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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
PAGES
Antiquity of the Society—State of England at its foundation
—Date of foundation—Date of first records—Character
of original members—Young Englishmen on the Grand
Tour—Choice of name—Earliest meetings—Members
in IJ36 — Dashwood — Middlesex — Harcourt — The
brothers Gray—W. Ponsonby—R. Grenville—Howe,
Archer, Denny, Strode, Sewallis Shirley—Boone, Liddell,
Fauquier, Harris,Dingley,Smithson—Hanbury Williams,
Mitchell, Villiers—Smyth, Hay, Spence, &c.—Sandwich
—Bedford, Brand, Holdernesse—Other members before
1750.........I-XI
CHAPTER II
Practices and regulations of the Society—Places, dates, and
hours of meeting—The President: his toga and curule
chair—The Secretary and Treasurer—The High Steward
—The Arch-Master and his insignia—The Regalia:
Bacchus's Tomb, the Ballot-Box, Seal, and Inkstand—
Dining practices: forfeits and fines—Convivial excesses
—Toasts^—Election practices: qualification, admission,
abdication—Committees and quorums . . . 11-41
CHAPTER HI
Miscellaneous activities ot the Society: the Westminster
Bridge Lottery—Foundation of General Fund : building
schemes—The Cavendish Square site—Its abandonment
and the financial result—Promotion of the Italian opera
—Middlesex and Vanneschi—Schemes for an Academy
of Arts—Mr. Dingley's plan—Communications with
Hayman's Committee of Painters—The Society's plan—
a 3
CHAPTER I
PAGES
Antiquity of the Society—State of England at its foundation
—Date of foundation—Date of first records—Character
of original members—Young Englishmen on the Grand
Tour—Choice of name—Earliest meetings—Members
in IJ36 — Dashwood — Middlesex — Harcourt — The
brothers Gray—W. Ponsonby—R. Grenville—Howe,
Archer, Denny, Strode, Sewallis Shirley—Boone, Liddell,
Fauquier, Harris,Dingley,Smithson—Hanbury Williams,
Mitchell, Villiers—Smyth, Hay, Spence, &c.—Sandwich
—Bedford, Brand, Holdernesse—Other members before
1750.........I-XI
CHAPTER II
Practices and regulations of the Society—Places, dates, and
hours of meeting—The President: his toga and curule
chair—The Secretary and Treasurer—The High Steward
—The Arch-Master and his insignia—The Regalia:
Bacchus's Tomb, the Ballot-Box, Seal, and Inkstand—
Dining practices: forfeits and fines—Convivial excesses
—Toasts^—Election practices: qualification, admission,
abdication—Committees and quorums . . . 11-41
CHAPTER HI
Miscellaneous activities ot the Society: the Westminster
Bridge Lottery—Foundation of General Fund : building
schemes—The Cavendish Square site—Its abandonment
and the financial result—Promotion of the Italian opera
—Middlesex and Vanneschi—Schemes for an Academy
of Arts—Mr. Dingley's plan—Communications with
Hayman's Committee of Painters—The Society's plan—
a 3