The Pedants' Society

The Register

The Roll of Fellows of the Pedants' Society, in full. Sortable, searchable, and — the Society maintains — substantively accurate.

No. Name Admitted Tier Distinction
00001 Miss Emily Clatterbuck January 1847 Foundation Founding Fellow. Letter to The Times, 14 March 1846.
00002 Rev. Augustus Prout-Whistle January 1847 Foundation Founding Fellow. Presided over the First Schism. d. 1861.
00003 Mrs Ellen Walker February 1847 Foundation Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00004 Mr Bartholomew Whittaker March 1848 Foundation One of three Founding Fellows to insist that the Society's foundation date should be 1846, on the grounds that the planning correspondence began that year. The matter was settled by vote in 1851; he abstained, on principle, from the vote on his own motion.
00005 Cordelia Haversham June 1848 Foundation Submitted the apostrophe in the Society's name.
00006 Mr Frederick Moore March 1849 Foundation Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984; the Subcommittee did not meet, on principle, between 1971 and 1979.
00007 Miss Constance Drewry May 1849 Foundation Wrote, in 1853, the Society's first formal letter of complaint to itself. The Secretary responded in writing the following week. The exchange runs to fourteen letters.
00008 Miss Harriet Quibb February 1850 Foundation Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00009 Humphrey Partington May 1850 Foundation Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00010 Rev. Tobias Pellew October 1850 F. Refused, throughout his Fellowship, to use the Society's official notepaper on the grounds that the watermark was set in italic. Provided his own.
00011 Mr Crispin Evans August 1851 F. Editor, Society Quarterly, 1873–1878.
00012 Miss Beatrice Marchmont August 1851 Foundation Petitioned The Times no fewer than forty-one times on the subject of the split infinitive. Three were published.
00013 Mr Frederick Partington October 1851 Life Drafted a forty-page paper on the misuse of "between you and I", to which no Fellow has ever published a response, the matter having been considered closed.
00014 Sir Marmaduke Catesby February 1852 Life Resigned the Vice-Presidency in 1869, citing the President's use of "whilst" in opening remarks; was reinstated by acclamation at the same meeting after the President withdrew the word.
00015 Col. Arthur Martin September 1852 Life Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00016 Mr Aloysius Hall February 1853 Foundation Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00017 Miss Hortensia Slack June 1853 F. Maintained that the Society's name should properly be "The Society of Pedants" and refused, in writing, to acknowledge the apostrophe. Her letters are filed separately.
00018 Dr Inigo Frome April 1854 F. (fr.) Compiled the Society's first known errata sheet for its own bylaws (1859), running to nine pages. The bylaws have been revised four times since; his errata sheet remains current against the present text.
00019 Miss Charlotte Kennedy August 1854 Foundation Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00020 Brig. Herbert Young January 1855 Life Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00021 Mr Walter Menzies May 1855 Life Once tabled a motion at the AGM, then objected to its wording, and was eventually persuaded to withdraw the objection on a casting vote of his own.
00022 Mr Cyril Marchbanks November 1855 F.
00023 Prof. Mortimer Foster October 1856 Foundation Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00024 Mr Albert Macnamara February 1857 Foundation Insisted, throughout his Fellowship, that the Society's tea-cups be kept on the saucer "for reasons of formality". The matter went to vote in 1881 and he prevailed.
00025 Lady Henrietta Wrayford March 1857 Foundation Convened the first Standing Committee on Female Pedantry in 1862 and dissolved it the following year, having concluded that the distinction was itself ungrammatical.
00026 Mr Quintus Urquhart April 1857 Life Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00027 Miss Martha Turner February 1858 F. Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00028 Mr Alfred Grimble September 1858 Life Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00029 Mr Obadiah Tench September 1858 F. Wrote a 17,000-word memoir of his Fellowship and submitted it to the Society's archive in 1894. It was read by the Curator, who returned it with corrections.
00030 Mr Edwin Quigley November 1858 Life Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00031 Maj. Magnus Brady January 1859 Foundation Consistent throughout.
00032 Mr Hector Cholmondeley January 1859 Foundation Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00033 Rev. Septimus Crumbwell February 1859 F. (fr.) Maintained that "reverend" is an adjective, not a title, and signed his Society correspondence accordingly: "the Reverend Mr Crumbwell". The Society conceded the point in 1864.
00034 Mr Hubert Underhay May 1859 Foundation Defected to the breakaway Society of Pedants in 1872, then returned the following year "on grounds of typographical inferiority". Re-admitted with formal apology to the Membership.
00035 Prof. Eustace Cardigan May 1860 F. Held the Chair of Comparative Punctuation at Durham. Resigned the Society Vice-Presidency in 1873 over the President's failure to use a colon where a semicolon was indicated.
00036 Mrs Margaret Jenkins November 1860 Foundation Refused to attend any meeting after 1879 in protest at the room's acoustics, but continued to submit written objections by post for the following thirty-one years.
00037 Sir Gervase Fitzpatrick April 1861 F. Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00038 Mrs Emily Jones June 1861 F. Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00039 Prof. Horatio Grimble November 1861 Foundation Second President. Compendium of Errors (1868).
00040 Miss Adela Spurling January 1862 Assoc. The Society's first Associate Fellow admitted on the basis of correspondence alone. Her ten-year exchange with the Founding Secretary is the earliest surviving item in the archive.
00041 Mr Cuthbert Flynn April 1862 Foundation Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00042 Sir Percival Goodchild August 1862 Foundation Composed the Society's Latin motto, then immediately disputed his own translation. The dispute remains unresolved in the archive.
00043 Sir Ernest Graham December 1862 Foundation Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00044 Valentine Hughes September 1863 Foundation Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00045 Mr Phineas Galloway April 1864 F.
00046 Miss Catherine Hill May 1864 Foundation Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00047 Lady Georgiana Hawkshaw February 1865 Foundation Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00048 Brig.-Gen. Augustin Carraway October 1866 Life Refused the Presidency in 1881 on the grounds that he had not been personally invited by each Fellow individually. The matter remains unresolved in the archive.
00049 Mr Ebenezer Smith December 1866 F. (fr.) Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00050 Roland Saltonstall February 1867 F. Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00051 Mr Rupert Davis January 1868 Foundation Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00052 Lt-Col. Edmund Colquhoun March 1868 Foundation Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00053 Rev. Mortimer Pugh March 1869 F. Brother of Lt-Col. Reginald Pugh (#00125). The two corresponded weekly for nineteen years on a single point of pronunciation; both maintained the correctness of their position; the Society declined to adjudicate.
00054 Dr Robert Mitchell April 1869 F. (fr.) Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00055 Mr Herbert Davies June 1869 Foundation Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00056 Col. Quintus Vaughan December 1869 Foundation Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00057 Brig. Wilberforce Martin December 1870 F. Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00058 Prof. Charles Partington April 1871 F. Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00059 Mr Horatio Saltonstall August 1871 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00060 Mrs Maude Ramsay December 1871 F. (fr.) Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00061 Lady Rosalind Carshaw April 1872 Foundation Founded the Society's Ladies' Subcommittee on Correct Form. Resigned the chair in 1894 over a disputed semicolon.
00062 Col. Rupert Feverstone-Mainwaring April 1872 Life Author, 'On The Semi-colon' (1873). d. 1901.
00063 Mortimer Honeyfield July 1872 F. Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00064 Mrs Hyacinth Dewar July 1872 F. (fr.) Resigned in 1888 on the discovery that she had, in a Society publication of 1879, used "comprised of"; refused readmission for three years thereafter, on the same grounds, despite the Society's repeated offer to consider the matter closed.
00065 Mrs Eustacia Trenholm September 1872 F. (fr.) Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00066 Dr Cornelius Pemble March 1873 F. Insisted, until his death, that "data" is a plural noun. The Society maintains his view.
00067 Mr Cedric Quigley May 1873 F. Held the unbroken Society record for points of order raised in a single meeting: forty-one, at the AGM of 1894. The meeting was abandoned at item three of the agenda.
00068 William Winterbottom July 1873 F. (fr.) Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00069 Prof. Wilberforce Harris August 1873 Life Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00070 Mrs Blanche Gordon October 1873 F. Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00071 Maj. Cyril Whistle July 1874 F. Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00072 Prof. Herbert Allen November 1874 Life Resigned the Chair of the Standing Committee on Hyphenation in 1898, citing exhaustion. The Committee was thereafter unable to elect a replacement, the candidates disagreeing on the hyphenation of "co-Chair".
