HRH the DUKE of KENT a Life of Service
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HRH THE DUKE OF KENT A Life Of Service CONTENTS Foreword by Damon de Laszlo Chapter 1: His Royal Highness Prince Edward The Duke of Kent KG Chapter 2: Health Service Charities: King Edward VII’S Sister Agnes Hospital Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Stroke Association Institute of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, University of Birmingham Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland Restore Burn and Wound Research Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Association (ME) Watling Hospital Charitable Trust Watling and District Nursing Home The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal Society of Medicine Chapter 3: British Overseas Trade Board Chapter 4: Education The Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn The Royal Society The Royal Institution of Great Britain and Royal Institution of Australia (RiAus) Royal Geographical Society University of Surrey and Postgraduate Medical School Cranfield University Cambridge University Scientific Society London Metropolitan University 1 Chapter 5: Youth Education, Work, Disadvantaged and Disabled People Aidis Trust Endeavour Training Edge Foundation Chapter 6: Professions, Business, and Engineering Part 1: Professions and Business Association of Men of Kent and Kentish Men The Institute of Export (IOE) International Trade BCS, The Chartered Institute For IT Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Part 2: Engineering The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) The Institution of Mechanical Engineers Royal Academy of Engineering Engineering Council Chapter 7: Civic Duties and Religious Trusts Borough of King’s Lynn and West Norfolk The Henley Society British-German Association Dresden Trust Canterbury Cathedral Chapter 8: The Freemasons’ Charities Part 1: Who are the Freemasons? Part 2: The Great Work of the Freemasons’ Grand Charity Part 3: Royal Masonic Trust for Girls and Boys Part 4: Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution Part 5: Masonic Samaritan Fund Part 6: Grants made to other charities Part 7: Disaster relief grants 2 Chapter 9: Prince Edward’s Music Patronages and his taste in music Royal Choral Society Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance London Philharmonic Orchestra King’s Lynn Festival and Centre for Arts South Bank Centre International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove Wigmore Hall London Opera North Hanover Band European Union Baroque Orchestra Mendelssohn Society Royal Opera House Chapter 10: Wimbledon Tennis Championships Part 1: Introduction and Brief History Part 2: All England Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club Part 3: A New Millennium Part 4: Wimbledon Tennis Finals Winners Chapter 11: Sport Ski Club of Great Britain Kandahar Ski Club Army Winter Sports Association Civil Service Motoring Association Institute of Advanced Motoring Trust - incorporating the Automobile Association Motoring Trust British Racing Drivers’ Club Band of Brothers Cricket Club Kent County Cricket Club 3 Chapter 12: Royal National Lifeboat Institution and The Communications and Public Service Lifeboat Fund Part 1: The RNLI – Who they are and what they do Part 2: The modern-day RNLI Part 3: International Development Part 4: The Communications & Public Service Lifeboat Fund Chapter 13: Art, Drama, Literature, and Photography The Catalogue Raisonné of Works by Philip de László P G Wodehouse Society (UK) The Noël Coward Society The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain Chapter 14: Commonwealth and International Organisations and Overseas Visits Part 1: The Duke of Edinburgh’s Commonwealth Study Conferences and CSC Leaders Part 2: The Special Relationship with Poland Anglo-Jordanian Society HRH The Duke Of Kent’s Overseas Visits, 2012: Uganda Ascension Island The Falkland Islands Chapter 15: Worshipful Companies and Guilds Worshipful Company of Mercers Worshipful Company of Salters Worshipful Company of Clothworkers The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London Worshipful Company of Engineers The British Menswear Guild 4 Chapter 16: London Clubs The Travellers Club Boodle’s Club Buck’s Club Cavalry and Guards Club The ‘In & Out’ Naval & Military Club The Turf Club The Army & Navy (‘The Rag’) Club Polish Hearth Club (Ognisko Polskie), South Kensington Chapter 17: Country Pursuits The Tree Council Sir Peter Scott Commemorative Expedition Anmer Social Club Royal West Norfolk Golf Club Norfolk Club The Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Scotland Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Preservation Society Chapter 18: The Royal Air Force and their Charities RAF Leuchars Guild of Air Pilots & Air Navigators Royal Aeronautical Society RAF Club RAF Benevolent Fund RAF Charitable Trust Chapter 19: Military and Related Organisations Honourable Artillery Company The Duke of York’s Royal Military School Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) and RUSI International Wellington College The Scout Association The Tank Museum Imperial War Museums The Society for Army Historical Research Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association The Gallantry Medallists’ League Bletchley Park Trust National Army Museum The Chelsea Pensioners Appeal, The Royal Hospital Chelsea Chapter 20: Commonwealth War Graves Commission 5 Chapter 21: Prince Edward’s Military Career The Royal Scots Greys The Scots Guards Scots Guards Colonel’s Fund Scots Guards Regimental Association The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers The Devonshire & Dorset Regiment The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton) Regiment Sources & Acknowledgements About the authors 6 .