It is a non profit- making cultural organisation with the status of a Company limited by guarantee, and a Registered Charity No.254248. It is governed by a Council of Management of between ten and eighteen Managers, plus representatives of Dorchester Town Council, West Dorset District Council and Dorset County Council and its officers are unpaid.
The Society is for anyone interested in Hardy's writings, life and times, and it takes its pride in the way in which at its meetings and Conferences non-academics and academics have met together in a harmony which would have delighted Hardy himself. Among its members are many distinguished literary and academic figures, and many more who love and enjoy Hardy's work sufficiently to wish to meet fellow enthusiasts and develop their appreciation of it.
Every other year the Society organises a Conference that attracts lecturers and students from all over the world, and it also arranges Hardy events not just in Wessex but in London, and, it is hoped, eventually in other centres.
The Hardy Society Journal, issued in Spring and Summer, and the Thomas Hardy Journal, issued in Autumn/Winter are sent free to members.
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President
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Julian Fellowes
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Vice-Presidents
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The Lord Lieutenant of Dorset
The Chairman of Dorset County Council
The Chairman of West Dorset District Council
The Mayor of Dorchester
The President of the Society of Dorset Men
The Director of the Dorset County Museum
The Lady Digby
Dr Ray Evans
Professor S. Fukasawa
Professor Barbara Hardy
Professor Seamus Heaney
Professor Samuel Hynes
Rt. Revd William Ind
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Professor Michael Irwin
Mr T. William Jesty
Mrs Vera Jesty
Dr Phillip Mallett
Professor Michael Millgate
Professor Rosemarie Morgan
Professor William W. Morgan
Professor Harold Orel
Professor Norman Page
Dr Rosemary Sumner
Mr Furse Swann
Professor Dennis Taylor
Mr Patrick Tolfree
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The Council Of Management:
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Mrs Sue Clarke
Mr Anthony Daniels
Mrs Cali Norton (Minutes Secretary)
Dr Anthony Fincham (Chairman)
Mrs Helen Gibson
Mrs Helen Lange
Mr Andrew Leah
Mr Phillip Mallett (Journal Editor)
Cllr. Peter Mann (Representing Dorchester Town Council)
Mr Mike Nixon (Secretary)
Mrs Brenda Parry
Mr Malcolm Pfaff (Treasurer)
Mrs Heather Shean
Mrs Rosemary Swann
Mrs Sue Theobald (Membership Secretary)
Dr Jane Thomas (Academic Director)
Mrs Dee Tolfree (Publications)
Miss Rebecca Welshman (Student Representative)
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The Hon. Chairman of the Sheffield (Northern) Branch
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Dr Val Reed, 52 Thompson Road, Sheffield, S11 8RB
email: VReed52@aol.com
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The Hon. Chairman of the Coventry
& Warwickshire Branch
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Margaret Grantham, 235 Valley Road, Lillington, Leamington Spa,
Warwickshire, CV32 7UF. e-mail: m.grantham@sky.com
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