The Iran Society

History

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Further meetings of this group in December 1935 and February 1936 at the Iranian Legation led to the adoption of the Society's Rules under three headings, Objects, Activities and Constitution, in the following terms:

Objects

  1. To bring together those who are interested in Iran, her culture and art, past and present, and thereby to help the peoples of Great Britain and Iran to understand each other.
  2. To foster intercourse between the two countries and to establish and maintain close relations with institutions in Iran and elsewhere working in the same fields, such as Andjomane Athare Melli, Andjomane Adabi, Société des Etudes Iraniennes, American Institute of Persian Art and Archæology.
  3. To help Iranian Students in England to study Iranian culture, according to European methods.
  4. To give members of the Iranian colony in England opportunities to meet one another and their English friends at social and intellectual gatherings.
  5. Political problems will not fall within the province of the Iran Society.

Activities

  1. To carry out its purpose the Iran Society will organize lectures and visits to public and private collections, and, in general, take any opportunity of making known the art and culture of Iran to the English public.
  2. It is hoped that means will be found of publishing, from time to time, some of the lectures delivered before the Society, for distribution among members of that Society and for sale.
  3. The Society will do all in its power to facilitate travel in Iran by its members.
  4. The Society will arrange social gatherings for its members.

Constitution

  1. Membership of the Society shall be by election at meetings of the Council. The annual subscription shall be £1. Life membership may be obtained by payment of £10. Joint membership of husbands and wives may be obtained by annual payment of £1 10s.
  2. The officers of the Society shall consist of (a) a President, (b) an Honorary President, (c) three Vice-Presidents, (d) an Honorary Treasurer, (e) two Honorary Secretaries.
  3. There shall be a Council consisting of the Officers and nine other members.
  4. The Representative of Iran shall be ex officio Honorary President.
  5. The Chairman shall be elected annually by the Council.
  6. The Treasurer and Secretaries shall be elected at a General Meeting, on the nomination of the Council.
  7. Of the nine members of the Council, three shall retire annually, but shall be eligible for re-election.
  8. Nominations to the vacancies thus caused shall be made by the Council, and the names submitted to the Annual General Meeting.
  9. Four regular Meetings of the Council shall be held each year for the purpose of arranging programmes.
  10. Special Meetings of the Council may be summoned at the discretion of the Chairman.
  11. Three members of the Council shall constitute a quorum.
  12. The accounts shall be audited annually by an auditor nominated by the Council.
  13. The address of the Society will be, until further notice, 50, Kensington Court, W83.

Notes

3 By the end of 1936 the Society's address was 26, Princes Gate, London SW7, viz. the Iranian Legation

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