The Ruskin Society

APPENDIX Ruskin Society Partial list of lectures Key:- M: Manchester B: Birmingham Lon: London Liv: Liverpool U: Ruskin Union A: Ambleside G: Glasgow All dares in the form dd.mm.yy *Indicates publication in Saint George. Lectures published separately are listed in the Select Bibliography. This list of lectures has been compiled from extant lecture lists, notices, newspaper reports, and other published and manuscript records. Where entries can be cross-referenced, the fullest information has been given. No attempt has been made to standardize the form in which names of speakers have been given, however, and the list should be used in conjunction with the full explanatory context given in Chapter 4. Date/ Lecture Title/Description Speaker Society 15.01.79 M Inaugural R. Bailey Walker 05.02.79 M Readings from Modern Painters Francis Pullen 28.02.79 M Reading at Charlestown Mutual Improvement Society Francis Pullen 05.03.79 M Short Address [Manchester Reference Library] Charles Rowley 26.03.79 M Endeavour Mutual Improvement Society Francis Pullen 02.04.79 M General readings Bailey/Pullen/Walker/Doyle 07.05.79 M Ruskin and his critics W. E. A. Axon 13.06.79 M Mechanical Industry Francis Pullen M The Three True Causes of Industrial Depression: A. H. Mackmurdo 22.09.79 M 1. The Land and the People 23.09.79 M 2. Usury 24.09.79 M 3. Our Metallic Currency 08.10.79 M Ruskin and Restoration T. H. Hall Caine 28.10.79 G John Ruskin; his life and works William Smart 05.11.79 M Natural Adornment E. J. Bailey 26.11.79 M St Mark’s Restoration Protest G. Milner 03.12.79 M Notes on St George’s Guild John Morgan (read by F. W. Pullen) 09.02.80 M Scripture Schools According to St George Henry Swan 22.03.80 M John Ruskin J. Marshall Mather 26.04.80 M Turner and His Works H. S. Grimshaw 01.11.80 G Inaugural [Ruskin neither a democrat nor communist] John Morrison 08.11.80 M Ruskin’s Political Economy J. E. Phythian ??.??.81 Lon Lessons from the Poet Painters ??.??.81 Lon The Story of St. George’s Guild as told in Fors Clavigera 14.11.81 M Poet Painters: or the Relativity of Art of things Spectral and things Substantial/ A. H. Mackmurdo 11.12.81 M John Ruskin Rev. Silas Farrington 16.01.82 M Some Relations between Mr Ruskin and the Old and New Testament Francis Pullen 23.01.82 G Wealth: Definitions by Ruskin and Mill Compared William Cassels 13.03.82 M St George’s Museum, Walkley W. E. A. Axon 10.04.82 M Mr. Ruskin’s Ideal English Woman Rev. J. Marshall Mather 12.10.82 A Selections from Ruskin H. D. Rawnsley 06.11.82 G Mr. Ruskin’s Autobiography as told in Fors Clavigera John Morison 20.11.82 G Beauty, a subject of Moral Perception William Cassels 04.12.82 G Work – Noble and Base Group Discussion 18.12.82 G Mr. Ruskin as an Ornithologist W. Craibe Angus 08.01.83 G Books; and How to Read Them Rev. A. Cameron Watson 22.01.83 G The Jewish Land Laws James S. Smith 05.02.83 G Church and State Rev. Thomas Armstrong 19.02.83 G A National Store versus Our National Debt Group Discussion 19.03.83 G Fiction, Fair and Foul W. S. McCormick 02.04.83 G Mr. Ruskin and the Greek Mythology James Morison 16.04.83 G Unto This Last and What It Teaches John Annan 30.04.83 G Is Usury Wholly Unjustifiable? William V. Jackson 07.05.83 G The Spirit of John Ruskin William Smart 09.11.85 G A Plea for the Church’s Sympathy with the Spirit of the Age/ Rev. David Watson 23.11.85 G The Argument for Vegetarianism William Buchanan 07.12.85 G Some Aspects of the Ideal in Relation to the Genius of George Eliot D. S. Riddoch 21.12.85 G Sir Walter Scott and Mr. Ruskin James Morison 11.01.86 G The Reign of Industry Rev. James Mavor 25.01.86 G A Sketch of the Human Spirit as a Contribution Towards Individual Cultivation/ W. Buist Picken 08.02.86 G Socialism William Smart 08.03.86 G The Employment of Women Duncan Carmichael 22.03.86 G Excessive and Improper Work H. Congreve 05.04.86 G The Evangel of History John Riddoch 19.04.86 G The Three-Fold Lines of Human Reformation James G. Borland 22.08.86 G Population, Progress, and Poverty Patrick Geddes 08.11.86 G The Roadside Songs of Tuscany: a brief note John Morison 20.11.88 G Natural Law at Once Natural, Moral, and Religious William Jolly 