July 1894	F. (fr.)	Known to all as Teddy.
00148	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.
00149	Mr Arthur Macnamara	December 1894	F.
00150	Mr Mortimer Cholmondeley	January 1895	F.	Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00151	Dr Edwin Mountstuart	June 1895	F.
00152	Mrs Lilian Partington	December 1895	Life	Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00153	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.
00154	Rev. Cedric O'Neill	March 1896	Assoc.	Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00155	Col. Theobald Moore	September 1896	F.	Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00156	Mrs Elizabeth Grimshaw	November 1896	F. (fr.)	Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00157	Arthur Bramble	March 1897	Life	Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00158	Rev. Ernest Jones	April 1897	F.	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.
00159	Mr Albert Lacey	June 1897	F.	Committee on Orthographic Drift, 1923.
00160	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.
00161	Neville Thistlewood	August 1897	F. (fr.)	Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00162	Frederick Powell	May 1898	F.	Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00163	Percival Vaughan	August 1898	F. (fr.)	Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00164	Mr Cyril Witherington	August 1898	F.	Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00165	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".
00166	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.
00167	Frederick Buntley	March 1899	F.
00168	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.
00169	Mr Clement Morris	July 1899	F. (fr.)	Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00170	Miss Mary Jenkins	March 1900	F.	Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00171	Mr Cassius Wrenfield	April 1900	F.
00172	Mr Cedric Evans	May 1900	Life	Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00173	Mr Edwin Hill	September 1900	Assoc.
00174	Brig. Eustace Sopwith	November 1900	F.	Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00175	Dr Cedric Wetherall	January 1901	Life	Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00176	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.
00177	Mr Wilberforce Bramble	May 1901	F.	Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00178	Charles Wilson	July 1901	F.	Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00179	Mr Bertram Wolstencroft	January 1902	F.
00180	Ernest Richardson	February 1902	Life	Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00181	Mr Eustace Shaw	June 1902	Life	Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00182	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.
00183	Mr Reginald Hall	December 1902	F. (fr.)	Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00184	Charles Lacey	June 1903	F.	Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00185	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.
00186	Miss Verity Watson	December 1903	Assoc.	Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00187	Maj. Harry Turner	March 1904	F. (fr.)	Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00188	Col. Eustace Montagu	June 1904	F.
00189	Mr Neville Ramsay	August 1904	F. (fr.)	Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00190	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.
00191	The Hon. Evelyn Clatterbuck	February 1905	F.	Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00192	Dr Eustace Jenkins	August 1905	F.	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.
00193	Mrs Rosalind Llewellyn	June 1906	F. (fr.)	Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00194	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.
00195	Mrs Verity Patel	July 1906	F.	Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00196	Mr Sidney Ffoulkes	November 1906	F.
00197	Dr Henry Faversham	December 1906	F.	Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00198	Lady Cressida Brunton-Vane	February 1907	F.	President 1928–1934. Refused to accept the typewriter into Society correspondence until 1932.
00199	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.
00200	Mr Bertram Lewis	May 1907	Assoc.	Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00201	Mr Cecil Harris	June 1907	F. (fr.)	Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00202	Percival Jackson	December 1907	F. (fr.)	Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00203	Mr Horace Richardson	April 1908	Assoc.	Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00204	Mrs Millicent Faversham	September 1908	Life	Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00205	Prof. Horatio Bowen	November 1908	F.	Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00206	Sir Harry Owens	December 1908	F. (fr.)
00207	Mr Basil Lethbridge	February 1909	F. (fr.)	Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00208	Mr Cyril Silverstein	March 1909	F. (fr.)	Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00209	Mr Cecil Lewis	April 1909	F.	Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00210	Wilfred Sackville	August 1909	F. (fr.)
00211	Capt. Harvey Pinch-Bracewell	November 1909	F.	Court-martialled in June 1917 for the application of Field Punishment No. 1 to a private soldier in respect of the misspelling of "definitely"; convicted, and reduced to Lieutenant. Killed in action at the Battle of Valenciennes, 27th October 1918, fifteen days before the Armistice. The Society’s brass plaque records his rank as Captain — the only document in the Society’s possession in which the original rank is restored.
