CIPA Annual Report 2014-15 (print final)

The 133rd Annual Report
of the Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
2014-15

I was proud to be elected as President
and to have Andrea Brewster as my Vice
President. This is the first time in CIPA’s long
and distinguished history that these two
roles have been held by women; I hope
that in the near future it will be completely
unremarkable.
The last annual report covered the 2013
calendar year. This report covers 2014 and
up to the end of the Presidential year in May
2015. Future reports will be aligned with the
Presidential year.
My predecessor, Roger Burt, and Lee Davies
did a tremendous amount of work in setting
up the Internal Governance Committee.
We have benefited from the work of that
Committee, under Bobby Mukherjee’s
leadership, throughout this reporting period.
We clarified the financial position of the
Institute by making IPReg truly independent
and by paying off the pension deficit.
This enabled us to be confident in taking
decisions to invest some of our reserves,
for example in developing and obtaining
accreditation for our Litigation Skills Course.
Lee and his team have really transformed
our Institute into a membership organisation.
We held a productive and enjoyable “Not
a Council Meeting” to identify the most
important services that we should offer to
members. The output from that meeting
enabled us to define and launch SILC (Status,
Influence, Learning and Community) to
President’s Report
Catriona Hammer
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summarise our offering to members in
a memorable form. It also helped Lee to
produce and publish our first Strategic Plan.
I believe that we have greatly improved our
communications over this reporting period.
Neil Lampert has brought professional
expertise and a creative approach to
developing and sharing content. Importantly,
we surveyed our members and have used
the feedback from that survey to enhance
our communications. The monthly
newsletter is popular and we are increasing
our presence on Twitter. The Journal
continues to be valuable to members and
we are improving its appearance while
maintaining the content.
Our enhanced communications capability
has also helped us to build on our
relationships with external stakeholders
such as the IP Minister, Baroness Neville-
Rolfe, the UKIPO and the EU Commission.
CIPA is consulted formally and informally
on important IP issues. We have been
very active on the UPC, with Vicki Salmon
and Chris Mercer representing us at
the Trier hearing on the draft Rules of
Procedure. We are now focusing on
fees and representation rights. We are
also deeply involved in discussions on
harmonisation and on the proposed
Trade Secrets directive. CIPA and
other organizations lobbied
intensively to ensure
proper scoping of the
availability of criminal sanctions for design
infringement. On the trade mark side, our
re-invigorated committee has commented
on OHIM fees and is reviewing referrals to
the CJEU.
Georgina Sear has made a huge impact
on our educational capabilities. Our newly
accredited Litigation Skills course is a terrific
achievement and we look forward to
receiving feedback from the first participants.
We have increased our support to students
and to administrators and established a
new Education and Professional Standards
Committee.
Andrea has taken the lead in establishing a
Diversity Forum for the IP professions and I
look forward to seeing more progress in this
important area in the coming year.
Finally, everyone will be aware that we had
a general election recently. We produced
our first ever manifesto for all political parties
and will now be urging the government to
implement our recommendations.
I am proud of what we have achieved and
confident that we have the right team in
place to go further and faster next year.
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My work as Vice-President centred around
CIPA’s relationships with its members.
The four SILC headings (Status, Influence,
Learning, Community) provided an excellent
starting point, allowing us to align and
prioritise our activities with a clear focus on
what the Institute should be doing for the
people it represents.
There have been highlights.
The Informals felt isolated and unsupported.
We have brought them closer: now a formal
CIPA committee, they have access to all
the Institute’s support mechanisms, but
they also retain independence to decide
their own programmes and set their own
budget. It seems right to me that CIPA
should provide a proper home for its trainee
attorneys, and who better to look after it
than the Informals?
IP administrators, so vital to our work, also
sat on the fringes of the Institute, either
as associates with few clear membership
benefits, or not joining at all. We have
set up a new committee to look after
their interests, its aims being to provide
them with a voice at CIPA, professional
recognition and influence, and a clearer
career development pathway. A review
and update of the existing – widely
respected – patent administrators’ course,
and the introduction of advanced training
modules, is being overseen by the new
committee. The Trade Marks Committee
was also unsure of its remit. Together,
we have redefined its role, and through
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Andrea Brewster

