Adrian Williams
Adrian Williams is an actuary and management consultant whose professional life has been focused on the application of mathematics and statistics to the improvement of strategy and operations for...
View ArticleRay Ward
Ray Ward was born in Sheffield in 1947 and is retired after a career in libraries of many kinds in Sheffield, London, South Wales, Bristol, Leeds, Hastings, Brighton and, briefly, Saudi Arabia. He is a...
View ArticleThe Society’s name: The Queen’s English Society
'The King’s English’ or ‘The Queen’s English’ is a colloquial term that, in common parlance, denotes ‘standard’ or ‘correct’ English; its use is metaphorical, not signifying any literal proprietorship...
View ArticleMichael Gorman
After a degree in physics Michael made a career on the technical side of the computer industry. Within that career he had to write many documents, and to advise junior engineers on their documents....
View ArticleSusan (Kitt) McKenna
Susan McKenna has a background in teaching English and French, sales, marketing, business development and management. She was Sales & Marketing Director with prestigious companies supplying...
View ArticleDebbie le May
Debbie has been a freelance journalist for nearly twenty years and has edited Quest, the journal of the Queen’s English Society, for more than twelve years. Despite having an interest in politics, she...
View ArticleFacebook launch
In 2022, the Queen’s English Society celebrated its 50th anniversary and half a century of promoting clear and elegant expression of the English language. As we enter our sixth decade, we are...
View ArticlePeter Tompkins
Peter Tompkins was born in Liverpool in 1959 but has lived in the South-East since 1982, these days splitting his time between London and Cambridge and occasional trips to the Lake District. Peter is a...
View ArticleThe current programme
Thursday 23rd May, 2024, Zoom only. 7 p.m. ending by 8.30 p.m. Poetry? This will be a led discussion by members about what is or is not a poem, with examples. Letters in Quest suggest that members have...
View ArticleRESULTS OF OUR MARCH 2024 POETRY COMPETITION
JUDGE’S REPORT POETRY COMPETITION THEMED ‘RED’ There was a pleasingly high standard of entry this time with the theme of RED interpreted in fourteen ways including apples, lips, flags, ink, blood...
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