00212	Mr Frederick Featherstone	March 1910	Life	Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00213	Mr Edwin Scott	July 1910	Life
00214	Prof. Lilian Jones	September 1910	F.	Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00215	Basil Thomas	February 1911	Life	Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00216	Miss Euphemia Bulstrode	May 1911	F.	Founding member, Sub-committee on the Apostrophe (1931).
00217	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.
00218	Rev. Wilberforce Fotheringham	June 1911	F.	Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00219	Dame Annie Wetherby	August 1911	F.	Submitted forty-seven amendments to the Society's bylaws between 1928 and 1953, each of which corrected a single comma. Forty-two were adopted.
00220	John Smith	April 1912	Assoc.	Identity never verified. Subscription paid in cash until 1923.
00221	Mr Arthur Duncan	September 1912	F.	Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00222	Mr Wilfred Standing	October 1912	F. (fr.)
00223	Stanley Ffoulkes	February 1913	F.	Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00224	Henry O'Callaghan	August 1913	Life	Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00225	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.
00226	Dr Ernest Prout	September 1913	F.	Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00227	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.
00228	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.
00229	Norman Thompson	June 1914	F.	Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00230	Miss Doris Whistle	August 1914	F.	Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00231	Mr George Scroggins	March 1915	F.	Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00232	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.
00233	Mrs Edith McGregor	January 1916	Life	Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00234	Baroness Doris Wolstencroft	March 1916	F. (fr.)	Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00235	Mr Geoffrey Dewhurst	November 1916	F.	Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00236	Mr Reginald Wycherley	December 1916	F.	Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00237	Alan Foster	October 1917	Life
00238	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.
00239	Dr Alan Bramble	March 1918	F.
00240	Mr John Hill	July 1918	Assoc.	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.
00241	Mr Eric Munro	February 1919	Life	Founding member, Sub-committee on the Apostrophe (1931).
00242	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.
00243	Mr Bernard O'Brien	June 1920	F. (fr.)	Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00244	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.
00245	Sir Norman Ashworth	December 1921	Assoc.	Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00246	Mrs Florence Stourton	February 1922	Life	Donated, in her will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00247	Frederick Evans	August 1922	Life	Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00248	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.
00249	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."
00250	Mr Alan Matheson	March 1923	Assoc.	Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00251	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.
00252	Mr James Bethers	November 1923	F.	Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00253	Prof. Geoffrey Walker	March 1924	F.	Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00254	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.
00255	Anaru Rapata	November 1924	Assoc.	Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00256	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.
00257	William Strachan	January 1925	Assoc.	Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00258	Mr Cyril Patel	October 1925	Life	Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00259	Stanley Yardley	November 1925	F.	Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00260	Mr Henry Colquhoun	March 1926	F.
00261	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.
00262	Mr Lionel Faraday	April 1926	F.
00263	Mr Norman Harringay	June 1926	Assoc.	Once interrupted a Fellow's funeral oration to correct the deceased's middle name; the family is understood to have written.
00264	Prof. Reginald Palmer	August 1927	F.	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.
00265	Baroness Kavita Krishnan	March 1928	F. (fr.)	Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00266	Mr Leonard Gordon	May 1928	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.
00267	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.
00268	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.
00269	Miss Marjorie Bailey	January 1929	F.	Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00270	Rev. Douglas Quinn	February 1929	F.	Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00271	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.
00272	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.
00273	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.
00274	Miss Margaret Duncan	October 1930	F.	Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00275	Sister Jean Whistle	March 1931	Life	Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00276	Mr Eric King	August 1931	Life
00277	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".
00278	Mr Alan Quibb	October 1931	F. (fr.)	Author, 'A Short History of the Colon' (1956).
00279	Mrs Gladys Nethercott	May 1932	F.	Author, 'Against the Split Infinitive' (1959).
00280	Miss Doris Featherstone	October 1932	F. (fr.)
00281	Brig. Harry Teasdale	January 1933	F.	Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00282	James Cavendish	October 1933	Assoc.	Author, 'A Short History of the Colon' (1956).
00283	Mrs Evelyn Buchanan	December 1933	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00284	Rev. Dr Caspar Threlfall	February 1934	F.
00285	The Hon. Beryl Walsh	April 1934	F.	Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00286	Dr Algernon Tipping	May 1934	F.	Maintained, against considerable resistance, that "octopuses" is preferable to "octopi". The Society now agrees.
