A history of the Bath Circle of Magicians<\/p>\n
The Bath Circle of Magicians was formed in 1945 and began meeting from the 1945 – 46 season. The first President was\u00a0Evelyn Francis Edward Seymour the 17th Duke of Somerset DSO, OBE, JP, DL, MIMC who from 1935 – 1954 was also President of The Magic Circle in London. Born in 1882, he joined The Magic Circle in 1907. After attending the Royal Military College Sandhurst he saw service in the South African War and the First World War when he was mentioned in dispatches.<\/p>\n
To be continued . . .<\/em><\/p>\n The history of the Bath Circle is currently being researched and written by senior members of the Bath Circle and will appear here soon . . .<\/em><\/p>\n PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE BATH CIRCLE OF MAGICIANS.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n 1946 – 1954\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 HIS GRACE THE DUKE of SOMERSET<\/strong><\/p>\n 1954 – 1968\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 T.B. DONOVAN<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1968 – 1969\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0S.A. BUSSELL<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1969 – 1972\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0B.J. TRANAH<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1972 – 1975\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0G.V. PHILLIPS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1975 – 1983\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D.R. ELLIOTT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1983 – 1986\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0J.W. ISAACS <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1986 – 1989\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D. MANSI<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1989 – 1990\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0S.R. LANE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1990 – 1993\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D.R. ELLIOTT\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1993 – 1994\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0T. GRIFFITH<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1994 – 1995\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0S.R. LANE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1995 – 1996\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0R.D. ROSE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1996 – 1999\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D.A. PAYNE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>1999 – 2000\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D.R. ELLIOTT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2000 – 2002\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A. FARRELL<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2002 – 2004\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0A. BURHOLT<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2004 – 2007\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D. ALEXANDER<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2007 – 2010\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D. MANSI<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2010 – 2012\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0S.R. LANE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2012 – 2014\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0J.W. ISAACS<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2014 – 2015\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0D. MUSTOE<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>2015 – 2018\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0G. MAIDMENT\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 2018 –\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0R. NICOT\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A history of the Bath Circle of Magicians The Bath Circle of Magicians was formed in 1945 and began meeting from the 1945 – 46 season. The first President was\u00a0Evelyn Francis Edward Seymour the 17th Duke of Somerset DSO, OBE, JP, DL, MIMC who from 1935 – 1954 was also President of The Magic Circle Read more about HISTORY<\/span>[…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9rR4p-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bathcircleofmagicians.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}