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; J. Leith Waters; C.C. Graham; H.K. White; Rev J. Malet Lambert; L.H. Bergman; Jno. Linford.

Syllabus:

Annual Dinner, 14 Oct 1895; 'Poetry in an Age in Science' by J.E. Forty, 21 Oct 1895; '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', 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)' by H.A. Spurr, 16 Dec 1895; Christmas Revels, 23 Dec 1895.

Meetings held 8pm at the Royal Station Hotel.