From the founding of the Society in 1910 each of the Presidential Addresses has been printed in Transactions. In addition since 1947 the following papers have also been published in Transactions.

1947 John Hetherington: The Tour of the Hebrides: Its Value to the Social Historian

Willard Connely: George Farquhar and Lichfield

1950 Percy Laithwaite: The Beginnings of Lichfield

1951 Rev W E Foster: Samuel Johnson and the Dodd Affair

1952 W E Anderson: Young Boswell.

1954 S A Jeavons: The Rise of Sculpture in Staffordshire During the Sixteenth Century

1955 A M Grutter: The Changing Art of the Novelist

1956 S Lilley: Dr Erasmus Darwin of Lichfield

1957 W J Smith: Law Enforcement in the Eighteenth Century

1958 Prebendary H Bayliss: The Hospital of St John Baptist Without the Barrs of the

City of Lichfield: Some Notes on Its History

1959 Marjorie Jones: Housman and Johnson: Some Similarities

1960 John Hampson: Thomas Love Peacock: A Nineteenth Century Eccentric.

1961 W G Wright: Dr Samuel Johnson - the Man

1962 T R J West: Joseph Addison

1964 G Barnes: Johnson's Edition of Shakespeare

1965 Gareth Lloyd-Evans: Garrick and the Eighteenth Century Theatre

1966 Michael Rix: Erasmus Darwin and the Lunar Society

1967 Kai Kin Yung: Some Notes on Johnson's Birthplace

1968 Dennis Gibbs: Sir John Floyer

1969 J Clement Jones: Dr Johnson - Mass Communicator

R L Chambers: Samuel Johnson at Stourbridge

1970 Michael Sadler: Dr Johnson in Derbyshire

1971 Graham Winteringham: The Birthplace and its Restoration

1972 His Honour Judge Perrett: Gilbert Walmsley

1973 Mary Hyde: Johnson and Reynold's Tour of Devon Retraced

Ronald P Doig: Reactions to the 'Journey to the Western Islands'

1974 Eugene Thomas: Dr Johnson and his Amanuenses

J W Whiston: Some Letters and Accounts of Michael Johnson

Phinizy Spalding: Oglethorpe and Johnson: A Cordial Connection

1975 Graham Nicholls: The Race with Death: Samuel Johnson and a Sense of Ending

Angus Cameron: Samuel Johnson's Spectacles: An Opthalmological Investigation

1976 Bertram H Davis: A Matter for Dispute: Thomas Percy and Samuel Johnson

Howard Erskine-Hill: Johnson and the Petty Particular

1977 Robin Simon: Hester Lynch Piozzi's 'Memories of Hogarth'

1978 Andrew Paine: S. Michael's: The Johnson Family Church

1979 Rosaline Miles: Little Davy, Garrick, Johnson and Shakespeare

Philip Mahone Griffith: Topographical Imagery of Johnson's 'Rasselas'

Neil Tomkinson: Johnson's Lax Talk (short article)

Robert White: The Bi-Centenary in 1984 (note)

Robert Cordon Champ: Johnson in 1780 (short article)

John D Austin: Johnson's Copy of Vossius's 'Etymologicon' (note)

1980 Francis Doherty: Samuel Johnson in His Poetry

Mary Katherine Woodworth: New Light on Mary Knowles and Dr Brocklesby

Mary E Knapp: A Poem to Johnson's Molly Aston (note)

Birthplace Museum (note)

Robert Cordon Champ: Johnson in 1781: The Downhill Slope (short article)

1981 B S Benedikz: Faith and Care: A View of Two Distinguished Lichfield Citizens

Herman W Liebert: Samuel Johnson, Bookseller at Uttoxeter Market (short article)

Bertram H Davis: The Anonymous Letter Proposing Johnson's Pension (note)

John D Austin: George Whale (1846-1925): A Forgotten Johnsonian (short article)

Robert Cordon Champ: Johnson in 1782: The Turbulent Mind

1982 Peter James: John Alcock (1715-1806), Cathedral Organist,Novelist and Reformer

Francis Doherty: Solitude and Johnson

John A Vance: The Samuel Johnson - Joseph Warton Friendship

Jack Harris: Johnson at Hagley 1774 (short article)

Graham Nicholls: A Presentation Copy of the First Edition of Johnson's 'Dictionary?' (note)

Francis Doherty: On the Death of Robert Levet: Elegy and Challenge

Neil Tomkinson: The Revd William Baker (note)

Robert Cordon Champ: Johnson in 1784: Without Life

Robert Cooperman: Samuel Johnson Does Penance in the Rain (poem)

Edgar Secord: Reflections upon Dr Johnson's Criticism of Milton (short article)

Mary Salloway: Silver from the Age of Johnson

1984 Graham Nicholls: This is Taking Prodigious Pains about a Man (review of Bi-Centenary events)

Eithne Henson: Samuel Johnson and the Romance of Chivalry

Ian MacIntyre: The Lichfield Festival Sermon

Graham Nicholls: The Uttoxeter Penance Again: Its Problems and Significance

Two Exhibitions: (The Arts Council and Bicentenary Committee exhibitions)