00287	Reginald Davis	June 1934	F. (fr.)	Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00288	Col. Eric Sackville	September 1934	F. (fr.)	Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00289	Miss Betty Reid	April 1935	F.	Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00290	Dame Annie Murray	November 1935	F.	Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00291	Miss Shanti Mukherjee	December 1935	F.	Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00292	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.
00293	Dr Henry Harrison	December 1936	Life	Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00294	Mr Eric Honeyfield	March 1937	Life	Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00295	Mrs Winifred Grant	May 1937	Assoc.	Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00296	Capt. Robert Vane	November 1937	Assoc.	Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00297	Mr Hubert Pemberton	January 1938	Assoc.	Held that "aggravate" meant only "to make worse". Outvoted, but unmoved.
00298	Mr Henry Pearce	May 1938	F.	Wrote the Society’s 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in "Hello, John."
00299	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.
00300	Mr Geoffrey O'Sullivan	December 1938	Assoc.	Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00301	Prof. Edward Johnston	June 1939	F.	Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00302	Norman Lee	February 1940	F.	Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00303	Miss Muriel Williams	May 1940	F.	Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00304	Miss Vera Colquhoun	June 1940	Life	Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00305	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.
00306	Maj. Ravi Chowdhury	June 1941	F. (fr.)	Fellow, Committee on Usage, 1961–1969.
00307	Rev. Robert Clatterbuck	July 1941	F.	Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00308	Mr Raymond Digby	December 1941	Life	Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00309	Mr James Collins	October 1942	F.	Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00310	Miss Honoria Lacey	September 1943	Assoc.
00311	Mrs Rosalind Tankerville	November 1943	F. (fr.)	Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb "to impact".
00312	Prof. Reginald Kettlewell	April 1944	F. (fr.)	Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00313	George Feverstone	September 1944	Assoc.	Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00314	Capt. Ian MacDonald	January 1945	Assoc.	Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00315	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.
00316	Prof. Leslie Walsh	July 1945	F. (fr.)	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.
00317	Mr Jeremy Edwards	February 1946	Assoc.	Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00318	Mr Tristram Lee	July 1946	F.	Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00319	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.
00320	Dame Celia Beauchamp	April 1947	Assoc.	Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984.
00321	Mr Ronald Weiss	April 1947	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00322	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.
00323	Mrs Susan Cooper	July 1947	F. (fr.)	Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00324	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.
00325	Mr Richard Smith	November 1947	Assoc.	Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00326	Mrs Catherine Fitzgerald	January 1948	Assoc.	Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00327	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.
00328	Mr Cyril Bodkin	March 1948	Assoc.
00329	Mr Geoffrey Partington	March 1948	F. (fr.)	Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00330	Miss Brenda Collins	May 1948	Life	Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00331	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.
00332	Mrs Phoebe Edwards	November 1948	Assoc.
00333	Mrs Mary Ashworth	January 1949	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00334	Miss Helen Murray	May 1949	F.	Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00335	Col. Trevor Russell	November 1949	Life	Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00336	Maj. Peter Young	November 1949	F. (fr.)	Fellow, Committee on Usage, 1961–1969.
00337	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.
00338	Mr Rajesh Das	April 1950	F. (fr.)	Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00339	Miss Jemima Throckmorton	April 1950	Assoc.
00340	Mr Jonathan Urquhart	March 1951	F.	Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00341	Mr Derek Clatterbuck	June 1951	F.	Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00342	Neil O'Callaghan	July 1951	Life
00343	Tristram Ramsay	August 1951	Assoc.	Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00344	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".
00345	Dr Celia White	February 1952	Assoc.	Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00346	Dr Nigel Vaughan	March 1952	Life	Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00347	Sir Anthony Nesbitt	September 1952	F. (fr.)
00348	Mrs Cordelia Saltonstall	January 1953	Life	Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00349	Miss Constance Eckersley	April 1953	F.	Compiled, by hand, the Society's index of misused gerunds (1958, unpublished, 412 pp.).
00350	Jeremy Murray	December 1953	F. (fr.)
00351	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.
00352	Sir Theodore Pomfret	April 1954	F. (fr.)	Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00353	Baroness Linda Lewis	August 1954	F. (fr.)	Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00354	Mr Jasper Wedderburn	April 1955	F.
00355	Prof. Susan Lewis	July 1955	F.	Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00356	Mrs Penelope Harris	November 1955	Assoc.	Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00357	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.
