The First Hundred Years

Parliament Court Chapel, 1801

Elhanan Winchester (1751 – 1797)

William Vidler (1758 – 1816)

William Johnson Fox M. P. (1786 – 1864)

Richard Carlile (1790 – 1843)

Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809)

The Republican (1819 – 1826)

Richard Carlile – Prison Correspondence, 1819.

South Place Chapel, Finsbury (1823 – 1926)

South Place Chapel, Finsbury (interior), 1927.

South Place Chapel, Finsbury (reverse interior), 1927.

Eliza Flower (1803 – 1846)

Sarah Flower Adams (1805 – 1848)

Original manuscript of Nearer, My God, To Thee

Henry Jerson (1820 – 1871)

Henry Newth Barnett (1829 – 1872)

Moncure Conway (1832 – 1907)

Ellen Dana Conway (1833 – 1897)

Stanton Coit (1857 – 1944)

River Plate House plaque

Building Conway Hall

Red Lion Square, in 1800

Pre 1929, a school on site of Conway Hall

Wallis Mansford (1867 – 1948)

Frederick Herbert Mansford (1871 – 1946)

Conway Hall drawing, assumed to be drawn by F. Herbert Mansford RIBA, c. 1926

Main Hall and the proscenium panels, September 1929

Conway Hall interiors, September 1929.

Bas-Relief Plaque of man woman and child

Bas-Relief showing man, woman and child with mirror

Conrad W. Thies (1849 – 1931)

Mansford’s Ground Floor Plan of Conway Hall

Herbert Mansford plaque, 1929

‘An Impression of Conway Hall’ by Sibella Bonham-Carter (1899 – 2005) Watercolour, 1930

Invitation to the opening of Conway Hall, 1929.

Appointed Lecturers

Appointed Lecturers

Herbert Burrows (1845 – 1922)

John A Hobson (1858 – 1940)

J. M. Robertson M.P. (1856 – 1933)

Joseph McCabe (1867 – 1955)

Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe (1868 – 1958)

Dr Cecil Delisle Burns (1879 – 1942)

Dr Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (1891 – 1953)

Professor George Williams Keeton (1902 – 1989)

Archibald Robertson (1886 – 1961)

Professor William Elgin Swinton (1900 – 1994)

Harold J. Blackham (1903 – 2009)

Richard Clements (1891 – 1988)

Dr John Lewis (1889 – 1976)

Lord Reginald William Sorenson (1891 – 1971)

Lord Fenner Brockway (1888 – 1988)

Thomas Francis Evans (1919 – 2008)

Peter Cronin (1923 – 1993)

Hector Hawton (1901 – 1976)

William H. Liddell (1937 – )

Nicolas Walter (1934 – 2000)

Dr Harry Stopes-Roe (1924 – 2014)

Barbara Smoker (1923 – )

Journals & Editors

The South Place Magazine (1895 – 1909)

The South Place Magazine (1895 – 1909)

Ernest A. Carr (1867 – 1951)

The Monthly List (1909 – 1941)

Charles Joseph Pollard (1865 – 1946)

The Monthly Record (1942 – 1965)

Francis Gerald Gould (1875 – 1947)

Charles James Turnadge (1892 – 1961)

George C. Dowman (1894 – 1974)

The Ethical Record (1965 – present day)

Barbara Smoker (1923 – )

Eric Willoughby

Peter Hunot (1914 – 1989)

Tom Rubens

David Murray

Norman Bacrac

Susan Curtis-Kojakovic

Sunday Concerts

Programme of first Sunday Concert, 20th February 1887

Programme of first Sunday Concert, 20th February 1887

Sunday Concerts plaque

Plaque in Conway Hall to commemorate Alfred J. Clements

John Saunders (1866 – 1919)

Richard Henry Walthew (1872 – 1951)

Frank Andrade Hawkins (1857 – 1929)

Alfred Joseph Clements (1887 – 1937)

Dora Mary Clements (1865 – 1954)

George Hutchinson (1906 – 2000)

Martin Lince (1914 – 2012)

Frank Ville Hawkins (1929 – 1988)

Lionel Elton (1931 – )

Peter Fribbins

Simon Callaghan (c) B. Ealovega,

The Great & The Good

George Jacob Holyoake (1817 – 1906)

Leslie Stephen (1832 – 1904)

William Morris ( 1834 – 1896)

Ebenezer Howard (1850 – 1928)

Sidney Webb (1859 – 1947)

H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)

Marie Stopes (1880 – 1958)

Marion Philips (1881 – 1932)

Sir Gerald Barry (1898 – 1968)

Jazz at Conway Hall

Josh White (1914 – 1969)

Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983)

Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983) and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott (1931 – )

Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983) and Otis Spann (1930 – 1970)

Ottilie Patterson (1932 – 2011) and Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983)

Muddy Waters (1913 – 1983) and Otis Spann (1930 – 1970)

Muddy Water (1913 – 1983)

Pete Seeger (1919 – 2014)

Conway Memorial Lecturers

John Russell (1856 -1937) gave the 1910 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856 – 1941) gave the 1911 Conway Memorial Lecture.

William Archer (1856 – 1924) gave the 1912 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Norman Angell (1872 – 1967) gave the 1913 Conway Memorial Lecture.