00073 Mr Leonard Cameron November 1874 Life Chair, Committee on the Semi-colon, 1902.
00074 Mr Alfred Cholmondeley December 1874 Life Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00075 Mr Cyril Sopwith February 1875 F. Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00076 Rev. Horace Faversham July 1875 F. (fr.) Maintained a 38-year correspondence with The Spectator on the proper use of "whence". The Spectator published one letter, in 1898, with a subediting alteration he never forgave.
00077 Miss Maud Allen September 1875 Assoc. Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00078 Mr Cedric Thistlewood October 1875 F. (fr.) Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00079 Theobald Pilkington January 1876 F. Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00080 Mr Neville Llewelyn May 1876 F. Voted "Aye" to a motion in 1882, then immediately submitted a written objection on the grounds that he had intended "Yea". The Secretary recorded both, with a note.
00081 Mrs Gertrude Harris August 1876 F. Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00082 Lt-Col. Horace Gray October 1876 F. (fr.) Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00083 Prof. John Buckle April 1877 F. Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00084 Mr Horatio Urquhart September 1877 F. Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00085 Maj. Ernest Nethercott January 1878 F. Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00086 Lt-Col. Cedric Lacey February 1878 F. (fr.)
00087 Dame Agatha Anderson February 1879 F. Curator of the Register, 1889–1921.
00088 Lady Elizabeth Thistlewood February 1879 F. Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00089 Mrs Elsie Wigglesworth October 1879 F. Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00090 Mr Lysander Twigg November 1879 F. The Society's first Fellow to be elected, struck off, readmitted, and re-struck-off within a single calendar year (1894). The Curator notes that the dates were correctly minuted.
00091 Rev. Mortimer Pugh February 1880 F. Author of The Tyranny of Loose Punctuation (Cassell, 1891).
00092 Walter Wood February 1880 Life Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00093 Cedric Quibb May 1880 F. (fr.) Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00094 Mr Bertram Hunt July 1880 Life Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00095 Mr Cyril Kettlewell October 1880 Assoc. Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00096 Mr Edwin Colquhoun February 1881 F. Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00097 Mr Crispus Whitelaw March 1881 F. Held the floor at the 1889 AGM until 11.40 p.m. on a point of order which he had himself raised. The meeting reconvened at 9 a.m. the following morning, at which point he resumed.
00098 Dr Arthur Baker May 1881 F. Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00099 Brig. Charles MacDonald November 1881 F. (fr.) Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00100 Mrs Edith Sopwith March 1882 F. Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00101 Miss Aurelia Cropthorne June 1882 Assoc. Wrote, between 1885 and 1923, a series of forty-one letters to The Times correcting a single sub-editor's use of the en-dash. The sub-editor predeceased her by eleven years.
00102 Mr Clarence Jervoise July 1882 F.
00103 Mrs Drusilla Colquhoun January 1883 F. (fr.)
00104 Mr Sidney O'Donovan September 1883 Life Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00105 Sir Vivian Methuen October 1883 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in February 1907 in recognition of his sustained defence of the requirement that Society minutes be taken in cursive script, and barred from attending meetings on the same grounds, the Society finding itself unable otherwise to transact its business.
00106 Mr Crispian Feverstone January 1884 F. Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00107 Albert Bell March 1884 F.
00108 Mr John Morris April 1884 F. (fr.) Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00109 Capt. Basil Plumtree September 1884 Life Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00110 Dr Octavius Bramble January 1885 F. Submitted, in 1898, a draft revision of the Society's bylaws running to 412 pages, with a covering letter recommending its adoption "as a working draft only". The Society is understood to have set it aside.
00111 Mr Bertram Ashworth March 1885 F. Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00112 Maj. Arthur Lee July 1885 F. Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00113 Mr Neville ffrench December 1885 F. Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00114 Mr Clement Baker February 1886 F. Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00115 Mr Ernest Stewart February 1886 F. (fr.)
00116 Mr Bertram Whicker April 1886 F.
00117 Mr Basil McLoughlin July 1886 Assoc. Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00118 Rev. Dr Bartholomew Nesbit September 1887 F. Ejected 1889, reinstated 1891, ejected 1892.
00119 Mr Charles Norrington September 1887 F. Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00120 Mrs Olive Plumb September 1887 F. (fr.) Maintained, throughout her Fellowship, that "Mrs" should be followed by a full stop in all formal contexts. The Society's letterhead was altered in her honour in 1903 and altered back in 1947, after her death.
00121 George Galbraith November 1887 Assoc.
00122 Mr Frederick Fraser January 1888 Life Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00123 Mr Herbert Harrison March 1888 Life Tabled the same motion concerning the spelling of "judgement" at every Annual Meeting from 1891 to 1934. The motion was defeated forty-three times.
00124 Col. Reginald Marchant December 1888 Life Resigned the chairmanship of the 1901 Punctuation Tribunal mid-meeting, citing a misplaced semicolon in the order of business; was prevailed upon to resume after a fifteen-minute recess.
00125 Lt-Col. Reginald Pugh June 1889 Life Brother of the Rev. Mortimer Pugh. Quarrelled with him by post, weekly, for nineteen years.
00126 Miss Millicent Whitcombe August 1889 Assoc. Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00127 Brig. Harry Urquhart November 1889 F. Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00128 Miss Prudence Vellacott March 1890 Assoc. The Society's first Fellow to submit a written objection to her own admission letter; the objection ran to three pages and was, the Curator notes, well taken.
00129 Mrs Blanche Anderson April 1890 Assoc. Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00130 Mr Thomas Strachan May 1890 F. (fr.) Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00131 Lt-Col. Theobald Haversham December 1890 F. Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00132 Prof. Algernon Frost August 1891 F.
00133 Mr George Heatherington October 1891 F. Committee on Orthographic Drift, 1923.
00134 Capt. Crispian Hughes December 1891 F. (fr.) Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00135 Sidney O'Callaghan February 1892 F. Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00136 Mr Ernest Kelly June 1892 F. Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00137 Mr Percival Duffy January 1893 F. Resigned in 1911, citing "an irreconcilable difference of opinion with myself"; was talked round at the next meeting and re-admitted without ceremony.
00138 Prof. Wilfred Macpherson April 1893 F. Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00139 Rev. Hubert Pinch May 1893 F. Convened the Society's Committee on the Subjunctive in 1907 and continued as its sole member until his death in 1934. The Committee is still notionally extant, no successor having been appointed.
00140 Miss Prudence Witherington October 1893 Life Raised the Apostrophe Objection, 1998 EGM.
00141 Dame Cornelia Thistlewood April 1894 F. (fr.) Held the floor for two hours and forty minutes at the 1909 AGM on the subject of the Oxford comma; the meeting was adjourned without reaching a vote, and she was thereafter known as the Standing Member.
00142 Mr Theodore Whicker July 1894 F. (fr.) Known to all as Teddy.
00143 Mr Ulick Mossop October 1894 F. (fr.) Petitioned the Society in 1912 for the introduction of a formal grievance procedure; chaired the resulting working group, which met seventeen times without producing a draft.
00144 Mr Arthur Macnamara December 1894 F.
00145 Mr Mortimer Cholmondeley January 1895 F. Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00146 Dr Edwin Mountstuart June 1895 F.
00147 Mrs Lilian Partington December 1895 Life Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00148 Lady Felicity Brougham February 1896 Foundation The principal author of the Society's 1899 standing rebuke to the use of "alright"; the rebuke was so comprehensively drafted that no Fellow has subsequently attempted to extend it.
00149 Rev. Cedric O'Neill March 1896 Assoc. Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00150 Col. Theobald Moore September 1896 F. Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00151 Mrs Elizabeth Grimshaw November 1896 F. (fr.) Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00152 Arthur Bramble March 1897 Life Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00153 Rev. Ernest Jones April 1897 F. Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to the use of "literally" as an intensifier, then withdrew it for revision in 1923. The revision was never completed.
00154 Mr Albert Lacey June 1897 F. Committee on Orthographic Drift, 1923.
00155 Mr Septimus Cathcart June 1897 F. Resigned in 1908 over the President's use of "between you and I" at the AGM; the Society notes that the President had used the construction in jest, but that this was not held to be a defence.
00156 Neville Thistlewood August 1897 F. (fr.) Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00157 Frederick Powell May 1898 F. Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00158 Percival Vaughan August 1898 F. (fr.) Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00159 Mr Cyril Witherington August 1898 F. Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00160 Dr Penelope Hawkridge November 1898 F. Submitted, in 1922, the only known motion to be carried unanimously without amendment in the Society's history; the matter was a one-line condemnation of the use of "irregardless".