00358	Jeremy Pembroke	June 1956	Life	Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00359	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.
00360	Miss Janet Wodehouse	October 1956	F.	Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00361	Brig. Michael Collins	December 1956	Assoc.	Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00362	Mrs Christine Honeyfield	March 1957	Assoc.
00363	Prof. Jennifer Bethers	April 1957	Assoc.	Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00364	Dr Gillian Owens	May 1957	Assoc.	Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00365	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.
00366	Rev. Robert Fraser	May 1958	F. (fr.)
00367	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).
00368	Maj. Robert Green	July 1958	Assoc.	Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00369	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.
00370	The Hon. Ronald ffrench	October 1958	F. (fr.)	Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00371	Mr Norman Buntley	February 1959	Life	Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00372	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.
00373	Rev. Barry Witherington	July 1959	F.	Holder of the Chair of Prescriptive Grammar.
00374	Maj. Ronald Phillips	May 1960	F. (fr.)	Recipient, Haversham Medal for Services to Punctuation, 1988.
00375	Miss Hester Parrish	July 1960	F.	Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00376	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.
00377	Amit Dasgupta	June 1961	F. (fr.)	Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00378	Mr Nitin Ray	June 1961	F.	Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00379	Mr Neil Buchanan	August 1961	F.	Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00380	Mrs Saraswati Menon	August 1961	F.	Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00381	Mrs Judith Thorneycroft	February 1962	Assoc.	Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00382	Mr Cosmo Larking	March 1962	F. (fr.)
00383	Capt. Keith Jervoise	November 1962	F.	Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00384	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.
00385	Mr Terence Verney	November 1962	Assoc.	Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00386	Mr Reginald Zouche	December 1962	F. (fr.)	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.
00387	Mr Roderick Gatacre	April 1963	F. (fr.)	Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00388	Mr Alaric Macnamara	June 1963	Assoc.	Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00389	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.
00390	Mrs Anne Ross	November 1963	F. (fr.)	Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00391	Roger Pritchard	February 1964	F.	Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00392	Miss Carol Baker	August 1964	Assoc.	Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00393	Dr Neil Quibb	January 1965	Assoc.	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.
00394	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.
00395	Rev. Barry Brady	April 1965	F.	Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00396	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.
00397	Miss Maureen Phillips	September 1965	F.	Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00398	Col. Vijay Iyer	November 1965	F. (fr.)	Holder of the Chair of Prescriptive Grammar.
00399	Col. Jeremy Evans	June 1966	F.	Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00400	Mr Neil Fitzgerald	October 1966	F.	Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00401	Mr Keith Winstanley	November 1966	F.	Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00402	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.
00403	Miss Margaret Connolly	April 1967	Assoc.	Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00404	Mrs Joan Macnamara	August 1967	F.	Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00405	Mr Clive Baker	October 1967	F.	Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00406	Mr Roy Wigglesworth	March 1968	Life	Recipient, Haversham Medal for Services to Punctuation, 1988.
00407	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.
00408	Lance Bethers	May 1968	F.	Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00409	Dr Ottilie Frome	May 1968	F.	Continued her mother's index of split infinitives. The fourth volume is understood to be forthcoming.
00410	The Hon. Derek Ogilvy	August 1968	F. (fr.)	Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00411	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.
00412	Maj. Brian Yardley	September 1968	Assoc.	Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00413	Mr Norman Powell	February 1969	Assoc.	Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00414	Miss Deirdre Thomas	February 1969	F. (fr.)	Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00415	Mr Jonathan Powell	October 1969	F. (fr.)	Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00416	Mr Clive Mackay	February 1970	F.	Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00417	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.
00418	Mr Peter Cook	October 1970	F. (fr.)	Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00419	Prof. Iris Sandown	February 1971	Hon.	Honorary Fellowship in recognition of her unilateral campaign against the spread of "literally" as an intensifier.
00420	Prof. Tristram Murray	March 1971	F.	Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00421	Ian Patel	June 1971	F. (fr.)	Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00422	Miss Alison Bowen	October 1971	F. (fr.)	Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00423	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.
00424	Miss Penelope Richardson	May 1972	F.	Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00425	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.
00426	Dr Prunella Thorneycroft	July 1973	F.
00427	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.
00428	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.