a membership survey it has established
its purpose not only in supporting dual-
qualified members but also in keeping all
patent attorneys up to date with basic trade
mark knowledge, and in ensuring that CIPA
remains an influential and knowledgeable
force across the IP landscape.
The best aspect by far of my Vice-
Presidential work has been the “Meet-
the-Members” campaign. This began in
autumn 2014 as a “simple” plan to visit
CIPA members in their own offices around
the UK, to find out what they wanted
from their Institute. It turned out to be a
much bigger project and is still ongoing.
Everyone has been welcoming (especially
on the biscuit front!), and it’s been great
to meet patent attorneys in such a diverse
range of organisations: their feedback will
help Council to represent them in a more
informed manner.
Again, SILC has provided a framework for
these discussions, a story to tell about the
meaning of CIPA membership. Attorneys
recognise in it the things they value about
their Institute, in particular the voice of
influence it represents; the importance
of maintaining and promoting the CIPA
“brand”; and the benefits of bespoke and
cost-effective training. I feel privileged to
have been able to meet so many of you; it
has filled me with enthusiasm for my role
and I’ve valued your candour. Thank you to
everyone involved.
There will be plenty going on in 2015. A
pan-professional task force is working
to improve diversity in the IP professions
and make them a more welcoming place
for everyone, regardless of background.
There will be more Meet-the-Members
visits. We’re establishing a network of
regional representatives to make it easier for
members outside London to engage with,
and benefit from, CIPA membership.
I look forward to an exciting year as
President.
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The year as Immediate Past President
started with the clear realisation that
CIPA’s Bye-laws were unfit for purpose and
needed substantial updating. The task is
well under way but has proven to be rather
more difficult then we envisaged. It is clear
that the objects in CIPA’s Charter are fairly
onerous in that they require the Institute
to, not only, act as a professional and
representative body for Intellectual Property
Practitioners in patents, designs, trade marks
and other forms of intellectual property, but
also to promote the education, standing,
training and continuing professional
expertise of Intellectual Property
Practitioners and to establish, maintain
and enforce high standards of professional
conduct and compliance with the law. The
bye-laws have to be written to fully reflect
the objects and that is not an easy task.
The Intellectual Property Office’s (IPO)
Economics, Research and Evidence (ERE)
team made a number of enhancements
to its Expert Advisory Groups including
replacing the previous four groups by an
Unregistered Rights Expert Advisory Group
(Copyright / Designs) and a Registered
Rights Expert Advisory Group (Patents /
Trade Marks / Brands / Registered Designs).
I will chair the Registered Rights Expert
Advisory Group for a two year period and,
in order to ensure consistency between
the two groups, I am a member of the
Immediate Past President’s
Report
Roger Burt

Unregistered Rights Expert Advisory
Group. The aim of the groups is to provide
independent peer review and commentary
on research specifications, methodologies,
and research at both interim and pre-
publication. The members also have the
opportunity to propose areas for new
research.
A conversation with an old family friend
led to an invitation to join the team
helping with The Design Council’s SPARK
programme. The SPARK programme is a
Product Innovation Fund and accelerator
to support physical product ventures in the
UK. The Fund will support 10 individuals
or teams to take ideas to market through
a 20 week accelerator programme. They
will receive support, including mentoring,
access to manufacturing facilities,
and networking, and an initial £15,000
investment. The teams will the pitch for
follow on investment of up to £50,000
from the Fund and access to finance from
other investors at the end of the 20 weeks
at a launch event. I participate on behalf of
CIPA as a member of the investment panel
responsible for selecting the ventures that
will participate in the Fund and receive seed
investment. I have also given education and
advice along the lines of the CIPA clinics
for those individuals or teams that do not
already have their own patent attorney.