00161 Frederick Buntley March 1899 F.
00162 Mr Bartholomew Gresham April 1899 Life President during the Second Schism (1924). Rumoured to have written all schismatic correspondence himself — on both sides — to ensure the prose was up to standard.
00163 Mr Clement Morris July 1899 F. (fr.) Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00164 Miss Mary Jenkins March 1900 F. Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00165 Mr Cassius Wrenfield April 1900 F.
00166 Mr Cedric Evans May 1900 Life Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00167 Mr Edwin Hill September 1900 Assoc.
00168 Brig. Eustace Sopwith November 1900 F. Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00169 Dr Cedric Wetherall January 1901 Life Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00170 Mr Wilberforce Bramble May 1901 F. Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00171 Charles Wilson July 1901 F. Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00172 Mr Bertram Wolstencroft January 1902 F.
00173 Ernest Richardson February 1902 Life Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00174 Mr Eustace Shaw June 1902 Life Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00175 Miss Letitia Pomeroy July 1902 Assoc. Maintained the Society's first index of misused apostrophes on London tradesmen's signage from 1908 to 1939; the index ran to nine bound volumes and was destroyed in the Blitz.
00176 Mr Reginald Hall December 1902 F. (fr.) Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00177 Charles Lacey June 1903 F. Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00178 Miss Verity Watson December 1903 Assoc. Signatory, Salzburg Revisionist Statement, 1908.
00179 Maj. Harry Turner March 1904 F. (fr.) Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00180 Col. Eustace Montagu June 1904 F.
00181 Mr Neville Ramsay August 1904 F. (fr.) Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00182 Brig. Aloysius Murchison October 1904 Life Held the floor for the entirety of the 1923 EGM, the meeting having been called to discuss a single comma in the bylaws; the comma was retained.
00183 The Hon. Evelyn Clatterbuck February 1905 F. Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00184 Dr Eustace Jenkins August 1905 F. Chaired the Sub-committee on the Apostrophe in "who's" from 1932 to his death in 1958. No report was issued; no successor was appointed.
00185 Mrs Rosalind Llewellyn June 1906 F. (fr.) Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00186 Mrs Verity Patel July 1906 F. Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00187 Mr Sidney Ffoulkes November 1906 F.
00188 Dr Henry Faversham December 1906 F. Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00189 Lady Cressida Brunton-Vane February 1907 F. President 1928–1934. Refused to accept the typewriter into Society correspondence until 1932.
00190 Mr Theodore Whitcombe March 1907 F. Resigned in 1919, citing exhaustion with "the modern manner of speaking"; readmitted in 1924 after a Fellow pointed out that "the modern manner" had itself been condemned by the Society in 1869.
00191 Mr Bertram Lewis May 1907 Assoc. Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00192 Mr Cecil Harris June 1907 F. (fr.) Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00193 Percival Jackson December 1907 F. (fr.) Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00194 Mr Horace Richardson April 1908 Assoc. Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00195 Mrs Millicent Faversham September 1908 Life Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00196 Prof. Horatio Bowen November 1908 F. Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00197 Sir Harry Owens December 1908 F. (fr.)
00198 Mr Basil Lethbridge February 1909 F. (fr.) Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00199 Mr Cyril Silverstein March 1909 F. (fr.) Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00200 Mr Cecil Lewis April 1909 F. Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00201 Wilfred Sackville August 1909 F. (fr.)
00202 Mr Frederick Featherstone March 1910 Life Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00203 Mr Edwin Scott July 1910 Life
00204 Prof. Lilian Jones September 1910 F. Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00205 Basil Thomas February 1911 Life Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00206 Miss Euphemia Bulstrode May 1911 F. Founding member, Sub-committee on the Apostrophe (1931).
00207 Mrs Beatrice Lockyer May 1911 F. Once tabled a motion to reduce the number of points of order permitted in any single meeting; the motion was itself ruled out of order, on a point of order, raised by herself.
00208 Rev. Wilberforce Fotheringham June 1911 F. Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00209 Dame Annie Wetherby August 1911 F. Submitted forty-seven amendments to the Society's bylaws between 1928 and 1953, each of which corrected a single comma. Forty-two were adopted.
00210 John Smith April 1912 Assoc. Identity never verified. Subscription paid in cash until 1923.
00211 Mr Arthur Duncan September 1912 F. Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00212 Mr Wilfred Standing October 1912 F. (fr.)
00213 Stanley Ffoulkes February 1913 F. Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00214 Henry O'Callaghan August 1913 Life Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00215 Miss Nellie Edwards September 1913 F. Resigned the Chair of the Membership Committee in 1934 on the grounds that her own admission letter had contained a split infinitive, which she had only that week noticed. The resignation was refused.
00216 Dr Ernest Prout September 1913 F. Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00217 Dr Cornelius Frampton February 1914 F. Author of the 1922 monograph "On the Decline of the Subjunctive in Public Life", which was reviewed favourably in The Times and entered the Society's archive marked "to be replied to". No reply has yet been entered.
00218 Norman Thompson June 1914 F. Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00219 Miss Doris Whistle August 1914 F. Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00220 Mr George Scroggins March 1915 F. Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00221 Miss Winifred Thrale June 1915 Assoc. Resigned in 1927 in protest at the President's adoption of a typewriter; readmitted in 1939 on the President's death.
00222 Mrs Edith McGregor January 1916 Life Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00223 Baroness Doris Wolstencroft March 1916 F. (fr.) Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00224 Mr Geoffrey Dewhurst November 1916 F. Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00225 Mr Reginald Wycherley December 1916 F. Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00226 Alan Foster October 1917 Life
00227 Sir Hereward Coxon November 1917 Life Held the post of Society Treasurer from 1924 to 1968, throughout which time he refused to acknowledge the existence of the Antipodean Chapter, despite that body not having been formed until 2019.
00228 Dr Alan Bramble March 1918 F.
00229 Mr John Hill July 1918 Assoc. Threatened to resign in 1931 over the introduction of carbon-paper for meeting minutes; was prevailed upon to remain on condition that the originals were retained.
00230 Mr Eric Munro February 1919 Life Founding member, Sub-committee on the Apostrophe (1931).
00231 Prof. Millicent Dauntry March 1919 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in October 1944 in recognition of her tireless enforcement of the 1903 standing order requiring all references to authors to be footnoted in their entirety; barred from meetings on the same grounds, the Society having been unable otherwise to conclude an item of business since 1938.
00232 Mr Bernard O'Brien June 1920 F. (fr.) Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00233 Mr Ezra Quinton July 1920 F. Maintained, in writing, that the verb "to type" was a vulgarism, until 1971, at which date he conceded the point in a typed letter.
00234 Sir Norman Ashworth December 1921 Assoc. Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00235 Mrs Florence Stourton February 1922 Life Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00236 Frederick Evans August 1922 Life Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00237 Mrs Adelaide Pemberton September 1922 F. (fr.) Resigned upon discovering a comma splice in her own admission letter from twelve years prior; the resignation was accepted, the comma splice having been overlooked at the time.
00238 Mr Alan Matheson March 1923 Assoc. Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00239 Miss Prudence Wakefield June 1923 F. First Fellow to insist on the Oxford comma in the Society's bylaws. Resignation threatened twice; both times rescinded, both times in the same letter.
00240 Mr James Bethers November 1923 F. Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00241 Prof. Geoffrey Walker March 1924 F. Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00242 Anaru Rapata November 1924 Assoc. Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00243 Lt-Col. Crispin Outerbridge December 1924 Life Refused, on principle, to be addressed by his Christian name in Society correspondence; the Secretary's failure to comply, in 1937, prompted a four-year refusal to attend meetings, lifted only on the Secretary's retirement.
00244 William Strachan January 1925 Assoc. Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00245 Mr Cyril Patel October 1925 Life Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00246 Stanley Yardley November 1925 F. Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00247 Mr Henry Colquhoun March 1926 F.
00248 Mr Lionel Faraday April 1926 F.
00249 Mr Norman Harringay June 1926 Assoc. Once interrupted a Fellow's funeral oration to correct the deceased's middle name; the family is understood to have written.
00250 Prof. Reginald Palmer August 1927 F. Author of the Society's 1949 monograph "On the Loss of the Vocative", which runs to 263 pages and which no Fellow is reliably reported to have read in full.
00251 Baroness Kavita Krishnan March 1928 F. (fr.) Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00252 Mr Leonard Gordon May 1928 F. Held the floor at the 1956 EGM until he had read the entirety of his prepared remarks, despite the meeting having been adjourned in his eleventh minute. The remarks survive in the archive.
