Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Founding of the Society

Year Authority / Notes

1710 According to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society website (), the Society is the "earliest provincial association for the encouragement of archaeology" and "was founded by Maurice Johnson, (1688-1755)". It began in 1710 as a series of informal meetings in Spalding, and was established more formally in 1712.

Seat of the Society

City Authority / Notes

Spalding
England This location is supported by the name of the Society.

Name of the Society

Dates Name Authority

1732 Gentlemen's Society in Spalding The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for a 1944 photographic reproduction of the following 1732 publication A Plan of the Town of Spalding in South Holland, Lincolnshire, as surveyed, delineated and humbly presented to the Gentlemen's Society in Spalding, by ... John Grundy.

1790 - 1851 Gentlemen's Society at Spalding The Oxford Univ. cat. has a record for the following 1790 publication An account of the Gentlemen's society at Spalding; it also has a record for the following 1851 publication The Gentlemen's society at Spalding: its origin and progress [a paper by W. Moore. Followed by] A list of members.

1892 Spalding Gentleman's Society The Cambridge Univ. cat. has a record for the following 1892 publication The Holbeach parish register of baptisms,marriages and burials,A.D.1606 and 1613-1641;... / ...arranged by the Rev.Grant W.Macdonald ; Also a paper read by him before the Spalding Gentleman's Society,4th November,1891

1893 - Spalding Gentlemen's Society The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for the following 1893 publication Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Tracts in the Library of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. Compiled by E. W. Maples, B.A., and George Goodwin ... revised, etc.; this is the current name used at its website ().

Spalding Gentlemen's Society

Journals of the Society

Years Full Journal Title Abbrev. Indexed
1712 - 1755

A Minute-Books of The Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755
The Harvard Univ. cat. record indicates that these were selected and introduced by Dorothy M. Owen, with the help of S.W. Woodward, and published by the Lincoln Record Society, 1981.
[Harvard Univ. cat.]

Spalding Gentlemen's Society
Founding of the Society
Year	Authority / Notes
1710	According to the Spalding Gentlemen's Society website (), the Society is the "earliest provincial association for the encouragement of archaeology" and "was founded by Maurice Johnson, (1688-1755)". It began in 1710 as a series of informal meetings in Spalding, and was established more formally in 1712.
Seat of the Society
City	Authority / Notes
Spalding England	This location is supported by the name of the Society.
Name of the Society
Dates	Name	Authority
1732	*Gentlemen's Society in Spalding*	The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for a 1944 photographic reproduction of the following 1732 publication *A Plan of the Town of Spalding in South Holland, Lincolnshire, as surveyed, delineated and humbly presented to the Gentlemen's Society in Spalding, by ... John Grundy*.
1790 - 1851	*Gentlemen's Society at Spalding*	The Oxford Univ. cat. has a record for the following 1790 publication *An account of the Gentlemen's society at Spalding; it also has a record for the following 1851 publication The Gentlemen's society at Spalding: its origin and progress [a paper by W. Moore. Followed by] A list of members*.
1892	*Spalding Gentleman's Society*	The Cambridge Univ. cat. has a record for the following 1892 publication The Holbeach parish register of baptisms,marriages and burials,A.D.1606 and 1613-1641;... / ...arranged by the Rev.Grant W.Macdonald ; Also a paper read by him before the Spalding Gentleman's Society,4th November,1891
1893 -	*Spalding Gentlemen's Society*	The Brit. Lib. cat. has a record for the following 1893 publication *Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Pamphlets and Tracts in the Library of the Spalding Gentlemen's Society. Compiled by E. W. Maples, B.A., and George Goodwin ... revised, etc.*; this is the current name used at its website ().
*Spalding Gentlemen's Society*

Journals of the Society
Years	Full Journal Title	Abbrev.	Indexed
1712 - 1755 A	*Minute-Books of The Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1712-1755* The Harvard Univ. cat. record indicates that these were selected and introduced by Dorothy M. Owen, with the help of S.W. Woodward, and published by the Lincoln Record Society, 1981. [Harvard Univ. cat.]