Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE

On this day...

24 July 1802     Alexandre Dumas père, playwright and novelist, was born in Villes-Cotterêts, France

25 July 1834     The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge died at age 61, though in Highgate, not Porlock

26 July 1894     The writer Aldous Huxley was born in Godalming, Surrey. He is probably best known for his novel Brave New World