00253 Dame Cecily Hatherleigh August 1928 Foundation Held the floor at the 1939 AGM for two hours and eleven minutes on the subject of the proper use of the comma in lists of three; the meeting subsequently adopted her position by acclamation, the alternative being a further hearing.
00254 Miss Marjorie Bailey January 1929 F. Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00255 Rev. Douglas Quinn February 1929 F. Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00256 Mr Walter Hambleton October 1929 Assoc. Donated the lectern still in use at the Annual General Meeting. Reputedly carved by his uncle, who was not a Fellow.
00257 Mr Elias Penrith March 1930 F. Drafted a letter of resignation seven times between 1947 and 1962, each time citing a different grievance; on each occasion withdrew the letter at the next meeting after a private conversation with the Secretary.
00258 Miss Margaret Duncan October 1930 F. Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00259 Sister Jean Whistle March 1931 Life Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00260 Mr Eric King August 1931 Life
00261 Miss Jocasta Wakelin September 1931 Assoc. The Society's first Fellow to be admitted, struck off, and readmitted three times in the same week, in March 1955; the Curator's marginal note reads "the matter is now considered settled".
00262 Mr Alan Quibb October 1931 F. (fr.) Author, 'A Short History of the Colon' (1956).
00263 Mrs Gladys Nethercott May 1932 F. Author, 'Against the Split Infinitive' (1959).
00264 Miss Doris Featherstone October 1932 F. (fr.)
00265 Brig. Harry Teasdale January 1933 F. Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00266 James Cavendish October 1933 Assoc. Author, 'A Short History of the Colon' (1956).
00267 Mrs Evelyn Buchanan December 1933 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00268 Rev. Dr Caspar Threlfall February 1934 F.
00269 The Hon. Beryl Walsh April 1934 F. Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00270 Dr Algernon Tipping May 1934 F. Maintained, against considerable resistance, that "octopuses" is preferable to "octopi". The Society now agrees.
00271 Reginald Davis June 1934 F. (fr.) Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00272 Col. Eric Sackville September 1934 F. (fr.) Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00273 Miss Betty Reid April 1935 F. Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00274 Dame Annie Murray November 1935 F. Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00275 Miss Shanti Mukherjee December 1935 F. Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00276 Prof. Ignatius Carmody June 1936 F. Submitted, in 1958, a 92-page paper on the proper plural of "octopus"; the paper concluded that all three plurals were defensible, which was held to be insufficient.
00277 Dr Henry Harrison December 1936 Life Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00278 Mr Eric Honeyfield March 1937 Life Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00279 Mrs Winifred Grant May 1937 Assoc. Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00280 Capt. Robert Vane November 1937 Assoc. Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00281 Mr Hohepa Parata January 1938 Assoc. Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00282 Mr Hemi Paora May 1938 F. Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00283 Mr Galahad Truscott November 1938 F. (fr.) Resigned in 1956 in protest at the introduction of the postcode; readmitted in 1971 after a private apology from the Postmaster-General, which the Society had not requested but accepted.
00284 Mr Geoffrey O'Sullivan December 1938 Assoc. Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00285 Prof. Edward Johnston June 1939 F. Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00286 Norman Lee February 1940 F. Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00287 Miss Muriel Williams May 1940 F. Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00288 Miss Vera Colquhoun June 1940 Life Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00289 Mr Ambrose Whitwell April 1941 F. Convened the Sub-committee on Wartime Usage in 1942 and continued to do so until 1979, the Sub-committee having outlived the war by thirty-four years.
00290 Maj. Ravi Chowdhury June 1941 F. (fr.) Fellow, Committee on Usage, 1961–1969.
00291 Rev. Robert Clatterbuck July 1941 F. Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00292 Mr Raymond Digby December 1941 Life Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00293 Mr James Collins October 1942 F. Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00294 Miss Honoria Lacey September 1943 Assoc.
00295 Mrs Rangi Taranaki November 1943 F. (fr.) Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00296 Prof. Reginald Kettlewell April 1944 F. (fr.) Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00297 George Feverstone September 1944 Assoc. Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00298 Capt. Ian MacDonald January 1945 Assoc. Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00299 Dr Bertram Quill January 1945 F. Author of the Society's 1961 paper "On the Pernicious Spread of the Indefinite Article", which proposed the adoption of a specific marker for indefiniteness in English; the proposal was politely set aside.
00300 Prof. Leslie Walsh July 1945 F. (fr.) Resigned in 1964 over the use of "workshop" as a verb in the Annual Programme; the Society notes that no Fellow attempted to dissuade him.
00301 Mr Jeremy Edwards February 1946 Assoc. Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00302 Mr Tristram Lee July 1946 F. Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00303 Prof. Christine ffrench November 1946 Assoc. Insisted upon the lower-case "ff" in her surname and submitted forty-two corrections to the Society's correspondence on the matter between 1947 and 1989.
00304 Dame Celia Beauchamp April 1947 Assoc. Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984.
00305 Mr Ronald Weiss April 1947 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00306 Mrs Henrietta Foulkes June 1947 F. (fr.) Held the Society's record for resignations in a single year (eleven, in 1962); each resignation was subsequently retracted, and each retraction was minuted as a separate item.
00307 Mrs Susan Cooper July 1947 F. (fr.) Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00308 Capt. Roderick Bligh August 1947 Life Survived the Crete campaign with the Society's Compendium of Errors in his pack. The volume, water-damaged, remains in the archive.
00309 Mr Richard Smith November 1947 Assoc. Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00310 Mrs Catherine Fitzgerald January 1948 Assoc. Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00311 Mr Cyril Bodkin March 1948 Assoc.
00312 Mr Geoffrey Partington March 1948 F. (fr.) Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00313 Miss Brenda Collins May 1948 Life Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00314 Sir Bartholomew Hesketh October 1948 Life Refused, in 1953, to acknowledge the existence of the radio; refused, in 1969, to acknowledge the existence of the television; was prevailed upon to acknowledge the telephone in 1978, on condition of its being referred to as "the telephone" in full.
00315 Mrs Phoebe Edwards November 1948 Assoc.
00316 Mrs Mary Ashworth January 1949 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00317 Miss Helen Murray May 1949 F. Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00318 Col. Trevor Russell November 1949 Life Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00319 Maj. Peter Young November 1949 F. (fr.) Fellow, Committee on Usage, 1961–1969.
00320 Prof. Maud Blandford March 1950 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in May 1973 in recognition of her sustained insistence on the strict observance of the 1923 ruling that all Society votes be conducted by raised hand and counted twice; barred from meetings, the Society having found itself unable to conclude a vote in her presence since 1968.
00321 Mr Rajesh Das April 1950 F. (fr.) Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00322 Miss Jemima Throckmorton April 1950 Assoc.
00323 Mr Jonathan Urquhart March 1951 F. Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00324 Mr Derek Clatterbuck June 1951 F. Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00325 Neil O'Callaghan July 1951 Life
00326 Tristram Ramsay August 1951 Assoc. Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00327 Mr Roderick Trant August 1951 F. Resigned in 1964 over the use of "hopefully" as a sentence adverb in the Annual Programme; the Society notes that the usage had been inadvertent and that the offending word had since been replaced by "it is to be hoped that".
00328 Dr Celia White February 1952 Assoc. Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00329 Dr Nigel Vaughan March 1952 Life Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00330 Sir Anthony Nesbitt September 1952 F. (fr.)
00331 Mrs Cordelia Saltonstall January 1953 Life Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00332 Miss Constance Eckersley April 1953 F. Compiled, by hand, the Society's index of misused gerunds (1958, unpublished, 412 pp.).
00333 Jeremy Murray December 1953 F. (fr.)
00334 Miss Patience Coverdale December 1953 Assoc. The Society's first Associate Fellow to be admitted by telegram; the telegram contained a typographical error, which she successfully argued was the telegraphist's, and was admitted on the corrected reading.
00335 Sir Tama Pōmare April 1954 F. (fr.) Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00336 Baroness Linda Lewis August 1954 F. (fr.) Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00337 Mr Jasper Wedderburn April 1955 F.
00338 Prof. Susan Lewis July 1955 F. Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00339 Mrs Penelope Harris November 1955 Assoc. Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00340 Mrs Henrietta Frome June 1956 F. Compiled the Society's first index of split infinitives in published works (3 vols., 1962–1971). Mother of Dr Ottilie Frome.
