1. Activities

2. Transactions

3. Membership

4. Presidents

5. Vice-Presidents

6. Transactions editors

7. Secretaries

8. Treasurers

9. See also

10. External links

11. Notes and references

The Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society is a historical society and a registered charity (No. 1105708).^[1] It was founded on 21 March 1883 for the education of the public by fostering and promoting the study of any aspects of the archaeology (both traditional and industrial), history, social history, genealogy, architecture and the arts, trade and trades, the history of institutions and local government, customs, and traditions of the area covered by the Palatine counties of Lancashire and Cheshire and succeeding local authorities ranging from antiquity to the twenty-first century.^[2][3][4][5] Although the Society is based upon Manchester, its studies and activities embrace the region.^[6] The society became a registered charity in 2004.

Activities

The society organises a varied programme of lectures and events including visits to exhibitions, libraries, museums, galleries and places of historical, architectural and archaeological interest. The society also possesses an extensive Library of materials relating to the history and antiquities of both counties.

Transactions

The Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society is the society's peer-reviewed periodical which is published annually, and includes papers covering a wide variety of subjects relating to the two counties. The society also produces other publications on occasion. The 110th volume of the society's Transactions was published in 2017.^[7]

Membership

Membership is open to all individuals and societies who are interested in the various historical aspects of the two counties Palatine.

Presidents

• 1883–85 Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins
• 1885–86 Wilbraham Egerton, 1st Lord Egerton of Tatton
• 1886–89 James Ludovic Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford
• 1889–92 Sir William Cunliffe Brooks
• 1892–97 Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire
• 1897–98 Lt-Col. Henry Fishwick
• 1898–99 James Holme Nicholson
• 1899–1900 Charles William Sutton
• 1900–02 Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins
• 1902–03 Rev. Ernest Frederick Letts
• 1903–04 William Edward Armytage Axon
• 1904–05 Henry Taylor
• 1905–06 George Pearson
• 1906–07 Cecil George Savile Foljambe, 1st Earl of Liverpool
• 1907–09 Henry Thomas Crofton
• 1909–10 Lt-Col. Gilbert Joseph French
• 1910–12 Fletcher Moss
• 1912–13 Albert Nicholson
• 1913–14 Rev. Henry Arnold Hudson
• 1914–15 William Harrison
• 1915–16 Nathan Heywood
• 1916–17 Charles Tallent Tallent-Bateman
• 1917–18 Rev. Thomas Cann Hughes
• 1918–19 Robert Peel
• 1919–20 Joseph James Phelps
• 1920–21 Ernest Charles Armytage Axon
• 1921–22 William Self Weeks
• 1922–23 John Swarbrick
• 1923–24 Col. Alan Francis Maclure
• 1924–25 Maj. David Halstead
• 1925–26 Llewellyn Andrew
• 1926–28 Walter Butterworth
• 1928–33 Col. John William Robinson Parker
• 1933–36 John Wilfrid Jackson
• 1936 Robert Wardman
• 1937–41 Alderman Thomas Middleton
• 1941–44 Rev. Canon Thomas Cruddas Porteus
• 1944–46 Arthur John Hawkes
• 1946–49 Dr George Henry Tupling
• 1949–52 William Scholes
• 1952–54 Edmund Ogden
• 1954–58 Professor Roderick Urwick Sayce
• 1958–64 Dr James Alexander Petch
• 1964–67 Robert Norman Dore
• 1967–88 Victor Innes Tomlinson
• 1988–91 Robert Norman Dore
• 1991–94 Dr Leslie Doyle
• 1994–97 Gordon Bradley Hindle
• 1997–2000 Evelyn V. Vigeon
• 2000–03 Walter Bee
• 2003–09 Eric Foster
• 2009–12 Dr Edward F. Cass
• 2012–16 Morris Garratt
• 2016–17 Dr Michael R. Powell
• 2017–present Diana Winterbotham

Vice-Presidents

• 2001–present Diana Winterbotham
• 2001–present Evelyn V. Vigeon
• 2017–present Morris Garratt

Transactions editors

• 1883–85 Rev. Joseph Heaton Stanning
• 1885–1920 Charles William Sutton
• 1907–11 George Pearson
• 1920–21 John G. Birkby
• 1921–34 Rev. Henry Arnold Hudson
• 1934–38 Dr George Henry Tupling
• 1938–49 Arthur John Hawkes
• 1949–54 Dr George Henry Tupling
• 1954–86 Prof. William Henry Chaloner
• 1975–88 Gordon Bradley Hindle
• 1986–87 Dr Dorothy J. Clayton
• 1989–92 Dr Michael R. Powell
• 1989–95 Dr J. F. Wilson
• 1995–2012 Morris Garratt
• 2012–present Dr Stephen F. Collins

Secretaries

• 1883–1908 George Charles Yates
• 1909–19 Joseph James Phelps
• 1919–20 Arthur Albiston Brickhill
• 1920–27 Geoffrey Rogerson Axon
• 1927–36 Robert Wardman
• 1937–44 Dr John Thomas D’Ewart
• 1944–45 Henry Wardale
• 1945–50 Edna M. Richardson
• 1950–58 Herbert Clegg
• 1958–59 Alan J. Saunders
• 1959–64 Robert Norman Dore
• 1964–72 Prof. Owen Ashmore
• 1972–75 Arthur Gordon Rose
• 1975–79 A. Kennerley
• 1979–2013 Morris Garratt
• 2013–present Alice Lock

Treasurers

• 1883–85 Frederick A. Whaite
• 1885–89 Prof. Walter Arthur Copinger
• 1889–99 Thomas Letherbrow
• 1899–1920 William Harrison
• 1920–29 Robert Wardman
• 1929–31 Ernest Acaster
• 1931–35 George Grimshaw
• 1935–44 James William Hampson
• 1944–50 Cllr Charles Phillips Hampson
• 1951–57 Alfred John Lee
• 1957–61 Charles E. P. Rosser
• 1962–88 William John Smith
• 1988–92 Edward Alan Rose
• 1992–99 Terry J. Wyke
• 1999–2002 Edward Alan Rose
• 2002–05 John Stephen Matthews
• 2005–08 G. Salmon
• 2008–12 Edward Alan Rose
• 2012–14 Dr Dorothy J. Clayton
• 2015–present Morris Garratt

See also

• Chetham Society
• Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
• Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
• Lancashire Parish Register Society

External links

• {{official|http://www.landcas.org.uk/}}

Notes and references

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