Transcribed from the 1852 W. Birch edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Chelsea and Kensington Libraries for allowing their copy to be used for this transcription. THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Kensington PAROCHIAL INSTITUTE. * * * * * 1852. * * * * * President. THE VENERABLE ARCHDEACON SINCLAIR, VICAR OF KENSINGTON. Treasurer—MR. HAWKES. Hon. Sec.—REV. S. PRICE DAVIES, M.A. Council. MR. BELLWORTHY. MR. WILLIAM HUNT. — BIRD. — MERRIMAN. — CLARKE. — SMITH. — CURTIS. — STANHAM. ADMIRAL DEACON. — TASSIE. MR. EALES. — WADDILOVE. REV. J. H. HOWLETT. — WARNER. MR. J. HUNT. * * * * * KENSINGTON: PRINTED BY W. BIRCH, HIGH STREET. 1853. * * * * * *** SUBSCRIPTIONS _and_ DONATIONS _to the Kensington Parochial Institute will be received and acknowledged by the Treasurer_, MR. HAWKES, _High-street_, _and the_ REV. S. PRICE DAVIES, _Hon. Sec._, 17, _Lower Phillimore-place_. THIRD ANNUAL REPORT. THE Council of the Parochial Institute have pleasure in submitting for the adoption of its members, and the consideration of the inhabitants of Kensington, their Third Annual Report. Having upon former occasions detailed the circumstances of its formation, and demonstrated upon solid grounds the expediency of meeting the increasing intellectual requirements of the community, by the establishment, throughout the country, of societies for the diffusion of a healthy literature, and a cultivated taste, it will be their present purpose to recount their own success in stimulating these objects, while suggesting to their fellow residents the privilege, policy, and duty of enabling them to develop the existing agencies of mental recreation, by liberally conceding to their claims an united and comprehensive support.