This year we are reporting on a slightly
extended period, the Annual Report
covering the period from 1 January 2014
through to the date of the Annual General
Meeting on 18 May 2015. We have three
different years at CIPA. The membership
year runs from 1 January through to 31
December. The Financial year runs from
1 October through to 30 September. The
‘governance’ year follows the term of the
Presidency, which is between the dates of
Annual General Meetings. This would have
made sense at some point, I am sure.
At the Annual General Meeting we report
on the previous financial year, meaning the
accounts are approximately seven months
past the year end. This is reasonably normal
give or take a month or so as accountants
and auditors do like to chew over the year
end and it is important that we provide
you with an accurate representation of the
Institute’s financial health. Traditionally we
have reported on the previous membership
year, meaning the Annual Report would
cover a period through to approximately five
months before the Annual General Meeting.
I happen to believe that a membership
body should be reporting back to members
in something closer to real time, so I am
delighted that Council has decided to
move the reporting period to mirror the
Presidential year.
I am now in my fourth year at CIPA and
during 2014 – 15 I think I was finally able
to throw off the ‘new boy’ tag. This is a
complex profession with many different
dimensions but at long last I can explain
what it is that patent attorneys do with
some confidence. I even went as far as
drafting a make believe patent claim
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Lee Davies

under close supervision but I am sure I have
only lightly scratched the surface of the
incredibly challenging work that you do.
My job, however, is not to try and become
a patent attorney, it is to build on the
excellent foundations we have at CIPA to
make your professional body one you can
be truly proud of.
For me, CIPA had to change. This meant
placing membership at the centre of
everything we do as a professional body and
developing a team at CIPA that strives to
provide the very best for our members. We
are not perfect but we have come a long
way in the last eighteen months and it really
feels like we have a cohesive team working
in the best interests of our members.
Change on this scale would not have been
possible without the support of the Officers
and Council. SILC is a great example of this.
I have long held the belief that the true
benefits of any membership organisation
are the unique features of belonging to
a strong professional community and do
not include discounts at clothes stores or
cheaper car insurance. I set the officers a
challenge: describe the unique benefits of
being a member of CIPA in three to five
words. When dealing with patent attorneys,
three to five words can only translate into
four words – Status, Influence, Learning
and Community. It may seem a small
achievement, but I am immensely proud
that we have been able to craft a strategic
plan around four words that should be
at the heart of every professional body’s
membership offer.
Five months in, it is far too early to measure
the success of the strategic plan and I
have always been honest with my Officers,
Council and every member I get the
opportunity to meet. The strategic plan
is a best guess. It is our first stab at taking
the concepts of Status, Influence, Learning
and Community and turning these into
something more tangible. We will get some
of it right, we will get some of it wrong but
I passionately believe that we have set the
right course for the Institute and that CIPA
will go from strength to strength.
An Annual Report should be about
highlights and these are some of mine:
zz Establishing the Patent Examination
Board as a truly independent
examining body with robust
governance arrangements and a
mission to professionalise the patent
attorney examination system.
zz Recruiting highly skilled staff with
expertise in education, membership,
media and public relations and setting
out a challenging agenda to transform
CIPA as a professional membership body.
zz Introducing live web broadcasts from

the CIPA Hall and venues around the
country to bring high quality debate
and information to a wider audience of
our members and the outside world.
zz With several other leading professional
bodies, co-founding Professions
Week and the Access to the
Professions movement to help
young people get the very best careers
information, advice and guidance.
zz Consulting widely with members
and our key partners to ensure that our
response to IPReg’s proposals to
reform the patent attorney
examination system was a constructive
critique, highlighting the pitfalls of that
initiative.
zz Lobbying at home and abroad on
critical issues such as the drafting
and implementation of the IP Bill, the
Unitary Patent and the UPC and the
consequences for UK PLC of a patent
litigation system that was potentially
injurious to the UK profession and the
UK’s business interests.
zz Migrating CIPA’s IT infrastructure
off-site into a hosted environment,
improving the Institute’s resilience and
business continuity and going out to
tender for a new membership
database and website content
management system to provide better
online services for members.
zz Being invited to talk about CIPA’s
evolution as a professional body at
national and international membership
conferences, placing this Institute
centre stage.
One of the areas where CIPA leads the way
is membership engagement through its
committee structure. I have lost count of
the number of times fellow Chief Executives
have told me what they would give to
import our level of voluntarism into their
organisations. The work of the Institute’s
committees is regularly reported in our
highly respected Journal, but allow me to
reflect on a number of examples.
There is no harder working committee
than the Patents Committee, which works
tirelessly on behalf of members at home
and abroad. This was also the year the
Committee burst into the 21st Century with
the launch of the @TheCIPAPatCom Twitter
account. I was much taken by Jim Boff’s
observation that the cap of 140 characters
somewhat limits the amount of debate
possible through social media, but twenty-
six or so characters in Council can debate
intensively.
The additional exposure we are getting
from Twitter together with more active
reporting via the CIPA Journal means that
the profile of the committee and CIPA is
being raised. The Committee has continued
its strong liaison with the UK IPO and
the EPO, together with the various other