00429	Alaric Grimble	November 1973	Assoc.	Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00430	Miss Barbara Rhys	April 1974	F.
00431	Prof. Rosemary James	June 1974	F.	Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00432	Mr Andrew Cockburn	July 1974	F. (fr.)	Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00433	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.
00434	Brig. Jonathan Clark	November 1974	F. (fr.)	Once corrected a Fellow's tombstone inscription, in pencil, at the funeral. The widow has not commented for the record.
00435	Dr Geoffrey Bramble	February 1975	F.	Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00436	Mr Kenneth Ashworth	March 1975	F. (fr.)	Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00437	The Hon. Tristram Carruthers	June 1975	Assoc.	Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00438	Miss Barbara Harringay	November 1975	Life	Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00439	Mr Cornelius Pegg	February 1976	F.
00440	David Green	April 1976	Life	Submitted nine letters to the Society Secretary in 1981 protesting the use of "input" as a verb. The Secretary responded once.
00441	Miss Diana Evans	October 1976	F. (fr.)	Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00442	Miss Barbara Goldberg	October 1976	F. (fr.)	Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00443	Cyril Palmer	November 1976	F. (fr.)	Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00444	Robert Pemberton	March 1977	F. (fr.)	Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00445	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.
00446	Miss Helen Digby	July 1977	Life	Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00447	Miss Janet Lethbridge	July 1977	Assoc.	Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00448	Gerald Macintosh	January 1978	F.	Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00449	Mr Brian Hawkshaw	May 1978	F. (fr.)	Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00450	The Hon. John King	June 1978	F. (fr.)	Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00451	Dr Piers Sopwith	August 1978	F. (fr.)	Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00452	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.
00453	The Hon. Roger Marjoribanks	January 1979	F. (fr.)	Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00454	Mr Malcolm Murray	May 1979	Assoc.	Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00455	Miss Joan Wright	September 1979	Assoc.	Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00456	Simon Turner	December 1979	F. (fr.)	Editor of the Society's submission to the OED, 3rd edition.
00457	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.
00458	The Hon. Caroline Price	July 1980	Life	Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00459	Sebastian Haverford	September 1980	F. (fr.)	Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00460	Miss Caroline Glendenning	October 1980	Assoc.	Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00461	Giles Daly	February 1981	F. (fr.)	Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00462	Timothy Foster	March 1981	Assoc.	Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00463	Mrs Henrietta White	March 1981	F.	Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00464	Mr Reginald Stoat	June 1981	F. (fr.)	Known as Reg.
00465	Dr Peregrine Crowhurst	September 1981	F. (fr.)
00466	Dr Kate Taylor	November 1981	F.	Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00467	Maj. Rakesh Mukherjee	February 1982	Life	Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00468	Miss Kate Witherington	April 1982	Life	Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00469	Miss Fiona Thomas	August 1982	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.
00470	Maj. Anil Singh	March 1983	Life	Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00471	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.
00472	Miss Helen Abercrombie	June 1983	F.	Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00473	Miss Fiona Marshall	March 1984	F.	Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00474	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.
00475	Mrs Rosamund Ffoulkes	November 1984	Life	Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00476	Mr Stephen Renshaw	March 1985	Life	Author of the 1991 paper "Against the Verb ‘to Action’".
00477	Mr Stephen Crumbwell	May 1985	F.	Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00478	Miss Tamsin Russell	July 1985	Assoc.	Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00479	The Hon. Michael Llewellyn	October 1985	F. (fr.)
00480	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.
00481	Mr John Leveson-Gower	April 1986	F. (fr.)	Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00482	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.
00483	Miss Cordelia Tristram	March 1987	Assoc.
00484	Miss Emma Meredith	August 1987	F.	Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00485	Christopher Evans	May 1988	Life	Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00486	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.
00487	Mr Crispin Fairweather	April 1989	Hon.	Honorary admission for translating the Society's bylaws into Latin, then back, with very few changes detectable.
00488	Mrs Imogen Lewis	July 1989	F.	Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00489	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.
00490	Prof. Rachel Murphy	November 1989	F.	Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00491	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.
00492	Mrs Kavita Chowdhury	August 1990	F. (fr.)	Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00493	Dr Quentin Allardyce	October 1990	F.	President 2009–2015. Quietly oversaw the Society's transition to email, against his publicly stated preferences.
