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28 May 1842
- On 28 May 1842, The Athenaeum carried a notice stating that the preliminary meeting of the proposed Society had been held as planned and chaired by Connop Thirlwall (1797-1875), Bishop of St David's (Wales) and first and longest-serving President of the Philological Society (1842-68).
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The first Philological Society, based in London's Fitzroy Square, was founded in 1792 under the patronage of Thomas Collingwood of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. [5] Its publication was titled The European Magazine, and London Review. [6]
First annual address of the President to the Philological Society delivered at the anniversary meeting, Friday 17th May 1872 by Ellis, Alexander John Conway Hall digital collections https://conwayhallcollections.omeka.net/items/show/1630
4 Quoted in A. J. Ellis,'Second Annual Address of the President to the Philological Society, Delivered at the Anniversary Meeting, Friday, 16th May, 1873', Transactions of the Philological Society (1873-4), 236. 5 H. B. Wheatley,'The Early English Text Society and E J. Furnivall', The Library, 3rd ser. 3 (1912), 4-6, 8. The Philological Society ...
first annual address of the president to the philological society, delivered at the anniversary meeting, friday, 17th may, 1872. Transactions of the Philological Society, 15(1), 1–2. doi:10.1111/j.1467-968x.1874.tb00860.x
It was established in its present form in 1842, consisting partly of members of a society of the same name established at the University of London in 1830 'to investigate and promote the study and knowledge of the structure, the affinities, and the history of languages'.
the Philological Society, where no word is lifeless, how can the President repeat merely the ordinary formulas about the great honour done him by his election1?
