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| 105 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/105 | Ross, Alexander Galt | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Ross%2C+Alexander+Galt+%281860%E2%80%931927%29">Ross, Alexander Galt (1860–1927)</a> | Alexander Galt Ross (1860–1927); critic and businessman. | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a> | Ross-Alexander-Galt | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=74&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1887+%28Secretary%29">1887 (Secretary)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=74&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1888+%28Honorary+Secretary%29">1888 (Honorary Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1885+%28Secretary%29">1885 (Secretary)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1887+%28Honorary+Secretary%29">1887 (Honorary Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Secretary+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Secretary (Society of Authors)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Honorary+Secretary+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Honorary Secretary (Society of Authors)</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Businessman">Businessman</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Critic">Critic</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a> | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1927">1927</a> | Alexander Galt Ross (1860–1927); critic and businessman. Brother of Robert Ross, journalist, critic, and Oscar Wilde's friend and executor. Appointed Secretary of the Society of Authors <span> in January 1885 </span>when <span><a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Valentine-John-Tristram-Tristram">J. T. Tristram-Valentine</a> stepped down, becoming Honorary Secretary in 1887 (alongside <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Little-James-Stanley">James Stanley Little</a> as Executive Secretary), a position he held until 1888 when he joined the <a href="https://historysoa.com/exhibits/show/management-committee">Committee of Management</a>.</span> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860">1860</a> | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=67&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1888">1888</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Committee+of+Management">Committee of Management</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Copyright+Sub-Committee">Copyright Sub-Committee</a> | | | | | | | | Cotton, James Sutherland, ed. ‘Notes and News.’ <em>The Academy</em> 670 (7 Mar. 1885): 169. | | | | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/105/1885-Cotton-James-Sutherland.jpg | Committee of Management, copyright, Council, criticism |
| 108 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/108 | Sprigge, Samuel Squire | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Sprigge%2C+Samuel+Squire">Sprigge, Samuel Squire</a> | Sir (Samuel) Squire Sprigge (1860–1937); medical editor and author. | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a> | Sprigge-Samuel-Squire | | | | <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/36222</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=74&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1892+%28Secretary%29">1892 (Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1889+%28Secretary%29">1889 (Secretary)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1909+%28Chairman+of+Price+of+Novels+Sub-Committee%29">1909 (Chairman of Price of Novels Sub-Committee)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chairman+%28Committee+of+Management%29">Chairman (Committee of Management)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chairman+%28Pension+Fund+Committee%29">Chairman (Pension Fund Committee)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Chairman+%28Price+of+Novels+Sub-Committee%29">Chairman (Price of Novels Sub-Committee)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Secretary+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Secretary (Society of Authors)</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Editor">Editor</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=71&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1909+%28Price+of+Novels+Sub-Committee%29">1909 (Price of Novels Sub-Committee)</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1937">1937</a> | Sir (Samuel) Squire Sprigge (1860–1937; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); medical editor and author. Editor of <em>The Lancet</em> (1909); published articles on art and medicine, and books on medicine and the history of publishing. Appointed Secretary to the Society in 1889, taking over from <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Little-James-Stanley">James Stanley Little</a>. Succeeded by <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Thring-George-Herbert">George Herbert Thring</a> in 1892. Chaired the Price of Novels Sub-Committee from 1909. | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1860">1860</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Committee+of+Management">Committee of Management</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Pension+Fund+Committee">Pension Fund Committee</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Price+of+Novels+Sub-Committee">Price of Novels Sub-Committee</a> | | | | | | | | Bassano, Alexander. Portrait of Sir (Samuel) Squire Sprigge. Whole-Plate Glass Negative. 1921. NPG x120785 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw61726/Sir-Samuel-Squire-Sprigge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw61726/Sir-Samuel-Squire-Sprigge</a>. | | | | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/108/1921-Sprigge-Samuel-Squire.jpg | art, Committee of Management, Council, criticism, editing, medicine, pensions, publishing, science |
| 193 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/193 | Thring, George Herbert | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Thring%2C+George+Herbert+%281859%E2%80%931941%29">Thring, George Herbert (1859–1941)</a> | George Herbert Thring (1859–1941); Secretary to the Society of Authors. | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a> | Thring-George-Herbert | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=74&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1930+%28Secretary%29">1930 (Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1892+%28Secretary%29">1892 (Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Secretary+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Secretary (Society of Authors)</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Solicitor">Solicitor</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a> | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1941">1941</a> | George Herbert Thring (1859–1941); Secretary to the Society of Authors from 1892, taking over from <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Sprigge-Samuel-Squire">Samuel Squire Sprigge</a> when it was decided that the Society needed a full-time Secretary. He held the position until 1930. Also solicitor in England to <em>La Société des Gens de Lettres</em>. Became the editor of <a href="https://historysoa.com/publications/The-Author"><em>The Author</em></a> after the death of <a href="https://historysoa.com/Besant-Walter">Walter Besant</a> in 1901. | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1859">1859</a> | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thring, George Herbert. <em>Addenda to The Methods of Publishing</em>. London: The Society of Authors, 1898. <a href="https://archive.org/details/methodspublishi00thrigoog" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://archive.org/details/methodspublishi00thrigoog</a>. | | | | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/193/Thring-George-Herbert.jpeg | editing, law, publishing, The Author |
| 16 | https://historysoa.com/items/show/16 | Valentine, John Tristram Tristram- | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Valentine%2C+John+Tristram+Tristram-+%281848%E2%80%931893%29">Valentine, John Tristram Tristram- (1848–1893)</a> | J. T. Tristram-Valentine (1848–1893); solicitor and member of the British Ornithologists' Union. | | | | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a> | Valentine-John-Tristram-Tristram | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=78&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Horace+Cox">Horace Cox</a> | | | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=74&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1885+%28Secretary%29">1885 (Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=73&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884+%28Secretary%29">1884 (Secretary)</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Secretary+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Secretary (Society of Authors)</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=66&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Solicitor+%28Society+of+Authors%29">Solicitor (Society of Authors)</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Solicitor">Solicitor</a> | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a> | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=84&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1884">1884</a> | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=71&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1883+%28Founders%27+Sub-Committee%29">1883 (Founders' Sub-Committee)</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1893">1893</a> | J. T. Tristram-Valentine (1848–1893); solicitor and member of the British Ornithologists' Union. One of the founding members of the Society of Authors. Valentine resigned on 29 January 1885, after presenting the accounts for the first year, suggesting he didn’t believe in the Society's ability to make money. He was replaced by <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Ross-Alexander-Galt">Alexander Galt Ross</a>. | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1848">1848</a> | | | | | <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Founders%27+Sub-Committee">Founders' Sub-Committee</a> | | | | | | | | Tristram-Valentine, J. T. <em>London Birds and Beasts</em>. London: Horace Cox, 1895. <a href="https://archive.org/details/londonbirdsbeast00trisrich" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://archive.org/details/londonbirdsbeast00trisrich</a>. | | | | | | | https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/16/1895-Tristram-Valentine-J-T-London-Birds-and-Beasts.png | founders, law |