PORTRAIT OF SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE. 



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PORTRAIT OF SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE. 

 (See Frontispiece.) 



The following letter was sent to all the Fellows in April last : — 



Dear Sir or Madam, — At the last Annual Meeting of our Society, held 

 on February 13, the President, Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., K.C.V.O., 

 V.M.H., completed the twenty-first year of his Presidency. 



When he first took up the office the Society was at a very low ebb 

 indeed, having barely 1,000 Fellows, no buildings of its own, and an 

 annually increasing deficit. Owing in no small measure to Sir Trevor's 

 wise guidance, it now has almost 10,000 Fellows, a magnificent Hall and 

 offices in Vincent Square, Westminster, and at each year's end a sufficient 

 balance to make one feel confident for the immediate future. 



To celebrate Sir Trevor's twenty-one years of office the Council have 

 resolved to invite all the Fellows to subscribe towards having his portrait 

 painted by Professor Herkomer to place in the Society's new buildings, 

 and also to establish in perpetuity a large gold medal to be called " The 

 Lawrence Medal," to be awarded to exhibits of a specially meritorious 

 character at the Society's meetings, the want of such a medal having 

 been felt for a very long time. 



To carry out these projects in a fitting manner, about a thousand 

 guineas will be required, and we hope that you will allow us to put down 

 your name for a subscription. 



Signed, on behalf of the Council, 



J. Gurney Fowler, 



Treasurer. 



The following Fellows subscribed, and the portrait by Professor 

 Herkomer now hangs in the Council Room, and Mr. Gilbert, R.A., has 

 been commissioned to execute the medal : — 



Adams, Herbert J.; Adams, R. H. ; Adamson, Miss; Aird, Sir John; Aldam, 

 Miss K. ; Alexander, W. C. ; Allen, George ; Allen, Mrs. Osborn ; Allfrey, Mrs. ; 

 Anderson, John A. ; Apthorpe, W. H. ; Arbuthnot, Sir Alex. J. ; Arbuthnott, Miss 

 M. F. ; Ardern, Mrs.; Ascherson, E. ; Ashdown, J.; Ashworth, Elijah; Assheton 

 Smith, Mrs. Duff. 



Bain, Wm. ; Baker, J. G. ; Baker, L. J. ; Baker, W. G. ; Balfour of Burleigh, Lord ; 

 Balfour, C. B., M.P. ; Ball, Lt.-Col. E. ; Ballantine, H. ; Banner, Samuel ; Barclay, 

 Col. H. ; Barnett, F. H. ; Barr, Peter ; Barr & Sons ; Barry, Sir Francis Tress ; Barton, 

 Hon. Mrs.; Basham, John; Bates, Wm. ; Bath, B. H., Ltd.; Baxter, Chas. E.; 

 Beckett, Ed. ; Beckton, Miss G. L. ; Beddome, Col. B. H. ; Behrens, Mrs. ; Bell, 

 Sir Chas. Morrison; Bell, Wm. A.; Bell, W. Heward ; Benecke, Miss A.; Bennett- 

 Poe, John T. ; Bennett, Mrs. B. ; Benyon, Mrs.; Bergheim, J. S. ; Bevan, T. ; 

 Biddulph, Miss ; Biddulph, Sir Theophilus ; Bilney, W. A. ; Binning, Lady ; Bird, 

 Arthur; Bishop, Maj.-Gen. H. B. ; Bisschoffsheim, Mrs.; Blackburn, H. B. ; Blyth, 

 P. L. ; Bolton, Wm. ; Bonavia, Dr. ; Bone, Mrs. Mary ; Boscawen, Hon. John ; 



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