Appendix one: public activities of William Tennent and Robert Tennent

William Tennent

Belfast Academical Institution (manager, 1810–14, 1816–17, 1827, 1829–32; visitor, 1821–22)

Belfast Academy (committee member, 1827–32)

Belfast Savings Bank (committee member, 1816; trustee, 1819)

Ballast Office (member, 1812–32)

Botanic Gardens (trustee, 1830–32)

Chamber of Commerce (member of council, 1803–19; vice president, 1823–28) Commercial Buildings (committee member, 1813–19)

Dispensary and Fever Hospital (committee member, 1813–19)

Lagan Navigation (committee member, 1812–15; director, 1816–19) Mechanics' Institute (trustee, 1826–32)

Police Commissioner (member, 1812–32)

Police Committee (member, 1811–12)

Society for Promoting Knowledge (committee member, 1808–10, 1812–19) Spring Water Committee (committee member, 1821; commissioner, 1822–27) White Linen Hall (committee member, 1810–16, 1818–19)

White Linen Hall News Room (committee member, 1816–18)

Robert Tennent

Belfast Academical Institution (manager, 1810–15 and 1823–37; visitor, 1816) Belfast Academy (committee member, 1825–37)

Belfast Charitable Society (committee member, 1810–19, 1821–37)

Board of Health/Officers of Health (com missioner, 1832–34; officer, 1835–37) Bible Society/Hibernian Bible Society (committee member, 1808–19) Commercial Buildings (committee member, 1813–19)

Dispensary and Fever Hospital (treasurer, 1811–18; committee member, 1819) House of Industry (committee member, 1810–19, 1822–37)

Irish Music Society (treasurer, 1809–13)

Lagan Navigation (director, 1818–19)

Pipe Water Commissioners/Spring Water Commissioner (commissioner, 1818–19, 1821–28, 1833–37)

Savings Bank (early supporter, c.1816)

Society for Promoting Knowledge (committee member, 1812–19; vice president, 1825–28; president, 1829, 1831–37)

Spring Water Committee (committee member, 1814–17)

Ulster Female Penitentiary (committee member, 1831)

Weekly Sunday School/Sunday and Lancastrian School (committee member, 1811–13, 1816–19; treasurer, 1814–15.