Officers: J.E. Forty, President; S. Harris, Past President; H. Best, J. Travis-Cook, D. Maxwell, Rev H.W. Perris, Vice-Presidents; William Andrews and Herbert Lloyd, Secretaries; J.A. Duesbury, Treasurer; E. Lamplough, Librarian. Council: A. Chamberlain; A. Jordan; Dr J. Leith Waters; C.C. Graham; H.K. White; Rev J.M. Lambert; L.H. Bergman; John Linford.

Syllabus:

Annual Dinner, 14 Oct 1895; President's Address 'Poetry in an Age of Science' by J.E. Forty; 'Some Characteristics of Milton as Thinker and Poet' by Rev H.W. Perris, 28 Oct 1895; 'Style as Illustrated in the Works of Lytton' by George Wright, 4 Nov 1895; 'The Danish Settlement in the East Riding of Yorkshire' by J.R. Boyle, 11 Nov 1895; 'Eastern Poetry' by W.H. Dyer, 18 Nov 1895; Social Meeting, 25 Nov 1895; 'James Russell Lowell (with examples)' by S. Harris, 2 Dec 1895; 'Pausanias' by Donald Wilson, 9 Dec 1895; 'Elocution - Its Methods (Illustrated)', H.A. Spurr, 16 Dec 1895; Christmas Revels, 23 Dec 1895; Conversazione, 17 Jan 1896; 'The Celtic Element in the English Character' by I.W. Dickinson, 27 Jan 1896; 'Woman in Shakespeare' by H. Kelsey White, 3 Feb 1896; 'The French Novel as seen with English Eyes' by E.E. Cohen', 10 Feb 1896; 'Hogarth (Illustrated)' by G.E.S. Coxhead, 17 Feb 1896; Social Meeting, 24 Feb 1896; 'Two Great Schoolmasters - Arnold and Thring' by C.H. Gore, 2 Mar 1896; 'Sir Harry Vane and the Age in which he Lived' by William Andrews, 9 Mar 1896; 'Pagan Philosophy' by L.H. Bergman, 16 Mar 1896; 'The Paston Letters' by H.E. Gillett, 23 Mar 1896; Annual Meeting, 30 Mar 1896.

Meetings held 8pm at the Royal Station Hotel.