00341 Jeremy Pembroke June 1956 Life Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00342 Dr Helena Bristow September 1956 F. (fr.) Resigned the Vice-Presidency in 1972 over a misplaced apostrophe in a notice of meeting; was reinstated by the same notice's reissue, with the apostrophe corrected, the following day.
00343 Miss Janet Wodehouse October 1956 F. Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00344 Brig. Michael Collins December 1956 Assoc. Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00345 Mrs Christine Honeyfield March 1957 Assoc.
00346 Prof. Jennifer Bethers April 1957 Assoc. Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00347 Dr Gillian Owens May 1957 Assoc. Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00348 Brig. Anselm Dorrington February 1958 Life Held a thirty-year correspondence with the BBC on the pronunciation of "Caribbean"; the BBC, in 1989, conceded that both pronunciations were defensible, which he held to be a defeat.
00349 Rev. Robert Fraser May 1958 F. (fr.)
00350 Maj. Robert Green July 1958 Assoc. Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00351 Mr Bertram Hogarth September 1958 Assoc. Known to all as Bert. The Society notes 56 years of upstanding service and the donation of his estate. Mr Hogarth was not eligible for Life Fellowship as he spent eight days in 1972 as a Fellow of the breakaway Society of Pedants, before his understanding evolved and he returned to us.
00352 The Hon. Ronald ffrench October 1958 F. (fr.) Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00353 Mr Norman Buntley February 1959 Life Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00354 Mr Wilberforce Catton June 1959 F. Held the floor at the 1968 EGM until the meeting was adjourned in his fourth hour; the matter under discussion was the proper position of the apostrophe in "1960s", which the Society has not since revisited.
00355 Rev. Barry Witherington July 1959 F. Holder of the Chair of Prescriptive Grammar.
00356 Maj. Ronald Phillips May 1960 F. (fr.) Recipient, Haversham Medal for Services to Punctuation, 1988.
00357 Miss Huia Parata July 1960 F. Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00358 Mrs Pearl Verwood October 1960 F. Maintained, throughout her Fellowship, a private register of the Society's own typographical errors; the register, on her death in 1998, ran to 4,217 entries, of which fewer than thirty had been notified to the Secretary.
00359 Amit Dasgupta June 1961 F. (fr.) Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00360 Mr Nitin Ray June 1961 F. Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00361 Mr Neil Buchanan August 1961 F. Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00362 Mrs Saraswati Menon August 1961 F. Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00363 Mrs Judith Thorneycroft February 1962 Assoc. Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00364 Mr Cosmo Larking March 1962 F. (fr.)
00365 Capt. Keith Jervoise November 1962 F. Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00366 Mr Wilfred Marchbank November 1962 Life President 1985–1991. Banned the word "gotten" from Society publications during his tenure; the prohibition was quietly restored under his successor.
00367 Mr Terence Verney November 1962 Assoc. Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00368 Mr Reginald Zouche December 1962 F. (fr.) Spent eleven years compiling a card-index of split infinitives in The Times, abandoned in 1985 on the grounds that the project had become disheartening.
00369 Mr Roderick Gatacre April 1963 F. (fr.) Notable contributor to the 1998 Apostrophe Debate; voted with the majority, then changed sides.
00370 Mr Alaric Macnamara June 1963 Assoc. Insisted on the long S until 1968.
00371 Miss Verity Hassall September 1963 Assoc. Resigned in 1979 in protest at the Society's adoption of a stapler; readmitted in 1984 on the discovery that the stapler had not, in fact, been used.
00372 Mrs Anne Ross November 1963 F. (fr.) Held that 'unique' admits no qualifier, and said so in the affirmative six times in one meeting.
00373 Roger Pritchard February 1964 F. Notable for never ending a sentence in a preposition; preferred silence.
00374 Miss Carol Baker August 1964 Assoc. Author of the Society's pamphlet on the proper plural of 'octopus' (1972).
00375 Dr Neil Quibb January 1965 Assoc. Resigned in 2005 in protest at the Society's standing arrangement with a printer who used straight quotes; declined re-admission on the same grounds in 2008, 2012, and 2019.
00376 Mr Selwyn Quill March 1965 F. (fr.) Refused, throughout his Fellowship, to acknowledge the gerund-participle distinction; the Society allowed it as a personal eccentricity.
00377 Rev. Barry Brady April 1965 F. Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00378 Dr Maxim Pertwee May 1965 F. Author of the Society's 1971 standing objection to the verb "to access"; the objection has been reissued, with minor revisions, in every subsequent decade.
00379 Miss Maureen Phillips September 1965 F. Maintained that 'data' takes a plural verb. Was not contradicted.
00380 Col. Vijay Iyer November 1965 F. (fr.) Holder of the Chair of Prescriptive Grammar.
00381 Col. Jeremy Evans June 1966 F. Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00382 Mr Neil Fitzgerald October 1966 F. Refused to refer to the Society for Pedantry (Dublin) by its proper name.
00383 Mr Keith Winstanley November 1966 F. Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00384 Prof. Daphne Underhill November 1966 F. Held the Society's record for the longest single sentence ever submitted to its archive: 4,217 words, in a 1989 paper on the misuse of the semicolon; the sentence was, the Curator notes, grammatically correct throughout.
00385 Miss Margaret Connolly April 1967 Assoc. Author of an unpublished manuscript on the misuse of 'literally' in sports commentary.
00386 Mrs Joan Macnamara August 1967 F. Voted against herself, in error, at the 1979 EGM, and refused to retract.
00387 Mr Clive Baker October 1967 F. Donated a personal copy of Fowler's, annotated in three colours of ink.
00388 Mr Roy Wigglesworth March 1968 Life Recipient, Haversham Medal for Services to Punctuation, 1988.
00389 Mr Ernest Castelnau April 1968 Life Convened the Society's Committee on Modern Usage in 1971 and chaired it until 2002, at which date the Committee was discharged without report; the discharge was minuted in twelve words, which Mr Castelnau is understood to have considered a slight.
00390 Lance Bethers May 1968 F. Member of the Society's first Internet Sub-committee, 1999. Remained sceptical throughout.
00391 Dr Ottilie Frome May 1968 F. Continued her mother's index of split infinitives. The fourth volume is understood to be forthcoming.
00392 The Hon. Derek Ogilvy August 1968 F. (fr.) Author of an unpublished monograph against 'try and' for 'try to'.
00393 Maj. Brian Yardley September 1968 Assoc. Author of 'On the Improper Use of "Disinterested"' (1985).
00394 Mr Norman Powell February 1969 Assoc. Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00395 Miss Deirdre Thomas February 1969 F. (fr.) Compiled the Society's standing list of objectionable Americanisms (revised quarterly).
00396 Mr Jonathan Powell October 1969 F. (fr.) Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00397 Mr Clive Mackay February 1970 F. Author of a celebrated rebuke to the use of 'fulsome' as a compliment.
00398 Mr Geraint Pellew June 1970 F. Resigned in 1989 over the introduction of the photocopier; readmitted in 1994 on condition that any photocopied material be marked "(reproduction)" in the Fellow's own hand.
00399 Mr Peter Cook October 1970 F. (fr.) Held a 23-year correspondence with The Times Literary Supplement on the use of 'comprise'.
00400 Prof. Iris Sandown February 1971 Hon. Honorary Fellowship in recognition of her unilateral campaign against the spread of "literally" as an intensifier.
00401 Prof. Tristram Murray March 1971 F. Wrote the standing rebuke to the misuse of 'momentarily' in airline announcements.
00402 Ian Patel June 1971 F. (fr.) Believed 'penultimate' should mean 'utmost', and lost.
00403 Miss Alison Bowen October 1971 F. (fr.) Author of the 1979 paper 'On the Mispronunciation of "Forte"'.
00404 Miss Rosamund Tyrell October 1971 Assoc. Submitted, between 1973 and 1991, a series of 162 letters to the Secretary on the proper use of the colon; the Secretary acknowledged each by return.
00405 Miss Penelope Richardson May 1972 F. Member, Sub-committee on the proper deployment of 'whilst' (1977).
00406 Dr Gideon Whitstable March 1973 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in November 1996 in recognition of his unwavering enforcement of the 1947 ruling that the Society's tea be served at precisely 4.00 p.m.; barred from meetings, on the grounds that no meeting had concluded its third item of business before 4.00 p.m. since 1981.
00407 Dr Prunella Thorneycroft July 1973 F.
00408 Miss Ophelia Trent August 1973 Assoc. Forty-one years a copy editor at three London publishing houses. The Society notes the correct deployment of the Oxford comma in her testamentary dispositions.
