The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 272 No 7288 p246
28 February 2004

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Honorary members

From Mr S. W. F. Holloway

The President of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society is reported as saying that the first honorary member of the Society was elected in 1868 (PJ, 14 February, p200). In fact, honorary membership is as old as the presidency. Both categories are found in the original “Laws and Constitution of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain”, adopted by a general meeting on 1 June 1841. When the list of the founders of the Society was published in The Pharmaceutical Journal on 1 January 1842 (PJ, 1841/42, pp359–86) there were already 23 honorary members of the Society.

The Royal Charter of 1843 confirmed the Society’s power to elect honorary members and to regulate, by Bye-law, their number, qualifications and privileges. Throughout the 19th century, honorary membership was restricted, by Bye-law, to “such scientific workers as have distinguished themselves in any of the branches of knowledge embraced in the educational objects of the Society”. Honorary members were given all the privileges of membership of the Society except the right of being present at general meetings and of voting for the election of Auditors and the Council.

Sydney Holloway
Leicester

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