Mr Tobias Underwood

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.