00409 Alaric Grimble November 1973 Assoc. Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00410 Miss Barbara Rhys April 1974 F.
00411 Prof. Rosemary James June 1974 F. Maintained, throughout, that the Society Secretary's typing was below standard.
00412 Mr Anaru Kōhere July 1974 F. (fr.) Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00413 Mrs Iolanthe Brake August 1974 F. Held the floor at the 1981 AGM for the duration of the lunch interval, the meeting having voted to adjourn but Mrs Brake having objected on a point of order; the meeting reconvened with her still speaking.
00414 Brig. Jonathan Clark November 1974 F. (fr.) Once corrected a Fellow's tombstone inscription, in pencil, at the funeral. The widow has not commented for the record.
00415 Dr Geoffrey Bramble February 1975 F. Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00416 Mr Kenneth Ashworth March 1975 F. (fr.) Founding member, 1971 Working Party on the Hyphen.
00417 The Hon. Tristram Carruthers June 1975 Assoc. Once corrected the Society's own headed notepaper, with the President's permission.
00418 Miss Barbara Harringay November 1975 Life Refused to acknowledge the en-dash as a distinct punctuation mark.
00419 Mr Cornelius Pegg February 1976 F.
00420 David Green April 1976 Life Submitted nine letters to the Society Secretary in 1981 protesting the use of "input" as a verb. The Secretary responded once.
00421 Miss Diana Evans October 1976 F. (fr.) Maintained that the proper plural of 'forum' is 'fora'. Gave way only in 2014, and only in writing.
00422 Miss Barbara Goldberg October 1976 F. (fr.) Once submitted an emendation to the Society's bylaws within three minutes of their adoption.
00423 Cyril Palmer November 1976 F. (fr.) Refused all email correspondence until 2011.
00424 Robert Pemberton March 1977 F. (fr.) Once won the AGM raffle and corrected the wording of the prize certificate.
00425 Prof. Rosalind Marchwood May 1977 F. The Society's first Fellow to maintain a card-index of misused semicolons in academic publications; the index, on her retirement in 2003, was donated to the Society and remains in the archive, uncatalogued.
00426 Miss Helen Digby July 1977 Life Coined the term 'gerundivore' (one who consumes gerunds incorrectly).
00427 Miss Janet Lethbridge July 1977 Assoc. Refused to address any correspondent who opened a letter with the salutation 'Hi'.
00428 Gerald Macintosh January 1978 F. Compiled, but never published, a list of the Society's own grammatical lapses.
00429 Mr Brian Hawkshaw May 1978 F. (fr.) Maintained a 14-year correspondence on the spelling of 'judgment' / 'judgement'.
00430 The Hon. John King June 1978 F. (fr.) Quietly believed that 'whom' was already lost; said so to no one.
00431 Dr Piers Sopwith August 1978 F. (fr.) Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00432 Mr Quentin Ashby October 1978 F. Resigned in 1995 in protest at the Society's decision to acquire a fax machine; readmitted in 2002 on the disposal of the same.
00433 The Hon. Roger Marjoribanks January 1979 F. (fr.) Kept a private register of misuses of 'begs the question'; it reached 4,200 entries.
00434 Mr Malcolm Murray May 1979 Assoc. Wrote 312 letters to the BBC on the pronunciation of 'Caribbean'. Three were acknowledged.
00435 Miss Joan Wright September 1979 Assoc. Maintained, until the end, that the Society had been founded in 1846.
00436 Simon Turner December 1979 F. (fr.) Editor of the Society's submission to the OED, 3rd edition.
00437 Miss Emmeline Spofford March 1980 Assoc. Author of a 1991 paper on the proper position of the apostrophe in "the Joneses' house", which paper was adopted by the Society as definitive and against which no Fellow has lodged an objection.
00438 The Hon. Caroline Price July 1980 Life Coined the Society's standing rebuke: 'It is, in fact, otherwise.'
00439 Sebastian Haverford September 1980 F. (fr.) Insisted, into old age, that 'media' is a plural and 'medium' a singular.
00440 Miss Caroline Glendenning October 1980 Assoc. Drafted the Society's standing rebuke to those who say 'I could of'.
00441 Giles Daly February 1981 F. (fr.) Once corrected a Cabinet Minister, by registered post, before breakfast.
00442 Timothy Foster March 1981 Assoc. Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00443 Mrs Henrietta White March 1981 F. Composed the Society's response to the Plain English Campaign, 1989. It ran to 38 pages.
00444 Mr Reginald Stoat June 1981 F. (fr.) Known as Reg.
00445 Dr Peregrine Crowhurst September 1981 F. (fr.)
00446 Dr Kate Taylor November 1981 F. Member, 1995 Working Group on the Decline of the Semicolon.
00447 Maj. Rakesh Mukherjee February 1982 Life Author of the only published rebuttal of the misuse of 'enormity'.
00448 Miss Kate Witherington April 1982 Life Once threatened to resign over a misplaced semicolon, and was talked round in the same meeting.
00449 Miss Fiona Thomas August 1982 F. Resigned from three sub-committees in 1991 on a single morning, each by separate letter, each citing a different misplaced comma in the agenda papers.
00450 Maj. Anil Singh March 1983 Life Once corrected the Archbishop of York mid-sermon, by note.
00451 Mr Lachlan Bridewell April 1983 F. Held the post of Acting Secretary in 1991 for a period of four hours, before resigning over the formal style of the Society's letterhead, which he had himself designed in 1987.
00452 Miss Helen Abercrombie June 1983 F. Once won an argument with Sir Bruce Fraser by post.
00453 Miss Fiona Marshall March 1984 F. Author, Society pamphlet on 'Unnecessary Quotation Marks'.
00454 Mrs Ottilie Frampton July 1984 F. Maintained, against the unanimous opposition of the Society, that the proper plural of "octopus" is "octopodes"; the Society notes that no Fellow has been able to refute her etymology.
00455 Mrs Rosamund Ffoulkes November 1984 Life Author, 'On the Vocative Case in Modern Correspondence' (1961).
00456 Mr Tīpene Reweti March 1985 Life Author of the 1991 paper 'Against the Verb "to Action"'.
00457 Mr Stephen Crumbwell May 1985 F. Refused all telephone correspondence with the Society until 1979. Wrote, instead, daily.
00458 Miss Tamsin Russell July 1985 Assoc. Once delivered an entire after-dinner speech in defence of the semicolon.
00459 The Hon. Michael Llewellyn October 1985 F. (fr.)
00460 Mr Boniface Kelt November 1985 F. Resigned the Chair of the Errors Committee in 1996 over the discovery of a spelling error in his own resignation letter; the resignation was accepted on the corrected text.
00461 Mr John Leveson-Gower April 1986 F. (fr.) Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00462 Miss Cordelia Tristram March 1987 Assoc.
00463 Miss Emma Meredith August 1987 F. Wrote weekly to the Society Secretary on matters of usage; never received a reply.
00464 Christopher Evans May 1988 Life Held a private grudge against The Economist for over thirty years.
00465 Prof. Tobias Linwell June 1988 F. Author of the 1994 monograph "Against the Verb 'to Access'", which extended the Society's 1971 standing objection to a length the Society had not anticipated; the monograph was filed without further action.
00466 Mr Crispin Fairweather April 1989 Hon. Honorary admission for translating the Society's bylaws into Latin, then back, with very few changes detectable.
00467 Mrs Imogen Lewis July 1989 F. Once made the Society Treasurer cry over a misplaced apostrophe.
00468 Sir Roderick Catchpole September 1989 Life Held the Presidency from 1998 to 2001, during which time he convened forty-one extraordinary meetings; the Curator notes that this remains the modern record.
00469 Prof. Rachel Murphy November 1989 F. Member of the 1958 Punctuation Tribunal.
00470 Mrs Petronella Quinch December 1989 F. (fr.) Resigned in 2004 in protest at the Society's adoption of an email address; readmitted in 2011 on her own discovery that she had been corresponding with the Society by email since 2007.
00471 Mrs Kavita Chowdhury August 1990 F. (fr.) Compiled, by hand, a complete concordance to the Society's first fifty years of minutes.
00472 Dr Quentin Allardyce October 1990 F. President 2009–2015. Quietly oversaw the Society's transition to email, against his publicly stated preferences.
