Previous meetings

11 MARCH 2008 John Makinson, Chairman and Chief Executive, The Penguin Group.

5 DECEMBER 2007 The Society’s annual general meeting was followed by a talk given by John Kampfner, editor of the New Statesman, on “Life after Blair: how has it changed for the public and media alike?”.

21 NOVEMBER 2007 Tom Glocer spoke at a special meeting on the Thomson-Reuters “combination”.

4 OCTOBER 2007 Martyn Broughton, editor of Reuters AlertNet, on “Reuters Gift to Disaster Relief” on the occasion of AlertNet’s 10th anniversary.

20 JUNE 2007 Lady Brenda Maddox, former Reuters desk editor, on memories of Fleet Street.

26 APRIL 2007 (Edinburgh) James Boyle.

8 MARCH 2007 John Morrison, author of his satirical work Anthony Blair, Captain of School, by an Old Boy.

6 DECEMBER 2006 Annual general meeting followed by Dr Sarmila Bose, director of Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, introduced by Rosemary Martin, Reuters general counsel and director of corporate social responsibility.

6 OCTOBER 2006 Nick White on his exploit in cycling from Land’s End to the top of the Shetland Islands for charity.

21 JUNE 2006 Paul Mylrea, director of media relations for Transport for London, on his role in explaining some of Mayor Ken Livingstone’s more controversial policies - from the Congestion Charge to the Bendy Bus - and backing London’s Olympic bid.

2 MARCH 2006 Tom Thomson and Scott Thornton on their post-Reuters experiences, from strings (Thomson is chairman of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) to spin (Thornton’s company, Scot PR, has been voted Scotland’s top independent public relations consultancy).

6 DECEMBER 2005 Niall Fitzgerald

6 OCTOBER 2005 Michela Wrong

22 JUNE 2005 Adrienne Farrell and Peter Jackson

6 APRIL 2005 (Lille) Bob Taylor

2 MARCH 2005 Peter Montagnon

2 DECEMBER 2004 Frederick Forsyth

6 OCTOBER 2004 Jeremy Penn

10 JUNE 2004 Isabel Grindal, Barry Moody and Alex Smith

11 MARCH 2004 Andrew Gowers

1 DECEMBER 2003 Tom Glocer

6 OCTOBER 2003 Sir Christopher Hogg

16 JUNE 2003 Paddy Coulter

16 MAY 2003 (special meeting on pensions) David Grigson

12 MAY 2003 Geert Linnebank

5 DECEMBER 2002 Alexander Chancellor

9 OCTOBER 2002 John Albanie

11 JUNE 2002 Patrick Mannix

7 MARCH 2002 Tom Thomson

29 NOVEMBER 2001 Sir Peter Job

18 OCTOBER 2001 Pehr Gyllenhammar introduced by Michael Reupke

12 JUNE 2001 Godfrey Hodgson

7 MARCH 2001 Michael Nelson

7 DECEMBER 2000 Michael Bland

17 OCTOBER 2000 Jonathan Fenby and Reuters board directors Tom Glocer, Philip Green, David Grigson, Rob Rowley

14 JUNE 2000 Doon Campbell and Anthony Grey

9 MARCH 2000 Mark Wood

8 DECEMBER 1999 Sandy Gall

7 OCTOBER 1999 Robert Etherington

21 JUNE 1999 David Ure

4 MARCH 1999 Ros Wilton

9 DECEMBER 1998 David Sells

8 OCTOBER 1998 Jacqueline Reed

16 JUNE 1998 Christopher Roper

11 MARCH 1998 John Suchet

11 DECEMBER 1997 Anne Sebba

8 OCTOBER 1997 Stephen Somerville

3 JULY 1997 Mark Brayne

18 MARCH 1997 Anthony Grey

10 DECEMBER 1996 Mark Wood

16 OCTOBER 1996 David Chipp

23 JULY 1996 Derek Prag

21 MARCH 1996 Shahe Gubenlian

13 DECEMBER 1995 Michael Sanderson

10 OCTOBER 1995 Bruce Russell

20 JULY 1995 Stephen Somerville

29 MARCH 1995 Robert Elphick

13 DECEMBER 1994 Jonathan Fenby

11 OCTOBER 1994 Peter and Elfi Johnson, Fiona Fleck

19 JULY 1994 David Chipp, Geoff Weetman and David Schlesinger

29 MARCH 1994 Enrique Jara, Hans Ouwerkerk and Geoff Chapman

9 DECEMBER 1993 Elizabeth de Mauny and Donald Read

18 OCTOBER 1993 David Morgan

14 JUNE 1993 John Earle, Jonathan Fenby, Mark Wood, Hugh Pain, Kurt Schork and Paul Holmes

24 MARCH 1993 Robert Elphick and Alan Paterson

8 DECEMBER 1992 AGM

16 SEPTEMBER 1992 David Chipp

18 JUNE 1992 Mark Wood

25 MARCH 1992 David Rogers, Harvey Morris and Patrick Seale

19 NOVEMBER 1991 Peter Job

29 AUGUST 1991 Derek Jameson

26 FEBRUARY 1991 Robert Evans

16 OCTOBER 1990 Donald Read ■