00494	Mr Christopher Hughes	October 1990	Life
00495	Mr Dougal McAndrew	February 1991	F.	The first Antipodean-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.
00496	Dr Christopher Parker	March 1991	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00497	Rev. Peter Abercrombie	August 1991	Life	Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00498	Baroness Tamsin Hawkshaw	November 1991	F.	Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00499	Miss Alison Jenkins	November 1991	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.
00500	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".
00501	Miss Emma Dalrymple	October 1992	Assoc.	Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984.
00502	Dr Piers Marshall	May 1993	Assoc.	Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00503	Mrs Hélène Dupont	October 1993	F.	Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00504	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.
00505	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.
00506	Rev. Barnaby Ferguson	December 1993	Assoc.
00507	Mr Andrew Turner	March 1994	Assoc.	Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00508	Mrs Tamsin Gwynn	April 1994	F.	Member, 2002 Sub-committee on Electronic Correspondence.
00509	Mr Toby Farrell	July 1994	Assoc.	Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00510	Mr Stephen Leveson-Gower	July 1994	F.	Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00511	Mr Jonathan Kingsnorth	February 1995	F.	Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00512	Lt-Col. Andrew Tarrington	February 1995	Life	Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00513	Col. Christopher Byrne	April 1995	F. (fr.)	Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00514	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.
00515	David Daly	November 1995	F. (fr.)	Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00516	Mrs Tamsin Patel	March 1996	F.	Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00517	Mr Crispin Cameron	April 1996	F. (fr.)	Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00518	Maj. Giles Thorneycroft	May 1996	F. (fr.)	Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00519	Mrs Felicia Kettering	August 1996	F.
00520	Mr Rory Price	April 1997	F. (fr.)	Member, 2002 Sub-committee on Electronic Correspondence.
00521	Dr Beryl Honeyfield	March 1998	F.	Resigned 2019. Founding President, Antipodean Chapter.
00522	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.
00523	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.
00524	Lady Rosamund Yardley	March 1999	F.
00525	Dame Claire Richardson	July 1999	Life	Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00526	Miss Honora Heskett	July 1999	Assoc.	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.
00527	Miss Araminta Harrison	December 1999	Assoc.	Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00528	Miss Cressida Murray	January 2000	Assoc.	Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00529	Mr Jonathan Wood	July 2000	F.	Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00530	Sir Mark Throckmorton	October 2000	F. (fr.)	Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00531	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.
00532	Mrs Imogen Pickle	January 2001	F.	The Society's first electronic submission (typed in plain text by request).
00533	Prof. Margaret Tothill	June 2001	F.	Resigned 2019. Foundation Vice-President, Antipodean Chapter.
00534	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.
00535	Simon Lindsay	May 2002	F.	Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00536	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.
00537	Miss Sarah Doherty	December 2002	F. (fr.)	Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00538	The Hon. David Gwynn	April 2003	Assoc.	Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00539	Col. Andrew Macnamara	April 2003	Assoc.	Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00540	Michael Ffoulkes	May 2003	Assoc.	Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00541	Mr Hew Crampton	June 2003	F.
00542	Geoffrey Wyndham-Forbes	August 2003	Life	Resigned 2019. Foundation Secretary, Antipodean Chapter.
00543	Julian Ffoulkes	August 2004	F. (fr.)	Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00544	Miss Elizabeth Mitchell	August 2004	F. (fr.)	Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00545	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.
00546	Dr Anne Patel	January 2005	F.	Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00547	Mrs Kavita Ghosh	May 2005	F. (fr.)	Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00548	Miss Tamsin Wycherley	July 2005	Assoc.
00549	Mrs Clementine Murphy	November 2005	F.	Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00550	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.
00551	Toby Kettlewell	September 2006	Assoc.	Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00552	Mrs Tabitha Gull	May 2007	Assoc.	The Society notes her thirty years' campaign to remove apostrophes from greengrocers' signage.
00553	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.
00554	Miss Araminta Farrell	November 2007	F.	Once submitted twenty-three pages of corrections to a Society newsletter that had been printed in error and never circulated.
00555	Mrs Tamsin Gray	November 2007	F.	Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00556	Mr Matthew Zouche	December 2007	Life	Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00557	Miss Rosamund Collins	August 2008	Assoc.	Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00558	Mrs Philippa Colquhoun	October 2008	Assoc.	Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00559	Miss Lucinda Pinkerton	February 2009	F. (fr.)	Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00560	Dr Adelaide Whitehead	September 2009	F.	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.