representative groups in IP to position
CIPA as one of the most authoritative and
impartial observers in IP/patent matters. In
the early part of 2015 matters got exciting,
with the issue of independence of the
Boards of Appeal leading CIPA to make a
proposal for rule changes that would as an
interim measure provide some reassurance
of independence. This letter was favourably
commented on.
In 2014, in addition to the normal and
continuing work of considering and
commenting on legislation and practice,
and participating in consultation with the
IPO, the Patents Committee had one
big item to consider – the Unitary Patent
and Unified Patent Court. Here there is
great crossover with one of CIPA’s busiest
committees, the Litigation Committee.
When the IPO issued a Technical Review
and called for evidence concerning
secondary legislation to implement the
UP Regulation and UPC Agreement a joint
working group of the two committees
prepared CIPA’s response. The fact that
we now have a Litigation Skills Course
accredited by IPReg is a testament to
the hard work that the Committee has
put in over recent months, together
with Georgina Sear and her team and
colleagues in the Patent Examination
Board.
The Designs & Copyright
Committee led
the Institute’s
work on
examining the consequences of criminal
sanctions for designs infringement
appearing in the IP Bill. The Committee
was central in determining CIPA’s lobbying
position as we met with Lord Younger, Lord
Clement-Jones and Lord Stevenson to set
out our concerns. I think it is fair to say that
the ramifications would have been greater
but for the intervention made by CIPA. The
Committee reviewed and commented on
the implementation of the repeal of Section
52 CDPA, the Designs Opinion Service and
the Appointed Person appeal route.
Turning to the international perspective,
the International Liaison Committee
had another busy eighteen months. The
Committee met regularly to organise joint
meetings and seminars with intellectual
property organisations and government
bodies from various countries. A delegation
of members of the American Intellectual
Property Law Association (AIPLA) was
welcomed in March 2014. After a dinner at
the Goring Hotel hosted by CIPA and ITMA
the evening before, a discussion meeting
between AIPLA, CIPA and ITMA took place
in Gray’s Inn on the morning of 10 March
and was followed in the afternoon by a
CPD seminar covering patent and trade
mark topics given by members of the AIPLA
delegation.
In May, Committee members attended as
special guests a reception hosted by ITMA
at the British Consulate-General in Hong
Kong during INTA, to which members of
the All-China Patent Agents’ Association
were also invited. I was fortunate to be part
of a delegation to Montreal in June 2014

at the invitation of the Intellectual Property
Institute of Canada, IPIC, to take part in
discussions with IPIC Council and to give a
CPD seminar to IPIC members.
In September 2014, a delegation from the
All-China Patent Attorneys Association led
by Mr Perry Yang was welcomed to events
organised by CIPA in Oxford, these including
a welcome dinner at the Malmaison Hotel
(formerly a prison!), followed the next day
by a meeting with Committee members
and a CPD seminar, both held in beautiful
autumnal surroundings at Worcester
College.
During 2014, members of the Committee
welcomed to London several different
groups from China, including: a group of
judges from Yunnan Province in February
(jointly with ITMA), a group from Anhui
Provincial IP Office in July, representatives
of the Work Safety Department of the China
National Space Administration in September,
representatives of the China IP Society in
October, and in November a group from
the Department of Science and Technology
and other technology-based institutions in
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Members of the Committee met members
of the Japan Patent Attorneys Association
during the APAA Congress in Toronto in
September 2014. In October, CIPA members
attending the Asian Patent Attorneys
Association’s meeting hosted a reception
in Penang, Malaysia for members of the
Institute of Patent and Trade Mark Attorneys
(IPTA) of Australia and were invited to a
lunch with members of the Taiwan Patent
Attorneys Association (TWPAA).
The Life Sciences Committee turned its
attention to the European Regulation to
enforce the Nagoya Protocol, providing
a consultation response which was well
received by the Department of Food and
Rural Affairs. The Institute sought to be
as constructive as possible, however,
the Committee fears that the Nagoya
Protocol has the capacity to cause severe
difficulties for both academic and industrial
researchers. The Committee argued that,
in fulfilling its obligations under EU law, the
UK government should make every effort
to minimise the potential difficulties that
will arise from implementing the Nagoya
Protocol. The Committee, once again,
organised a highly successful Life Sciences
Conference.