00473 Mr Christopher Hughes October 1990 Life
00474 Mr Dougal McAndrew February 1991 F. The first New Zealand-resident Fellow to be elected on the recommendation of an existing Fellow; subsequently a signatory to the 2019 letter of protest preceding the formation of the Antipodean Chapter, but did not himself resign.
00475 Dr Christopher Parker March 1991 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's tea ledger, in Latin, until 1989.
00476 Rev. Peter Abercrombie August 1991 Life Held that 'aggravate' meant only 'to make worse'. Outvoted, but unmoved.
00477 Baroness Tamsin Hawkshaw November 1991 F. Maintained, against all evidence, that 'hopefully' cannot modify a sentence.
00478 Miss Alison Jenkins November 1991 F. Maintained, against considerable evidence, that "data" remains plural in all registers, and corrected the Society's website accordingly until access was withdrawn in 2014.
00479 Miss Beatrix Hollander June 1992 Assoc. Compiled, between 1994 and 2018, the Society's only known systematic record of misused apostrophes in supermarket signage; the record was discontinued on her observation that "the matter is now hopeless".
00480 Miss Emma Dalrymple October 1992 Assoc. Held the Chair of the Subjunctive Subcommittee from 1969 to 1984.
00481 Dr Piers Marshall May 1993 Assoc. Maintained the Society's bench in the AGM hall until the very end.
00482 Mrs Hélène Dupont October 1993 F. Kept the Society's minutes in copperplate until 1981, against the wishes of the Committee.
00483 Dr Ferdinand Quayle October 1993 F. (fr.) Author of a 2001 paper on the proper use of "due to" versus "owing to"; the paper has been cited, in subsequent Society correspondence, more often than any other internal publication.
00484 Hohepa Reweti November 1993 Assoc. Resigned in 2012 over a hyphen omitted from the Society's masthead; the omission had stood since 1958, but he was the first Fellow to notice it in writing.
00485 Rev. Barnaby Ferguson December 1993 Assoc.
00486 Mr Andrew Turner March 1994 Assoc. Founding member, Working Group on the Misplaced Modifier (1965).
00487 Mrs Tamsin Gwynn April 1994 F. Member, 2002 Sub-committee on Electronic Correspondence.
00488 Mr Toby Farrell July 1994 Assoc. Once corrected a printed copy of Hansard, in pencil, in the British Library.
00489 Mr Stephen Leveson-Gower July 1994 F. Drafted the Society's standing position on 'unique' as ungradable.
00490 Mr Jonathan Kingsnorth February 1995 F. Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00491 Lt-Col. Anaru Taranaki February 1995 Life Refused all admissions to the Society for two years on grounds of letter quality.
00492 Col. Christopher Byrne April 1995 F. (fr.) Held that the Society had been right, in 1924, and was prepared to say so.
00493 Mr Alexander Roughton April 1995 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in February 2018 in recognition of his enforcement of the 1962 ruling on the proper duration of the Treasurer's report; barred from meetings, the Society having been unable, in his presence, to conclude the financial item before the bar opened.
00494 David Daly November 1995 F. (fr.) Author, 'Notes on the Improper Use of "Begs the Question"' (1992).
00495 Mrs Tamsin Patel March 1996 F. Composed the Society's Christmas card, 1962. The apostrophe placement remains disputed.
00496 Mr Crispin Cameron April 1996 F. (fr.) Held the unbroken record for unanswered letters to The Listener: forty-seven.
00497 Maj. Giles Thorneycroft May 1996 F. (fr.) Drafted, but never sent, a letter of resignation in 1962. The draft is in the archive.
00498 Mrs Felicia Kettering August 1996 F.
00499 Mr Rory Price April 1997 F. (fr.) Member, 2002 Sub-committee on Electronic Correspondence.
00500 Dr Beryl Honeyfield March 1998 F. Resigned 2019. Founding President, Antipodean Chapter.
00501 Mr Ignatius Crewe March 1998 F. Resigned in 2009 over the introduction of the Society's website; readmitted in 2014 on the website's redesign, which he was invited to consult on, and did not.
00502 Lady Rosamund Yardley March 1999 F.
00503 Dame Claire Richardson July 1999 Life Submitted seventeen letters of complaint about the 1973 Annual Programme; all were upheld.
00504 Miss Wairata Hemi July 1999 Assoc. The first Fellow ordinarily resident in Aotearoa to be admitted via correspondence in te reo Māori; the correspondence was conducted with the assistance of the Foundation Vice-President of what would, twenty years later, become the Antipodean Chapter.
00505 Miss Araminta Harrison December 1999 Assoc. Honorary Patron, Sub-committee on the Vocative.
00506 Miss Cressida Murray January 2000 Assoc. Maintained that the Society had no need of a website. Lost the vote, 14–13, in 2003.
00507 Mr Jonathan Wood July 2000 F. Drafted the Society's standing objection to the verb 'to gift'.
00508 Sir Mark Throckmorton October 2000 F. (fr.) Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00509 Prof. Jasper Featherstone November 2000 F. Held the Chair of the Sub-committee on the Apostrophe-S Possessive from 2003 to 2017; the Sub-committee's only published output is a 2014 motion deferring the matter for further consideration.
00510 Mrs Imogen Pickle January 2001 F. The Society's first electronic submission (typed in plain text by request).
00511 Prof. Mihi Pōtiki June 2001 F. Resigned 2019. Foundation Vice-President, Antipodean Chapter.
00512 Dr Tamsin Wickham March 2002 F. (fr.) Resigned in 2018 over the Society's failure to issue a standing rebuke to the use of "literally" as an intensifier in television advertising; readmitted in 2019, the rebuke having been issued in the interim.
00513 Simon Lindsay May 2002 F. Wrote three letters in 1974 protesting the use of the verb 'to impact'.
00514 Mr Simon Davis November 2002 F. (fr.) Resigned in 2020 in protest at the acceptance of attached PDFs in Society correspondence; the Society notes that his resignation was itself submitted by attached PDF.
00515 Miss Sarah Doherty December 2002 F. (fr.) Author of a famously stern letter on 'between you and I'.
00516 The Hon. David Gwynn April 2003 Assoc. Founded, then dissolved, the 1988 Sub-committee on Loanwords.
00517 Col. Andrew Macnamara April 2003 Assoc. Submitted his admission letter in three drafts; only the third was accepted.
00518 Michael Ffoulkes May 2003 Assoc. Wrote weekly corrections to The Daily Telegraph crossword for thirty years.
00519 Mr Hew Crampton June 2003 F.
00520 Geoffrey Wyndham-Forbes August 2003 Life Resigned 2019. Foundation Secretary, Antipodean Chapter.
00521 Julian Ffoulkes August 2004 F. (fr.) Held the only Fellowship granted on the basis of a single letter to The Spectator.
00522 Miss Elizabeth Mitchell August 2004 F. (fr.) Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00523 Mrs Antonia Marsden October 2004 F. Maintains the Society's standing record on the spelling of "judgement"; the record has been disputed by Mr Herbert Harrison's heirs (see #00123) and remains under review.
00524 Dr Anne Patel January 2005 F. Author, pamphlet on the proper use of 'whence' (1968).
00525 Mrs Kavita Ghosh May 2005 F. (fr.) Submitted, in 1983, a 200-page errata sheet to the Society's own Compendium.
00526 Miss Tamsin Wycherley July 2005 Assoc.
00527 Mrs Clementine Murphy November 2005 F. Maintained the Society's only complete index of comma splices in published fiction.
00528 Miss Constance Reith February 2006 Assoc. Submitted, in 2014, a 38-page response to a single sentence in the Society's annual newsletter; the response was, the Curator notes, well structured.
00529 Toby Kettlewell September 2006 Assoc. Maintained a private vendetta against the misuse of 'comprise'.
00530 Mrs Tabitha Gull May 2007 Assoc. The Society notes her thirty years' campaign to remove apostrophes from greengrocers' signage.
00531 Mr Bartholomew Quill III May 2007 Life Father of Mr Bartholomew Quill IV (#00577). Maintained, throughout, that the family name should be hyphenated as "Quill-Bartholomew"; the Society did not concede the point.
00532 Miss Araminta Farrell November 2007 F. Once submitted twenty-three pages of corrections to a Society newsletter that had been printed in error and never circulated.