00561	Miss Alison Fitzpatrick	April 2010	F. (fr.)	Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00562	Maj. Nicholas Henderson	May 2010	F. (fr.)	Resigned in 2016 in protest at the introduction of biscuits at Committee meetings, on the grounds that "the Society does not eat".
00563	Mrs Rosamund Ferguson	November 2010	Life	Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00564	Mrs Kate O'Neill	March 2011	Assoc.	Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00565	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.
00566	Prof. Mark Wright	April 2011	F.	Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00567	Rev. Michael Jervoise	May 2012	F.
00568	Mr Mark Clarke	July 2012	F. (fr.)	Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00569	Miss Evangeline Whitlock	August 2012	F. (fr.)
00570	Prof. Jonathan Bethers	July 2013	F. (fr.)	Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00571	Mr David Ffoulkes	September 2013	F.	Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00572	Dr Honora Ferguson	February 2014	F.	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.
00573	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.
00574	Mr Giles Fotheringham	June 2016	F. (fr.)	Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00575	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.
00576	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.
00577	Mr John Clark	March 2018	F.	Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00578	Mrs Emma Wigglesworth	March 2018	Assoc.	Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00579	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.
00580	Timothy Macleod	May 2019	F. (fr.)	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.
00581	Mr Simon Vaughan	October 2019	Assoc.	Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00582	Mr Wystan Patel-Higgs	November 2019	F.	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.
00583	Rupert Fraser	February 2021	Assoc.	Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00584	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.
00585	Mrs Henrietta Buchanan	November 2021	F. (fr.)	Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00586	Miss Claire Kettlewell	July 2022	F.	Submitted a complete erratum sheet for her own admission letter on the morning following its acceptance. Six items; all conceded.
00587	Mr Mungo Lavelle	September 2022	F. (fr.)
00588	Miss Annabel Pearce	January 2023	F. (fr.)	Maintained the Society’s running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00589	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.
00590	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.
00591	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.
00592	Prof. Roderick Templeton	October 2024	F.	Holds the chair of Prescriptive Linguistics at Auckland; declined the Foundation Presidency of the Antipodean Chapter on the grounds of insufficient remoteness from London.
00593	Mrs Alison O'Neill	February 2025	Assoc.	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.
00594	Dr Henrietta Mossop	March 2025	F.	President-elect. Doctorate (Lexicography, Edinburgh) on the historical drift of "decimate". Holds the modern view, reluctantly.
00595	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).
00596	Mr Lionel Quesnel	April 2025	F. (fr.)	Known as Lol. First Fellow admitted by electronic submission via the Society's website.
00597	Mrs Cordelia Mainwaring	August 2025	Assoc.	The Society notes that her admission letter contained no fewer than seven em-dashes, all correctly deployed.
00598	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.
00599	Miss Aster Jellicoe	January 2026	Assoc.	Operates the Society's online presence under sufferance.
00600	Mr Bartholomew Quill IV	January 2026	F.	Great-great-grandson of Miss Harriet Quibb. Tradition observed.
00601	Mr Edmund Plumptre	February 2026	Hon.	Honorary Fellowship for compiling the Society's only known schism-era correspondence in its entirety.
00602	Mrs Verity Stannage	February 2026	Assoc.	The Society's youngest currently active Associate Fellow at the age of seventy-nine.
00603	Prof. Magnus Tregennis	February 2026	F.	President-elect (alternate). Holds the chair in Comparative Punctuation at Aberystwyth.
00604	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.
00605	Miss Octavia Pengelly	March 2026	F. (fr.)	Maintains a small but vigorous correspondence on the placement of the Oxford comma in legal documents.
00606	Dr Roderick Whitcombe	March 2026	F.	Submitted his admission letter in iambic pentameter; the Society admitted him without alteration.
00607	Mrs Felicity Boddington	April 2026	Assoc.	The Society's representative for the proposed Antipodean Chapter. Currently resident in Dunedin.
00608	Mr Tobias Pinch	April 2026	F. (fr.)	Admitted on his fourth application; the previous three were returned for grammatical irregularities in the application itself.
00609	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.