{"id":1202,"date":"2014-03-18T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2023-05-02T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T11:04:06","slug":"the-royal-society-of-st-george","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/the-royal-society-of-st-george\/","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Society of St George"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mr Borrow-Longain has been honoured to have been made a member of The Royal Society of St George.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Royal Society of St George was founded in 1894 with the noble object of promoting &#8220;Englishness&#8221; and the English way of life. Howard Ruff was the founder in 1894 and the first Honorary Secretary of the Royal Society of St George. In 1900 he gave up farming to devote his time exclusively to the society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The society quickly attracted the support of many distinguished public figures in England and throughout the then British Empire. Its first Royal Patron was Queen Victoria; and the society has enjoyed the Patronage of every reigning monarch from that day to this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1963 the Queen granted the society its own Royal Charter. The society was further granted Arms in 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LOGO-13.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LOGO-13.png 330w, https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/LOGO-13-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Borrow-Longain has been honoured to have been made a member of The Royal Society of St George.&nbsp; The Royal Society of St George was founded in 1894 with the noble object of promoting &#8220;Englishness&#8221; and the English way of life. Howard Ruff was the founder in 1894 and the first Honorary Secretary of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1204,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.farnes.net\/paul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}