00533 Mrs Tamsin Gray November 2007 F. Contributor, Compendium of Common Errors, 12th edition.
00534 Mr Matthew Zouche December 2007 Life Donated, in his will, three filing cabinets of corrected newspaper cuttings.
00535 Miss Rosamund Collins August 2008 Assoc. Wrote the Society's 1984 statement deploring the loss of the comma in 'Hello, John.'
00536 Mrs Philippa Colquhoun October 2008 Assoc. Compiled the Society's standing register of malapropisms in Hansard.
00537 Miss Lucinda Pinkerton February 2009 F. (fr.) Member, 1966 Standing Committee on the Subjunctive.
00538 Dr Aroha Whitehead September 2009 F. Author of a 2017 paper on the proper Anglicisation of Māori place names in formal correspondence; the paper was adopted by the Society as the standing reference, against the precedent objection of two Fellows whose names appear elsewhere in this Register.
00539 Miss Alison Fitzpatrick April 2010 F. (fr.) Once returned an admission letter for poor kerning.
00540 Maj. Nicholas Henderson May 2010 F. (fr.) Resigned in 2016 in protest at the introduction of biscuits at Committee meetings, on the grounds that "the Society does not eat".
00541 Mrs Rosamund Ferguson November 2010 Life Insisted on 'whom' in all subordinate clauses, including in conversation.
00542 Mrs Kate O'Neill March 2011 Assoc. Member, 1969 Sub-committee on the Mispronunciation of Foreign Place-names.
00543 Mr Peregrine Slade March 2011 F. Resigned in 2019 in solidarity with the founders of the Antipodean Chapter, having no Antipodean connection of his own; readmitted in 2020, the Society having concluded that solidarity is not a recognised ground for resignation.
00544 Prof. Mark Wright April 2011 F. Wrote a 92-page protest against the merger of the colon and semicolon committees.
00545 Rev. Michael Jervoise May 2012 F.
00546 Mr Mark Clarke July 2012 F. (fr.) Once refused to attend an AGM held in a building with an apostrophe error in its signage.
00547 Miss Evangeline Whitlock August 2012 F. (fr.)
00548 Prof. Jonathan Bethers July 2013 F. (fr.) Refused, on principle, to read any document set in Comic Sans.
00549 Mr David Ffoulkes September 2013 F. Composed the Society's standing reply to greengrocers' apostrophes.
00550 Dr Ngahuia Ferguson February 2014 F. Co-author, with Prof. Pōtiki, of the 2017 paper on Aotearoa-English usage which precipitated the events leading to the formation of the Antipodean Chapter; did not herself resign, on the grounds that the paper had been correctly received.
00551 Mr Quentin Larch June 2015 Hon. Promoted to Honorary Fellowship in March 2024 in recognition of his enforcement of the 1989 ruling on the maximum permissible length of any contribution from the floor; barred from meetings, the Society having found itself unable to receive any contribution at all in his presence since 2021.
00552 Mr Giles Fotheringham June 2016 F. (fr.) Author of the Society's standing reply to those who say 'between you and I'.
00553 Mrs Imogen Threlkeld October 2016 F. Resigned in 2022 over the Society's adoption of a Twitter account; the account was deleted within the week, and Mrs Threlkeld was readmitted with apologies.
00554 Mr Casper Bromfield February 2018 F. (fr.) The Society's only known Fellow to have been admitted, struck off, and readmitted on the basis of a single email thread; the thread, the Curator notes, ran to forty-one messages.
00555 Mr John Clark March 2018 F. Author, the Society's standing objection to the construction 'amount of people'.
00556 Mrs Emma Wigglesworth March 2018 Assoc. Donated a typewriter to the Society in 1989. It remains in use for formal correspondence.
00557 Timothy Macleod May 2019 F. (fr.) Resigned in 2020 in protest at the introduction of name badges at the AGM, having previously argued, in 2019, against the proposal to circulate an attendance list.
00558 Mr Simon Vaughan October 2019 Assoc. Author of the celebrated 1976 letter against the verb 'to liaise'.
00559 Miss Wiremu Patel-Higgs November 2019 F. Author of a 2021 paper on the proper Anglicisation of New Zealand place names in formal correspondence, in respectful disagreement with Dr Whitehead's 2017 paper; the matter is being taken forward jointly.
00560 Rupert Fraser February 2021 Assoc. Refused to acknowledge the word 'irregardless' as English.
00561 Dr Ellis Carradine March 2021 F. Resigned in 2024 over the Society's failure to acknowledge his own correction of a typographical error in the Society's letterhead; readmitted the following month, the correction having been adopted.
00562 Mrs Henrietta Buchanan November 2021 F. (fr.) Author, 'A Modest Proposal Against the Greengrocer's Apostrophe' (1981).
00563 Miss Claire Kettlewell July 2022 F. Submitted a complete erratum sheet for her own admission letter on the morning following its acceptance. Six items; all conceded.
00564 Mr Mungo Lavelle September 2022 F. (fr.)
00565 Miss Areta Paora January 2023 F. (fr.) Maintained the Society's running tally of misused apostrophes on the London Underground.
00566 Miss Adelaide Pringle April 2023 Assoc. Submitted, on the same day as her admission, a sixteen-page erratum sheet for the Society's website; the website was substantially rebuilt to her specifications within the year.
00567 Miss Penelope Wren February 2024 F. Submitted a fourteen-page critique of the Society's own admission letter prior to her acceptance. The Secretary made all the suggested changes.
00568 Mr Tarquin Lovelock June 2024 Assoc. The Society notes his three-year correspondence with the editors of The Guardian on the subject of headline capitalisation.
00569 Prof. Rangi Templeton October 2024 F. Holds the chair of Prescriptive Linguistics at Auckland; declined the Foundation Presidency of the Antipodean Chapter on the grounds of insufficient remoteness from London.
00570 Mrs Alison O'Neill February 2025 Assoc. Withdrew her admission application in 2024 upon discovering a typographical error in the application form; resubmitted in 2025, when the error had been corrected, and was admitted on the original date.
00571 Dr Henrietta Mossop March 2025 F. President-elect. Doctorate (Lexicography, Edinburgh) on the historical drift of "decimate". Holds the modern view, reluctantly.
00572 Mr Ezekiel Trumper March 2025 F. The Society's first Fellow to be admitted with a footnote attached to his admission letter; the footnote concerned the proper use of the en-dash in the year of his birth (1962–63).
00573 Mr Lionel Quesnel April 2025 F. (fr.) Known as Lol. First Fellow admitted by electronic submission via the Society's website.
00574 Mrs Cordelia Mainwaring August 2025 Assoc. The Society notes that her admission letter contained no fewer than seven em-dashes, all correctly deployed.
00575 Miss Gwendolyn Pott August 2025 F. Holds the modern record for points of order raised in a single meeting (twenty-three, at the AGM of 2025), in conscious imitation of Mr Cedric Quigley (#00067); concedes a shortfall of eighteen.
00576 Miss Aster Jellicoe January 2026 Assoc. Operates the Society's online presence under sufferance.
00577 Mr Bartholomew Quill IV January 2026 F. Great-great-grandson of Miss Harriet Quibb. Tradition observed.
00578 Mr Edmund Plumptre February 2026 Hon. Honorary Fellowship for compiling the Society's only known schism-era correspondence in its entirety.
00579 Mrs Verity Stannage February 2026 Assoc. The Society's youngest currently active Associate Fellow at the age of seventy-nine.
00580 Prof. Magnus Tregennis February 2026 F. President-elect (alternate). Holds the chair in Comparative Punctuation at Aberystwyth.
00581 Mr Hector Brierley March 2026 F. Threatened to resign over the use of the singular "they" in the 2025 minutes; remained, with reservations on record.
00582 Miss Octavia Pengelly March 2026 F. (fr.) Maintains a small but vigorous correspondence on the placement of the Oxford comma in legal documents.
00583 Dr Roderick Whitcombe March 2026 F. Submitted his admission letter in iambic pentameter; the Society admitted him without alteration.
00584 Mrs Felicity Boddington April 2026 Assoc. The Society's representative for the proposed Antipodean Chapter. Currently resident in Dunedin.
00585 Mr Tobias Pinch April 2026 F. (fr.) Admitted on his fourth application; the previous three were returned for grammatical irregularities in the application itself.
00586 Mr Nicodemus Wraith April 2026 F. The Society's first Fellow to apply, be rejected, appeal, succeed on appeal, and have his admission backdated to the original application; the matter is currently before the Errors Committee.
00587 Mr Callum Piercing 2026-04-26 Assoc.