A resurgent Trade Marks Committee roared
into life under the leadership of a new Chair,
Keith Howick. The Committee provided
detailed comments to OHIM with respect
to its consultation on its strategic plan. The
Committee conducted a survey of the CIPA
membership to gain a better understanding
of what support members who work in
the trade mark environment want from
the Institute. 457 members responded
to the survey, a 20% response rate. The
Committee discussed the results and was
encouraged that support from CIPA on
trade mark issues is still wanted by the
membership.
The Business Practice Committee,
a joint committee with ITMA, whilst

generally updating its briefing notes, spent
much of the time focussed on the impact of
IPReg’s new client account requirements on
patent and trade mark firms and lobbying
against the determination made by IPReg
that the Money Laundering Regulations
2007 apply to patent attorneys. On both
counts the lobbying work continues, but
some progress has been made with CIPA
arguing strongly that the application of the
Money Laundering Regulations to patent
and trade mark attorneys would place
both professions in a position of weakened
competitiveness in Europe and further
afield, where competitors are not subject to
this increased and unnecessary burden of
regulation.
Members of the Media and PR Committee
worked with our new Head of Media and
Public Affairs, Neil Lampert, to generate
trade media coverage on a number of
important issues and to develop our own
animated video which manages to raise
awareness of IP, encourage businesses
to protect their innovations and give a
message to the new Government about the
Unitary Patent Court - all in less then three
minutes. Neil has also been leading work
to develop a new CIPA website and has
been working with various committees to
increase our influence with the Government
and other important stakeholders at home
and abroad. We recruited a Policy Officer,
Rebecca Gulbul, to further bolster this
important, proactive policy work.
October 2014 saw another great CIPA
Congress delivered by the Congress
Steering Committee. Bringing together
delegates from industry and private practice
and with a theme of the intellectual property
system from the cradle to the grave, we
had a sharp focus on the commercial
application of IP provided by a high profile
gathering of speakers. An innovation this
year was the introduction of a professional
compere to control the proceedings. This
brought a fresh feel to the day and also
lifted a great weight from the shoulders
of the President and Vice-President who
were free to network with delegates rather
than worry about the next session on the
programme.
Two new committees came into
being during the last year. The Internal
Governance Committee has been
established to ensure that the Institute has
in place robust governance procedures
and leads on all finance, employment and
general legal matters. The new Education
& Professional Standards Committee
will provide a new focus on educational
matters and will be tasked with developing
a long overdue set of professional standards
detailing the skills and knowledge required
for a 21st Century patent attorney, out of
which CIPA will build a vibrant education
programme.

Committees
Laws Committees
Computer Technology Committee
Chair: Simon Davies, D. Young & Co. LLP
Designs & Copyright Committee
Chair: David Musker, Jenkins
European Patent Liaison Committee (reports
through the Patents Committee)
Chair: Gwilym Roberts, Kilburn & Strode LLP
Life Sciences Committee
Chair: Simon Wright, J A Kemp
Patents Committee
Chair: Jim Boff, Phillips & Leigh
Trade Marks Committee
Chair: Keith Howick, Carpmaels & Ransford
Internal Committees
Business Practice Committee (joint with ITMA)
Chair: Maggie Ramage, Alexander Ramage
Associates (ITMA)
Vice-Chair: Matt Dixon, Harrison Goddard Foote
(CIPA)
Congress Steering Committee
Chair: John Brown
Constitutional Committee
Chair: Jim Boff, Phillips & Leigh
Succeeded by Alasdair Poore, Mills & Reeve
Education & Professional Standards
Committee
Chair: Simone Ferrara, Vodafone
Informals Committee
Honorary Secretary: Parminder Lally, Marks &
Clerk LLP
Internal Governance Committee
Chair: Bobby Mukherjee, BAE Systems
Patent Administrators’ Committee
Chair: Andrea Brewster, Greaves Brewster LLP
Patent Examination Board
Chair: Rob Taylor (Lay Member)
Textbooks & Publications
Chair: Bill Jones, ip21 Ltd.
Outside Interest Committees
Academic Liaison Committee
Chair: Paul Denerley
Succeeded by Tony Rollins
International Liaison Committee
Chair: Robert Ackroyd, W P Thompson & Co
Litigation Committee
Chair: Vicki Salmon, IP Asset LLP
Media & Public Relations Committee
Chair: Robert Jackson, Dehns
Protected Titles Committee
Chair: Lee Davies, CIPA