1985 Ken Edward Smith: By Strong Agitation: Johnson, Warburton and the Meaning of

Shakespeare's Texts

Pat Rogers: Michael Johnson: Another Lichfield document (note)

O M Brack: Johnson in Defence of Eating Otter (note)

Pat Rogers: Johnson at the Draughts Board

1986 Douglas Johnson: The Last Days of Frank Barber

Christine Salmon: The Employment of Liberty: Women and the Choice of Life in 'Rasselas'

H Jack Haden: Anna Seward and a Sonnet

Neil Tomkinson: Johnson a Saint? (a letter)

Edward Lovibond: The Mulberry Tree (reprint)

1987 O M Brack: Richard Cockle Lucas's Statue of Samuel Johnson: The 150th Anniversary

Graham Nicholls: Three New Receipts of Michael Johnson

Gregory Clingham: A Minor Source of Johnson's Life of Pope

Neil Tomkinson: Two Love Letters of Cornelius Ford

Jacob Tonson to Edward Cave, 11 April 1745 (reprint)

1988 Douglas Johnson: New Light on Tom Browne?

Graham Nicholls: George Birkbeck Hill, The Times, and the Centenary 1884

Donald Greene: Johnson's "Saintdom": A Reply (letter)

1989 Richard Harries: Cathedral Sermon

Graham Nicholls: A New Look at the Birthplace

1990 Philip Smallwood: Johnson's Critical Humanism

J D Fleeman: Johnson and Boswell in Scotland

J Enoch Powell: Cathedral Address

J D Fleeman: Uttoxetter Commemorative Address

Neil Tomkinson: Johnson's Saintdom

Graham Nicholls: A Newly Discovered Johnson Letter.

'The Mantle of Johnson Descends on Gisbourne':

Samuel Johnson and Some Controversies of the 1820's

1991 David Wormersley: Johnson and the Past Tense

1992 John Whale: A Sermon on the Morning after the Johnson Supper

Graham Nicholls: English Literature in the Time of Johnson

Donald Greene: Johnson's "Saintdom"

T J Murray: The Medical History of Doctor Samuel Johnson

1993 Leslie Chilton: Samuel Johnson and the Adventures of Telemachus

Daisuke Nagashima: Johnson in Japan

Julia Allen: 'Hateful Practices' and 'Horrid Operations'. Johnson's Views

on Vivisection

1994 Donald Greene: Catholicism in Johnson's Lobo

William Rees-Mogg: He Gave Us Johnson

Graham Nicholls: Thomas Harwood's Copy of Boswell's "Life of Johnson, An

Account of the Life of Dr Samuel Johnson Written by Himself" and a Local Rumour about Nathanael Johnson

1995 Anne McDermott: The Making of Johnson's Dictionary on CD-ROM

Ian Campbell: Boswell's Johnson: Johnson's Boswell

Rosemary Harthill: Faith, Fact and Fiction - Dr Johnson

1996 Brian Todd: A Man Led by a Bear: Dr Johnson's relationship with Boswell's wife,

Margaret Montgomerie

Howard Clayton: A Johnsonian Eccentric: the story behind Lichfield's statue of

Johnson

Percy M Young: ".....that clever dog Burney"

Anthony Wilson: ".......a wretch that supports with insolence and is paid with

flattery"

1997 James T Boulton: The Wisdom of Samuel Johnson.

Graham Nicholls: "Better Acquainted with My Heart": Johnson's Friendship with John Taylor.

1998 The Very Revd Robert Jerffrey: Cathedral Sermon

Graham Nicholls: Johnson on the Road

1999 Patrick Hanks: Samuel Johnson and Modern Lexicography

2000 Martin Bell: An Independent View of Samuel Johnson

David Daniell and David Crystal: The Bible and the Dictionary

2001 Graham Nicholls: Johnson Reads for the Dictionary

Denis Gibbs: Sir John Floyer, Dr. Johnson and the Stanhope Family:

Some personal and professional links

2002 Ian McIntyre: Johnson and Garrick

Alan Barnes: Dr. Johnson in Ashbourne

Kenneth Bowe: A Famous Argument and a Family House Restored

2003 Vanessa Collingridge: Captain Cook

Denis Gibbs: Two Views of Lichfield Depicted in Fore-edge Paintings

Philip Spinks: Why a Hatred for Sir John Pringle?

Martha Ross Smith: The Whitehalls of Pipe Rideware

2004 Frances Wilson: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson: The Impossibility of Biography

Stefka Ritchie: ‘In Awe of Nature’: Samuel Johnson and Joseph Wright of Derby

Mary Hyde: Johnson and Reynolds’ Tour of Devon Re-traced

2005 James T Boulton: "James 'Corsica' Boswell Spin-doctor and Moralist,

John Dudley: " An Englishman, an Irishman, an American and John Locke's Empiricism"

Sean Day-Lewis: "The Whispering Roots - A Life of Day-Lewis" (Extracts only)

2006 Norma Clarke: " 'Parallel Lives': Mrs Pilkington in Doctor Johnson"

Annette French: "Mr Greene's Museum of Curiousities"

Lars Sonneson: "Who Was Johnson's Mysterious Swede?"

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