4 of 7 June 2024 The 1805 Dispatches #24.03 AGMs 2024 As a Club member who was not seeking to be a Trustee, Mme Natacha Abriat accepted our invitation to stand for the essential post of chair of the AGMs, in charge of their non-voting elements. We were very pleased that with members’ support she became ‘Madame la Présidente’. This followed the Club’s longstanding policy of approximately alternating male/ female and British/non-British AGM chairs, emphasising our internationalism, non-nationalism, and nontriumphalism. Being French, Natacha’s presence gave strength to our wish for genuine égalité and fraternité whenever possible (even if pronouncing the word ‘unincorporated’ was something of a challenge). Here are some informal pictures. CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF THE GLORIOUS FIRST OF JUNE On 1 June, twenty members and friends of The 1805 Club attended the annual commemoration of ‘the Glorious First of June’, marking the 230th anniversary of the BritishFrench naval battle led on the British side by Admiral Lord Howe. The event’s venue, Langar Hall, was the admiral’s family home, and his body is buried in the immediately adjacent church. The present Earl and Countess Howe were in attendance and the guest of honour was Victoria Pickering MDS HAC, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire, officially representing HM King Charles III. In the collegiate spirit that we wish to foster, attendees included one SNR member who is not (yet) an 1805 Club member. We know that other SNRs would have attended, given longer notice. (NOTE: Our Trafalgar Night Dinner will be on 19 October 2024!) A full GFJ report will appear in the next issue of our twiceyearly magazine, The Kedge Anchor.
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