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R. IVAR GUNN – Chairman
R. Ivar Gunn, was the first Chairman of the Society. He was a complete and lifelong Sherlockian.
GAVIN BREND – Chairman
Gavin Brend was an ardent and unconventional Sherlockian.
GUY WARRACK – Chairman | Honorary member
Guy Warrack was a distinguished Holmesian and was deservedly recognised as an honorary member of our Society.
MAURICE CAMPBELL
Chairman
From the Society’s first conception in 1951 Maurice Campbell was already one of us, giving of his counsel and promising a contact with the surviving members of the pre-war Society.
JAMES HOLROYD
Chairman | Honorary Member
James Holroyd, O.B.E, was one of the mainsprings from which the new Society took off in 1951, following the Sherlock Holmes Exhibition in the Abbey National Building in Baker Street.
SIR SYDNEY ROBERTS
President
When the Sherlock Holmes Society of London was founded in 1951, Mr. Roberts (as he then was) was invited to be its first President, an office he filled until his death in 1966.
LORD GORE-BOOTH
President
Paul Gore-Booth was an Irishman and the nephew of the distinguished poetess Eva Gore-Booth. He loved all the Canon and the crowded canvas of characters who appear in its pages.
FREDA HOWLETT
President
At the time of her death in 2020, Freda Howlett was the last person whose membership and recollections went back to our very beginning in 1951.
FRANK ALLEN
President and Chairman
Frank Allen was one of the most striking and memorable personalities in the Society’s history and, depending on whether he was in disputatious or merely convivial mode, he combined the qualities of Doctor Johnson with those of the Ghost of Christmas Present.
CHARLES SCHOLEFIELD
President and Chairman
Sitting at breakfast in the grand Hotel Victoria- Jungfrau, as a very new and humble member of our Society on the 1978 Swiss trip, I was startled to find Professor Moriarty in person taking the place beside me. “Ah, good morning” he said to the assembled company, and it sounded like a silken but deadly threat.