John MacKinnon Robertson M.P. (1856 – 1933) gave the 1914 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Gilbert Murray (1866 – 1957) gave the 1915 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Edward Clodd (1840 – 1930) gave the 1916 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) gave the 1917 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Henry Johnston (1858 – 1927) gave the 1918 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 – 1928) gave the 1919 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Ivor Lloyd Tuckett (1873 – 1942) gave the 1920 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Alfred Cort Haddon (1855 – 1940) gave the 1921 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Earl Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970) gave the 1922 Conway Memorial Lecture.

John Drinkwater (1882 – 1937) gave the 1923 Conway Memorial Lecture

Professor Graham Wallas (1858 – 1932) gave the 1924 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Arthur Keith (1866 – 1955) gave the 1925 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Leonard Huxley (1860 – 1933) gave the 1926 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871 – 1937) gave the 1927 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor John Bourdon Sanderson Haldane (1892 – 1964) gave the 1928 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Laurence Housman (1865 – 1959) gave the 1929 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Julian Huxley (1887 – 1975) gave the 1930 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor John Walter Gregory (1864 – 1932) gave the 1931 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Harold Joseph Laski (1893 – 1950) gave the 1932 Conway Memorial Lecture.

John Atkinson Hobson (1858 – 1940) gave the 1933 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Hyman Levy (1889 – 1975) gave the 1934 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr George Peabody Gooch M.P. (1873 – 1968) gave the 1935 Conway Memorial Lecture. Image by Walter Stoneman, 1930. Copyright: the National Portrait Gallery

Professor Lancelot Hogben (1895 – 1975) gave the 1936 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Stanton Coit (1857 – 1944) gave the 1937 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Lord Thomas Jeeves Horder (1871 – 1955) gave the 1938 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Marjorie Bowen (1885 – 1952) gave the 1939 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Lord Henry Snell (1865 – 1944) gave the 1940 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor John Carl Flugel (1884 – 1955) gave the 1941 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Edward John Thompson (1886 – 1946) gave the 1942 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Richard Gregory (1864 – 1952) gave the 1943 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Gilbert Murray (1866 – 1957) gave the 1944 Conway Memorial Lecture.

(Basil) Kingsley Martin (1897 – 1969) gave the 1945 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe (1868 – 1958) gave the 1946 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Joseph Needham (1900 – 1995) gave the 1947 Conway Memorial Lecture. Photographed by Ramsey & Muspratt, 1938. Copyright- the National Portrait Gallery.

Professor Cyril Dean Darlington (1903 – 1981) gave the 1948 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Lancelot Hogben (1895 – 1975) gave the 1949 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Benjamin Farrington (1891 – 1974) gave the 1950 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Herbert Read (1893 – 1968) gave the 1951 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Morris Ginsberg (1889 – 1970) gave the 1952 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Lord Robert Chorley (1895 – 1978) gave the 1953 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Jacob Bronowski (1908 – 1974) gave the 1954 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Baron John Boyd Orr (1880 – 1971) gave the 1955 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 – 2001) gave the 1956 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Margaret Kennedy Knight (1903 – 1983) gave the 1957 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Baroness Mary Stocks (1891 – 1975) gave the 1960 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Marghanita Laski (1915 – 1988) gave the 1967 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr James Hemming (1909 – 2007) gave the 1969 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Leopold Kohr (1909 – 1994) gave the 1970 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Laurens Jan van der Post (1906 – 1996) gave the 1971 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Edmund Ronald Leach (1910 – 1989) gave the 1973 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Sir Jonathan Miller (1934 – ) gave the 1973 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Ernest André Gellner (1925 – 1995) gave the 1974 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Baron Leslie George Scarman (1911 – 2004) gave the 1976 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor John D’Entremont gave the 1977 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams (1929 – 2003) gave the 1982 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Alan Howard Cottrell (1919 – 2012) gave the 1984 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Harold John Blackham (1903 – 2009) gave the 1985 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Baron Fenner Brockway (1888 – 1988) gave the 1986 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Benny Green (1927 – 1998) gave the 1987 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Alfred Jules Ayer (1910 – 1989) gave the 1988 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Christopher Hill (1912 – 2003) gave the 1989 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Alex Comfort (1920 – 2000) gave the 1990 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Hermann Bondi (1919 – 2005) gave the 1992 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Juliet Mitchell (1940 – ) gave the 1993 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Ted Honderich (1933 – ) gave the 1994 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr David Starkey (1945 – ) gave the 1995 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Dr Bryan Ronald Wilson (1926 – 2004) gave the 1996 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Colin Blakemore (1944 – ) gave the 1998 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Frederick Rosen gave the 1999 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Bernard Crick (1929 – 2008) gave the 2000 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Anthony Clifford Grayling (1949 – ) gave the 2001 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Peter Atkins (1940 – ) gave the 2003 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Steve Jones (1944 – ) gave the 2006 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor John Hedley Brooke (1944 – ) gave the 2009 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Jonathan Glover (1941 – ) gave the 2010 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Philip Schofield gave the 2011 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Sir Roger Penrose (1931 – ) gave the 2012 Conway Memorial Lecture.

Professor Lisa Jardine (1944 – ) gave the 2014 Conway Memorial Lecture.