1900 Automobile Club Annual Dinner

Automobile Club’s Annual Dinner 14th November 1900

On Wednesday evening last, under the chairmanship of Mr. Roger Wallace, Q.C., the president of the club, the A.C.G.B. and friends, to the number of 150, gathered in the Banqueting Hall of the Metropole Hotel for their annual dinner.

The Chairman was supported by -

• C. Stuart Wortley, Right Hon., Q.C., M.P.,
• Jno. Scott Montagu, Right Hon. , M.P.,
• W. S. Holt,
• Richard Harrison, Sir, C.E., K.C.B., C.M.G. (Inspector General of Fortifications),
• Colonel R. E. Crompton, R.E.,
• Thomas Gordon, General Sir, K.C.I.E., C.B., C.S.I.,
• Lord Borthwick,
• Cecil Duncombe, Captain the Hon., J.P.,
• M. L. Sant, Captain, (Chief Constable of the County of Surrey),
• J. Cumming-Macdona, M.P.,
• W. Worby Beaumont, C.E.,
• Frederick Simms,
• Alfred Bird,
• A. L. Jones (chairman of Liverpool Centre),
• W. E. Rowcliffe (acting president Manchester Centre),
• W. W. Marks (clerk Bedfordshire County Council),
• E. Archdall Ffooks (clerk Dorsetshire County Council),
• Henry Edmunds,
• Boverton Redwood, Professor, Ph.D., F.R.S.E.,
• J. J. Thornycroft, F.R.S.,
• Paris Singer, and others.

The vice-chairs were occupied by

• T. W. Staplee Firth and
• Claud Johnson (secretary), flanked by
• E. Shrapnell Smith (hon. sec. Liverpool Self-Propelled Traffic Association),
• C. Harrington Moore (hon. sec.),
• C. S. Rolls, Hon., and
• R. E. Phillips, M.I.C.E.

Amongst those present were also remarked Messrs.

• H. A. House,
• Julius Harvey,
• R. B. B. Bruce,
• W. J. Crampton,
• Maurice Egerton,
• M. D. Rucker,
• H. J. Mlliner,
• Edward M. Iliffe,
• Stanley Spooner,
• R. L. Freeston,
• F. T. Bidlake,
• A. J. Wilson,
• G. Iden,
• Dr. Lehwess,
• Maurice Capellon,
• T. Clarkson,
• Percy Northey,
• B. Blount,
• J. D. Siddeley,
• J. S. Critchley,
• F. Lanchester,
• Vernon Pugh.
• Mark Mayhew, L.C.C.,
• S. F. Edge,
• C. Jarrott,
• Clarence Gregson,
• F. Strickland,
• Lyons Sampson,
• T. B. Browne,
• Rowland Browne,
• Dr. J. J. Ackworth,
• Alfred Burgess, and
• J. J. Mann.

After dinner, the Chairman, in proposing the usual loyal toasts, referred to the fact that now automobilists were honoured by numbering H.R.H. the Prince of Wales amongst their number. The Navy, Army, and Reserve Forces also came from the Chair, with fitting allusions to the gallant behaviour of all three services during the now closing campaign in South Africa, the toast being coupled with the name of General Sir Rd. Harrison, R.E., K.C.B., C.M.B. (Inspector General of Fortifications) . . . . . . . (continues)