1826 Henry Hal lam ^ member of the Club 287 



of a century. He became Admiral and K.C.B. He had 

 been made F.R.S. in 1814. 



Among the other guests of the year most of whom had 

 previously dined with the Club may be mentioned Francis 

 Baily, Sir Stamford Raffles, William Buckland, W. D. 

 Conybeare, Sir Richard Vyvyan, Sir William Eden, Duke of 

 Marlborough, Sir Abraham Hume, Archdeacon Robert Nares, 

 and L. W. Dillwyn. 



1826. At the Anniversary of 1826, held on ist June, when 

 twenty-one members attended and the President took the 

 chair, it was announced that the expenses since the previous 

 Anniversary amounted to 92 75. and that there was a 

 balance in hand of 15 95. 40!., to which there remained to 

 be added unpaid arrears amounting to 12. The subscrip- 

 tion to be paid by each member for the ensuing year was 

 decided to be two pounds. One member's name was 

 removed from the list for non-attendance. Only one vac- 

 ancy had arisen, and Henry Hallam was duly elected to fill 

 it. The accomplished historian had been elected a Fellow 

 of the Royal Society on 8th March 1821, and he had been 

 frequently a guest of the Club. 



There was a marked decrease in the attendance this year 

 at the weekly meetings. Between the middle of March and 

 the end of October there were six dinners at which only one 

 member appeared, and seven to which nobody at all came. 

 Curious irregularities occurred in the summer and autumn. 

 Thus for four weeks from the middle of July to the middle of 

 August no one appeared, but in the second half of the latter 

 month and in the second half of September the attendance 

 was on the whole better than usual. On September 2ist, 

 however, Sir Everard Home had the dinner all to himself 

 an experience which might have brought home to him the 

 inutility of upholding these meetings during the Royal 

 Society's vacation. He evidently made a strong effort to 

 secure a company for the following week. He not only 

 invited three guests himself but seems to have appealed 

 to Mr. Murdoch and Mr. Barrow as tried supporters of the 

 autumn dinners. Both these members obeyed his appeal 



