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.

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.