03.12.88 G The Influence of Turner and Ruskin on Modern Landscape Painting D. S. Riddoch 17.12.88 G The Foundations of Social Politics Henry Dyer 07.01.89 G Political Economy of Art Patrick Geddes 21.01.89 G The Unhealthy Conditions of Modern Life Rev. Thomas Armstrong 04.02.89 G The Principle of Balance in the Universe Miss Sara S. Hennell 18.02.89 G The Too Narrow Bed Rev. W. W. Tulloch 04.03.89 G The Church and Social Politics Rev. William Brownlie 18.03.89 G The Incas, an example of Paternal Government Alfred Mavor 01.04.89 G The Mystery of Life (Sesame and Lilies) David Dick 15.04.89 G Matthew Arnold William Martin 29.04.89 G Mr. Ruskin’s Poetry Robert Bird 21.10.89 Liv Rose-red and Blood-red Communism J. Ernest Phythian 13.11.89 G Poetry in its Relation to Life and Progress William Smart 18.11.89 G The Ruskin Reading Guild and its relation to the Study of Great Authors William Marwick 18.11.89 Liv Some Examples of Paternal Government. John E. Fowler 16.12.89 Liv The Effect of Simplicity of Life on the Pleasures of a Nation T. H. Wardleworth 20.01.90 Liv The Effect of Simplicity of Life on the Art of a Nation Edith Hope Scott 03.02.90 G Henry Rose 17.02.90 Liv Work – according to Ruskin’ George Thomson ??.03.90 Lon Ruskin and Reynolds – their Theories of ART 31.03.90 Lon King’s Treasuries – Their Use and Abuse William Marwick 20.05.90 Lon Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Poet and Painter Kineton Parkes 17.10.90 Lon Lessons from My Masters Dr. Peter Bayne 14.11.90 Lon Mr. Ruskin and the two first volumes of Modern Painters Mr. Robjohns 12.12.90 Lon Ruskin’s Teachings and Present Day Movements and Tendencies J. Ernest Phythian 16.01.91 Lon Fors Clavigera Rev. J. P. Faunthorpe 13.02.91 Lon Some views of art according to Ruskin and otherwise Henry E. West 13.03.91 Lon Ruskin Museum, Sheffield William White 17.04.91 Lon A Review of Mr. Ruskin’s Political Economy Andrew Ogilvie 08.05.91 Lon Ethics of the Dust Arthur Boutwood 22.05.91 Lon Industrial Partnership, and its Ruskinism George Thomson 09.10.91 Lon Practical Idealism Arthur Bontwood 19.10.91 Liv Pictures in Education T. C. Horsfall 09.11.91 G The Training of Taste in Schools, with special reference to Ruskin William Jolly 13.11.91 Lon Ruskin’s Poems William Marwick 23.11.91 G Mary Wollstonecraft and Progressive History Mrs. Neilson 07.12.91 G The Realisation of the Social Ideal, and how Present Agencies may be United and Strengthened1 11.12.91 Lon Unto This Last James P. Smart 1 Taking part were D. M. Stevenson (of the Glasgow Social Union) and Mr. Strang (of the COS), see World- Literature, vol. 1, p. 38. 21.12.91 G Count Tolstoi and his Teaching Rev. A. Lazenby2 04.01.92 G Unto This Last Robert Bird 08.01.92 Lon Carlyle & Ruskin: A Comparison Mrs. Margaret West 11.01.92 G Art in Our Cities3 J. Parker Smith MP 18.01.92 G Tennyson Rev. John Hunter 01.02.92 G Mythology William Smith 12.02.92 Lon The Work and Object of the Guild and School of Handicraft C. R. Ashbee 15.02.92 G Labour colonies I have visited D. M. Stevenson 29.02.92 G George Meredith David Dick 11.03.92 Lon Ruskin’s Thoughts about Women Miss Stanley4 14.03.92 G Social Problems of the Scottish Highlands5 Rev. J Charleson DD 2 For more on Lazenby, see Cockram, Social Reform, pp. 181-2. 3 World-Literature, vol. 1, p. 76 notes that this was postponed from 07.12.91. 4 Headmistress, Whitelands College. 5 Cancelled due to illness, John Demstoun? instead spoke on ‘Old Age Pensions’. 28.03.92 G The Society of the Future Prof. Henry Dyer 04.04.92 G A Glance at the Stones of Venice6 John Morison 08.04.92 Lon Ruskin and Modern Social Tendencies C. Oscar Gridley 13.05.92 Lon The Economical View of Interest on Capital Thomas Hewitt 17.10.92 Liv Conversazione: The Place of Art in a Well-Ordered Life Edmund J. Baillie 21.10.92 Lon The First Principles of Political Economy Arthur Boutwood 11.11.92 Lon Poetic Imagery Henry Rose 21.11.92 Liv St. Mark’s at Venice J. Ernest Phythian 09.12.92 Lon Art on the Modern English Stage C. T. J. Hiatt 19.12.92 Liv The New Economy and its Application to Industry George Thomson 13.01.93 Lon Imagination in Literature and Art Mrs.

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