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Arthur Vicars, Esq., F.S.A., Ulster King of Arms, The Castle Dublin.

Henry G. Marquand, Esq., President of the Huguenot Society of America, was elected an Honorary Fellow.

The Chairman alluded to the death of Sir Henry Layard, the Society's first President, and spoke at length of his distinguished public career, and of the invaluable services he had rendered to the Society, which had lost in him one of its most energetic supporters.

Sir Henry Peek was then unanimously elected to act as President until the Annual General Meeting in May could proceed to his formal definite election to that office, and a vote of thanks was accorded to him for his kindly undertaking the interim duties of the Presidentship.

Mrs. James M. Lawton, Delegate of the Huguenot Society of America, attended the Meeting as bearer of an invitation to the Society to take part in the proposed celebration by the American Society, in 1898, of the tercentenary of the Promulgation of the Edict of Nantes. A cordial welcome was given to Mrs. Lawton and a general hope was expressed that nearer the time of the celebration it might be possible to definitely accept the invitation and to depute some of the Society's Fellows to represent it officially on the occasion.

On behalf of Mrs. Lawton, Mr. W. C. Waller read a Paper embodying the result of her researches as to the use of a particular colour and floral emblem by the early Huguenots in France. Mrs. Lawton's investigations had led her to the conclusion that white was the special Huguenot colour, and the marigold the special Huguenot flower. Her Paper having already appeared in the Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of America, is not reprinted here.

SECOND ORDINARY MEETING OF THE SESSION,

1894-95,

HELD AT

THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET,

WESTMINISTER,

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1895.

SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President, in the Chair.

THE Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting, held on November, 14, 1894, were read and confirmed.

Henry Sidney Darlot, Esq., and Leonard Hawthorn Darlot, Esq., both of Weld Club, Perth, West Australia, were elected Fellows of the Society.

A Paper was read by Captain W. H. Hinde, R.E., on The Huguenot Settlement at the Cape of Good Hope.'

THIRD ORDINARY MEETING OF THE SESSION,

1894-5,

HELD AT

THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET,

WESTMINISTER.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1895.

SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President, in the Chair.

THE Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on January 9, were read and confirmed.

The following five candidates were elected Fellows of the Society :

The Rev. Léon Dégremont, Pastor of the French Church, Soho Square, W.

Bradley Depledge, Esq., 3, Gracechurch Street, E.C.

The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B., 7, Park Place, St. James's, S.W.

Henry Ainslie Hill, Esq., 4, Rosslyn Gardens, Hampstead, N.W. Colonel Edward Matthey, F.S.A., Beauchamp Lodge, Warwick Crescent, W.

A Paper was read by Mr. Perceval Landon, on 'Heraldry of the Huguenots.'

ELEVENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING,

HELD AT

THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET,

WESTMINISTER,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1895.

SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President, in the Chair.

THE Minutes of the Third Ordinary Meeting held on March 13, were read and confirmed.

The following seven candidates were elected Fellows of the Society :

Henry John Guerrier, Esq., Colville, Woking.

Albert Edward Towle Jourdain, Esq., 89, Wigmore Street, W.
Mrs. James M. Lawton, 37, Fifth Avenue, New York, U.S.A.
Miss Ida H. Layard, 19, Nottingham Place, W.

James H. A. Majendie, Esq., Hedingham Castle, Essex.
Edward Van Notten Pole, Esq., 19, Orsett Terrace. W.
Henry D. Willock, Esq., Queen Anne's Mansions, S.W.

The President then read the following "Address":Address to the Eleventh Annual General Meeting of the Huguenot Society of London. By SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

As you are aware, it has hitherto been the custom at our Annual Meetings to present to you first the Report of the Council, and then for the President to deliver an Address touching on the principal events of Huguenot interest that may have taken place during the past twelve months, both among ourselves and in foreign countries.

But our Meeting this evening may, with good reason, be considered to be of a very exceptional nature, and to call for

some deviation from our ordinary mode of procedure. It has been thought well, therefore, to combine together in a brief form on this occasion the Report of the Council and the Presidential Address, and I have been requested to read to you the following joint remarks of myself and my colleagues on the past and present of the Society.

But before doing this, I feel it is only proper for me to say a few words in my own name only, occupying, as I do, this Chair as your President at the first General Meeting that has been held since the death of its first occupant, the late Sir Henry Austen Layard.

It is scarcely necessary for me to remind you of the immense loss we have all suffered in his death, for I am sure you all feel with me how varied and how valuable his services were to the Society, and what an inestimable advantage it was to us to have had during the early years of the Society's existence, when it had all its way to make, a President of such brilliant talent, such world-wide reputation, and such interest in everything relating to the Huguenots, as Sir Henry Layard. To succeed such a man as President of this Society adds, if anything can add, to the honour which you have done me in electing me to fill that office-an honour for which I beg to return you my most hearty thanks.

I will now no longer delay proceeding to the remarks which have been suggested to myself and to the Vice-Presidents and Council by the anniversary we have met to celebrate this evening.

We have met not only to close the present Session and to enter upon a new year in our history, but to close the first ten years of the Society's existence, a period which perhaps may be considered as the most important through which it is ever likely to pass. We say the most important, for the years of a Society's first beginning, and contending with the difficulties which, in a greater or less degree, inevitably fall to the lot of both Societies and individuals at the outset of life, may be taken as a very good test of its right to exist at all, and of its capability of carrying out the objects for which it was founded.

Some of us here this evening will remember how just ten years ago, on the 15th of April, 1885, a small number of descendants of the refugees who flocked to England by hundreds and thousands during the years of trial and persecution which lasted, with little or no intermission, from the time of the fatal St. Bartholomew in 1572, to the Revocation

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