GEOFFREY WALTER SMITH FUND
When Geoffrey Walter Smith (1929- 1998) died he left the Club a collection of photographs and a substantial financial legacy, although he was not a Club member. He lived quietly in Hereford in a road not far from the Rose & Crown pub on the Ledbury Road. There is an article about him and his photographs in A Herefordshire Miscellany, 2000, pp.27-36
It was decided that the Club should set up a fund in his name and use the income from his legacy to support publications about Herefordshire within the Club’s sphere of interest. Latterly the club has also made grants from the fund towards projects such as archaeology. Many of the publications have benefited from extra help with the cost of colour illustrations, for example. A list of publications supported is given below.
More information about applying for a grant from the fund can be found by contacting the GWS chairman via CONTACT US. Grants must be sought well before printing and publication.
GRANTS TO DATE
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2005 |
B.S. Smith |
Colour illustrations for Herefordshire Maps 1577 to 1800 |
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2005 |
M.A. Faraday |
Publication by WNFC of Herefordshire Taxes in the reign of Henry VIII |
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2007 |
Kathryn Davies |
Subsidy towards publication of Secular wall-paintings in the Welsh Marches |
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2007 |
Beryl Lewis |
Subsidy to Kington History Society towards publication of Boundary landscapes. |
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2008 |
M.A. Faraday |
Subsidy for Herefordshire probates and administrations 1407-1541 |
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2008 |
Geology Section |
Loan for publication of a CD of an event in the section |
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2009 |
Jean Currie |
Colour illustrations for Three centuries of a Herefordshire village – Putley. |
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2010 |
Geology section |
Grant towards Herefordshire; Its geology and scenery (published 2017) |
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2010 |
Beryl Harding |
Illustrations for History of Lower House Farm, Tupsley |
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2010 |
H. Hurley |
Illustrations for The Green Lanes of Herefordshire |
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2010 |
B. Smith |
Subsidy for Turnastone: Stability and change in the Herefordshire Countryside 1800-2000. |
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2012 |
A. Malpas |
Subsidy to Leominster History Study Group towards the publication of Hymns Ancient and Modern and Henry Williams Baker. A Herefordshire vicar and his Hymn Book. |
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2013 |
J. Cooper |
Grant to Herefordshire VCH. Parish history of Eastnor |
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2014 |
B. Voss |
Grant to Eardisland Local History Group for analysis of pottery. |
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2014 |
Allan Wyatt |
Subsidy towards publication of A History of Edvin Loach by Bromyard Local History Society. |
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2014 |
A. Malpas |
Grant towards Leominster Museum republishing a booklet on Leominster in the Great War. |
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2016 |
J. Cooper |
Grant to Herefordshire VCH. Parish history of Bosbury |
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2017 |
J. Lumby |
Illustrations for Poems and Paintings of Herefordshire |
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2017 |
H. Tomlinson |
Subsidy for Hereford Cathedral School. A History over 800 years. |
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2018 |
D. Whitehead |
Subsidy for catalogue for the Repton exhibition Autumn 2018 ‘In the Enemy’s Quarters’: Humphry Repton in the West Midlands |
| 2019 | Woolhope Club | Grants for scanning the Transactions from 1890 to 2002 and additional volumes to be made available on the Club website. |