Transcribed from the 1852 W. Birch edition ,. Many thanks to the Royal Borough ofChelsea and Kensington Libraries for allowing their copy to beused for this transcription.
1852.
President.
THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACONSINCLAIR,
Vicar of Kensington.
Treasurer—MR. HAWKES.
Hon. Sec.—REV. S. PRICE DAVIES, M.A.
Council.
MR. BELLWORTHY. | MR. WILLIAM HUNT. |
— BIRD. | — MERRIMAN. |
— CLARKE. | — SMITH. |
— CURTIS. | — STANHAM. |
ADMIRAL DEACON. | — TASSIE. |
MR. EALES. | — WADDILOVE. |
REV. J. H. HOWLETT. | — WARNER. |
MR. J. HUNT. |
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KENSINGTON:
PRINTED BY W. BIRCH, HIGH STREET.
1853.
p.2*** Subscriptions and Donations to the Kensington ParochialInstitute will be received and acknowledged by the Treasurer,Mr. Hawkes, High-street, andthe Rev. S. Price Davies, Hon. Sec., 17, LowerPhillimore-place.
The Council of the ParochialInstitute have pleasure in submitting for the adoption of itsmembers, and the consideration of the inhabitants of Kensington,their Third Annual Report.
Having upon former occasions detailed the circumstances of itsformation, and demonstrated upon solid grounds the expediency ofmeeting the increasing intellectual requirements of thecommunity, by the establishment, throughout the country, ofsocieties for the diffusion of a healthy literature, and acultivated taste, it will be their present purpose to recounttheir own success in stimulating these objects, while suggestingto their fellow residents the privilege, policy, and duty ofenabling them to develop the existing agencies of mentalrecreation, by liberally conceding to their claims an united andcomprehensive support.
Nor will such a retrospect be interesting only to those moreimmediately concerned in producing the results recorded. The popular use of reading-rooms, libraries, and lectures, is notconnected with questions of merely individual or localimportance; it is of imperial bearing: for while theirmultiplication and prosperity afford criteria for determining howfar the desire of knowledge animates th