Council
The members of Council during 2014-15 were
as follows:
President:
R J Burt (until 21 May 2014)
C M Hammer (from 21 May 2014)
Vice-President:
C M Hammer (until 21 May 2014)
A R Brewster (from 21 May 2014)
Ordinary Members of Council (1 January 2014 –
18 May 2015):
R Ackroyd, J C Boff, A R Brewster (served
as Vice-President from 21 May 2014), J D
Brown (until 21 May 2014), R J Burt (served as
Immediate Past President from 21 May 2014),
P L Cole (from 21 May 2014), S R Davies, R J
H Davis, P M Denerley, P M Dixon, S Ferrara
(from 21 May 2014), J V Gowshall (until 21 May
2014), S Harte (from 21 May 2014), A M Hector,
K L Hodkinson, J T Jackson, R P Jackson, S F
Jones (until 21 May 2014), C P Mercer (served
as Immediate Past President until 21 May 2014),
A Mukherjee, B N C Ouzman, A D Poore, G V
Roberts, T W Roberts, A J Rollins, V B Salmon, J
M Vleck, S M Wright

General Meetings of the Institute
The One Hundred and Thirty-Second Annual
General Meeting was held on 21 May 2014.
The 805th Ordinary General Meeting was held
at Downing College, Cambridge, on Friday 17
January 2014.
at the Mercure Brigstow Hotel, Bristol, on Friday
7 February 2014.
at the Double Tree by Hilton, Granary Wharf,
Leeds, on Friday 14 March 2014.
The 808th Ordinary General Meeting was
held at the Caledonian Hotel, Princess Street,
Edinburgh, on Friday 25 April 2014.
at the Institute’s Hall, Chancery Lane, London,
on Wednesday 9 July 2014.
The 810th Ordinary General Meeting was held at
the Institute’s Hall, Chancery Lane, London, on
Wednesday 5 November 2014.
at the Double Tree by Hilton, Granary Wharf,
Leeds, on Thursday 19 March 2015.
at the Mercure Bristol Brigstow Hotel, Bristol, on
Thursday 16 April 2015.


