3 2013 MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS DUE Membership subscription renewals for 2013 are due on January 1st. Your continued membership in the 1805 Club is very important to us— your participation and subscription support a variety of club activities including monument conservation/restoration, the organization and staging of commemorative events, and the publication of the Trafalgar Chronicle, the Kedge Anchor and other publications. We encourage you to renew your membership and hope that you continue to find it worthwhile. The annual subscription is £35.00, with cheques made payable to “The 1805 Club.” Please forward payment to Hon. Membership Secretary Barry Scrutton, 1 Cambus Road, London, E16 4AY UK. If you have any questions you may also contact Barry by phone at 0207 476 1215 (office), or email: < barry@scruttonestates.co.uk >. For North American and Carribbean members the annual subscription is $70.00US (if paid before January 1st). After January 1st members need to send $70.00 + $30.00 conversion/draft fee for a total of $100.00. North American and Caribbean members should forward their checks in US dollars made payable to our North American Secretary, R. Burdett Mafit, 1980 Sunrise Blvd., Eugene, Oregon 97405 USA. The North American Secretary will convert all the checks into one sterling draft, thus saving the Club time and conversion charges. *For ALL renewing members, please be sure and include any changes in your contact information (address, phone number or email address). We also invite those of you who would like to make an additional contribution to the conservation work of the club (above and beyond your annual subscription) to include it with your dues. If you wish to donate for this purpose you should tick the appropriate box on the renewal form. You may designate any amount and your donation will be duly recorded. It may be listed on a conservation project in the future, unless you would prefer anonymity. wish to look for a more recent example of victory of the eternal spirit over death then we have only to remember Penny Dalton who died on 5 October. Penny served the Club brilliantly as the UK editor of the Kedge Anchor, inspired by her lifelong enthusiasm for ships and the sea, which ranged from Forester and O’Brien to Gilbert and Sullivan! Penny’s long fight with cancer can be an encouragement to us all, since, as with her hero Nelson, it was a resolute religious faith that gave meaning to her existence, which meant more to her than life itself. We must also say farewell to Surgeon Vice Admiral Sir Godfrey Milton Thompson, who living in Menheniot where Lieutenant John Richards Lapenotiere Royal Navy is buried, played such an important role helping the Club with the conservation of his the grave and the ceremony of ‘The New Trafalgar Dispatch’. If I may end on a less melancholy note, I should like to highlight the success of this year’s Trafalgar Dinner at Newhouse on 20th October. We had a splendid evening and one that was enjoyed by both guests of honour: Dr Dominic Tweddle, Director General of the National Museum of the Royal Navy, who gave ‘The Immoral Memory—to Admiral Lord Nelson and all those who fell with him’, and Michael Ellis, Britain’s former Naval Attaché to Sweden, who talked about the Battle of the Nile using the Royal Navy’s Command Support System with the new computer projector and screen recently donated to the Club by member Pat Davies ()who has our thanks). And a big thank you to Kathy Clarke too, who organised the evening. A final thank you to Winston Leese, who has produced a lovely members silk tie of which there is a notice in this issue. The last Club event this year is the lecture on Captain Bligh by Sir Arnold Wolfendale, former Astronomer Royal, on 24 November at the London Corinthian Sailing Club, Hammersmith. If you would like to come along please contact Vice Chairman Bill White. May I and the Council of The 1805 Club take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year. Yours aye, Peter Warwick THE 1805 Club Tie. There are a number of club ties available which are new stock. Manufactured in 100% silk and hand made in the UK. There are fewer than twenty in total available for sale in equal numbers of blue and maroon. If you wish to purchase one please contact Winston Leese via e mail on winann6@aol.com or telephone 01785 760600. Please state your preference for colour and if you are prepared to accept the alternative if your first choice is not available. (Winston will not be available between 3rd and 20th December 2012 inclusive but e mail messages can be left which he will action asap.) The ties are priced at £20.00p UK each, a very competitive price for a tie of this quality. There is an additional charge for UK ORDERS OF £1.50 to cover post and package. Additional charges would be made for non UK orders. The ties are of a superb quality and one you will be proud to wear. Don't delay in ordering if you are interested.
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