Dr Imogen Crosswick

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.