Material relating to the Noviomagian Society (The Society of Noviomagus). It was founded in 1828 by a small circle of members of the Society of Antiquaries; meetings featured dinner, drinking, and usually a “roasting” of one of the members, who included: Thomas Saunders, Samuel Carter Hall, Joseph Durham, George R. Corner, William Henry Brooke, Thomas Crofton Croker, Alfred John Kempe, Robert Lemon, William Jerdan, James Robinson Planche, George Godwin, Sir Francis Graham Moon, Henry Stevens, and John Noble.
Noviomagian Society
This material is held atSociety of Antiquaries of London
- Reference
- GB 118 NOV
- Dates of Creation
- 1828-1845
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English
- Physical Description
- 2 volumes
Scope and Content
Access Information
open for consultation
Other Finding Aids
https://collections.sal.org.uk/nov
Separated Material
Two volumes of proceedings of the society and miscellaneous papers are in the library of the Wellcome Institute of Medicine (MSS 5305-7; typed description in SA MS Register). Photocopies of Noviomagian newsletters, 1855, 1858, 1861, and extracts relating to 1891, are kept with the present MSS.
Two further boxes of material relating to the Society are at the Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California in Los Angeles. See https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt367nc5fz/.
See further, for the Noviomagian Society, Charles Roach Smith, Retrospections, I (1883), passim, and Appendix 307-8; A.J., 27 (1947), 183-5 (the Noviomagians' chair).