Past Secretaries

Secretaries

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1824-1830 Mr Samuel Gwinnett

1828  Mr George Harborne  

1830-7? Mr Thomas Gill

1845-8   Mr Edward Adams  

1848-1853 Mr E. Ashwin, one of the founder members of the Club (died 1853)

1853 Mr T.M. Ashwin, his son

1854-1863? Mr John Shapcote Leaver. Secretary to the Birthplace Committee 1852-1866 and to the Trustees of Shakespeare’s Birthplace  1866-1886

1874 Mr George John Lapworth 

1874-1885 Mr John Charles Warden, solicitor

1885-[1890] Mr John Dixon Taylor, both Secretary and Treasurer.

1890-1905 Mr Richard Savage. Librarian and Secretary of Shakespeare’s Birthplace 1884-1910.  

1905 Mr Henry Hickling  

1906-1908 Mr S.F. Ellis (and Treasurer 1890-1916), Manager of Lloyds Bank, Stratford-upon-Avon.

1908-1916 Mr Reginald Latimer Greene, Mayor of Stratford-upon-Avon 1891-4.

1916-1925 Mr F.W. Wellstood, Secretary and Librarian, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 1910-42.

1925-1932 Mr W.B. Ainsworth, Secretary and Treasurer 1928-32

1932-1933 Miss W.E. Morgan, Honorary Secretary of the Shakespeare Festival Celebration Fund in 1921

1933-5 Mr Gerald Q. Jaggard  

1935-1940 Mr E.G. Tibbits, Assistant Archivist, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 1933-9, author of Ancient Records of Warwick (1938)

1940-1942 Mr W.T.H. Adams

1942-1944 Mr J.G. Bourne

1944-5 Mr W.B. Ainsworth pro tem

1945-6 Mr John H. Bird, journalist for the Evesham Journal.

1946-1968 Mr George Darlow, Headmaster of Hugh Clopton Secondary Modern School.

1968-1980 Mr Roger Pringle, Education Assistant 1967-1985, Deputy Director 1985-9, Director 1989-2007 of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust;  President 1993-4 and Vice President since 1995 of the Shakespeare Club   

1980-3 Miss Kate Flint and Dr Lorna Flint, authors of Poetry in Perspective: A Critical Anthology (1963)

1983-9 Dr Mary McGowan with Miss Mary Farren Smith

1990-7 Dr Mary McGowan and Dr Susan Brock (Librarian, Shakespeare Institute of the University of Birmingham 1978-1997; Head of Library and Academic Resource Development, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 1997-2005)  

1997-2000 Dr Susan Brock and Mrs Daphne Ingram

2000-10 Mrs Daphne Ingram and Mrs Eileen Geldard (Programme Secretary)

2011-2012 Dr Susan Brock and Mrs Helen Hargest (Programme Secretary)

2012–2018 Dr Susan Brock and Miss Mary Reardon (Programme Secretary)

2018-2022 Mrs Sylvia Morris and Miss Mary Reardon (Programme Secretary until 2020, then role taken temporarily by Dr Susan Brock)

2022- Mrs Sylvia Morris and Ms Amanda Wood (Programme Secretary)