Presidents
John Henry Johnson (1882-1884)
John Imray (1884-1886)
William Carpmael (1886-1888)
John Clayton Mewburn (1888-1890)
Sir William Lloyd Wise (1890-1897)
Charles Denton Abel (1897-1899)
Edward Carpmael (1899-1901)
Philip Middleton Justice (1901-1903)
George Gatton Melhuish Hardingham (1903-
1905)
John Corry Fell (1905-1907)
William Clark (1907-1909)
Oliver Imray (1909-1911)
Thomas Alfred Hearson (1911-1913)
George Barker (1913-1915)
John Ebenezer Bousfield (1915-1917)
William John Tennant (1917-1919)
Robert Bolton Ransford (1919-1923)
Bertram Edward Dunbar Kilburn (1921-1923)
Harold Wade (1923-1924)
Reginald Haddan (1924-1925)
Hubert Alexander Gill (1925-1926)(1939-1940)
Arthur George Bloxam (1926-1927)
John Edward Lloyd Barnes (1927-1928)
Reginald William James (1928-1929)
Arthur Woosnam (1929-1930)
Griffith Brewer (1930-1931)
Arthur Stuart Cachemaille (1931-1932)
Frederick Gilbert Brettell (1932-1933)
Gordon Melville Clark (1933-1934)
Alfred Augustus Thornton (1934-1935)
George Edward Folkes (1935-1936)
Richard John Tugwood (1936-1937)
Arthur Carpmael (1937-1938)
William Henry Ballantyne (1938-1939)
Henry Withers Kickweed Jennings (1940-1942)
Walter Philip Williams (1942-1943)
Ernest William Moss (1943-1944)
William Warren Triggs (1944-1945) (1949-1950)
Evan Lovell Widdrington Byrne (1945-1946)
Arthur Abbey (1946-1947)
Harold Joseph Charles Forrester (1947-1948)
Cecil Edward Every (1948-1949)
John Oswald Farrer (1950-1951)
Frederick Walter Rudolph Leistikow (1951-1952)
Edward Buckmaster Robinson (1952-1953)
William Ogilvy Duncan (1953-1954)
Edward Williamson (1954-1955)
Thomas Ballantyne Clerk (1955-1956)
Eric Walter Eustace Micklethwait (1956-1957)
James George Fife (1957-1958)
Henri Georges Bouly (1958-1959)
Harry Morgan Yeatman (1959-1960)
John Richard Tugwood (1960-1961)
Michael Hesketh-Prichard (1961-1963)
John Clifford Holgate Ellis (1963-1964)
Maurice Herbert Carpmael (1964-1965)
Alan Wilmot Beeston (1965-1966)
Charles William Morle (1966-1967)
Walter John Charles Chapple (1967-1968)
Cyril George Wickham (1968-1969)
Peter Lloyd Bowtell (1969-1970)
Owen Wynn Jaques (1970-1971)
John Stephen Bushell (1971-1972)
Walter Weston (1972-1973)
Francis William Berthold Kittel (1973-1974)
George Arthur Bloxam (1974-1975)
Nicholas James Flower (1975-1976)
John Melbourn Aubrey (1976-1977)
Arthur Terence Ranson (1977-1978)
Gordon Hawksley Edmunds (1978-1979)
Richard Courtenay Petersen (1979-1980)
Norman Waddleton (1980-1981)
John Ulysses Neukom (1981-1982)
John Henderson Dunlop (1982-1983)
Bernard Fisher (1983-1984)
Angus Henry Duncan (1984-1985)
Peter Robin Broughton Lawrence (1985-1986)
Keith Baynes Weatherald (1986-1987)
Sidney David Votier (1987-1988)

Richard John Gallafent (1988-1989)
Philip Antony Smith (1989-1990)
William Egerton Caro (1990-1991)
Clifford Lees (1991-1992)
William Robert Farwell (1992-1993)
John Mackay Reid (1993-1994)
John Douglas McCall (1994-1995)
Richard Fennelly Fawcett (1995-1996)
Andrew Charles Serjeant (1996-1997)
Robert William Beckham (1997-1998)
Tibor Zoltán Gold (1998-1999)
Peter Geoffrey Mole (1999-2000)
Edward Willoughby Brooke Lyndon-Stanford
(2000-2001)
Timothy Wace Roberts (2001-2002)
John David Brown (2002-2003)
Anna Marie Denholm (2003-2004)
Thomas Bruce Alexander (2004-2005)
Michael Robert Harrison (2005-2006)
Barry William Treves (2006-2007)
Robert Dale Weston (2007-2008)
Dave William Bradley (2008-2009)
John David Brown (2009-2010)
Alasdair David Poore (2010-2011)
Timothy Wace Roberts (2011-12)
Christopher Paul Mercer (2012-13)
Roger James Burt (2013-14)
Catriona Macleod Hammer (2014-15)
Membership
During the period 1 January to 31 December
2014, the following were elected to
membership:
75 Fellows
28 Associates
155 Students
258 members elected
The Council records with regret the deaths of:
10 Fellows
The Council received and accepted the
resignations of:
39 Fellows
16 Associates
5 Foreign
18 Students
78 Resignations
The following were excluded from membership
for non-payment of their annual subscriptions:
19 Fellows
18 Associates
2 Foreign
31 Students
70 members excluded
Total membership summary as at 31 December
2014:
Fellows 2233
Associates 526
Students 717
British Oversea Members 25
Foreign Members 81
Honorary Members 10
Total 3592

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