This caused me a chuckle when I searched for J H Prynne on the Nexis Newspaper database.
It is the earliest article that Nexis has mentioning Prynne. I quote in full:
The Times (London)
October 17 1985, Thursday
Dinners
SECTION: Issue 62271.
LENGTH: 434 words
Basketmakers' Company
The Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, the Sherriffs and their ladies, was a guest speaker at a dinner given by the Basketmakers' Company at the Mansion House last night. The Prime Warden, accompanied by Lady Harris, presided. Mr Deputy Bernard L Morgan, Judge Sir James Miskin, QC, Recorder of London, and Judge Thomas Pigot, QC, the Common Serjeant, also spoke.
Cranleigh School
The Headmaster of Cranleigh School, Mr Anthony Hart, was in the chair at the Cranleigh dinner held at the school on Saturday. Mr Barney Hayhoe, MP, responded on behalf of the guests. Other guests were:
Mr E Adams, Dr C D Addis-Jones, the Right Rev Michael Adie, Mr I M Argyle, Dr P W Atkins, Mr P J Attenborough, Sir Peter Baldwin, Lord Bancroft, Dr C E Baron, Professor J E Bately, the Hon M J Beloff, Sir John Biggs-Davison, MP, Mr W S Blackshaw, Mr J N H Blelloch, Mr D Briffett, Dr C L Brundin, Sir Gordon Brunton, Mr I C R Byatt, Mr J Cartwright, Dr J B Cook, Mr and Mrs J Cooper, Mr D W M Couper, Sir Hugh and Lady Cubitt, Mr R F Davie, Mr A A Dove, Major D S Elliott, Mr D A Emms, Mr J S Ferrier, Mr R D Finlay, Mr C W France, Mr C A Ganderton, Mrs J Gardam, Mr M Greenwood, Mr D H Griffiths, Mr N R Hale, Lord Hamilton of Dalzell, Mr R M Hastie-Smith, Mrs B J Hayhoe, Mr R J Haynes, Lady Heald, Dr E Higginbottom, Mr W Holt, Mr D Howell MP, Mr D N Ing, Mr R V Jackson MP, Dr L P Johnson, Mr M M Jones, Dr J S Kelly, Miss A S Kennedy, Mr P H Konig, Mr C A Lamaison, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Leach, Dr P G Le Huray, Dr P A Lineham, Mr W B J Llewellyn, Mr H
McGregor, Mr P McKenna, Miss Virginia McKenna, Mr M A McLeod, Mr A McLintock, Mr D A R May, Dr J H Mellanby, Miss A Mueller, Mrs K Newnham, Sir David Nicolson, Mr K B Ohlson, Chief Adekunle Ojora, Chief Olajide Oyewole, Dr J M Peach, Mr J E Pestell, Mrs O M Peto, Mr H Pigott, Mr D J Poole, Dr G G Pope, Mr S J Preston, Mr J H Prynne, Mr A J Pull Major-General M F Reynolds, Mr J D Rimington, Major Lord Robertson of Oakridge, Mr C F Robinson, Mr D B Rogers, Dr M J Russell, Mr D A Rutherford, Mr M Rutherford, Ms D Seammen, Mr C Sharman, Mrs Margaret Sharp, Commodore R G Sharpe, RN, Mr S P Sleeman, Mr W G M Smythe, Mr H A Sorrell, Mr P J Spreadbury, Admiral Sir Peter Stanford, Sir Andrew Stark, Admiral Sir William Staveley, Mr D M Stewart, Mrs A Stocker, Mr D J Trevelyan, Mr W G C Upcott, Mr M van Hasselt, Sir Peter Wakefield . Captain B O Walpole, Mr G M Walpole, Viscount Watkinson, Mr T A Webb, Mr D G Westcott, Mr D F Wheatley, the Rev H A Williams and
Vice-Admiral Sir John Woodward.
I wonder if he felt out of place?
--- On Thu, 12/1/12, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Chris Hamilton Emery on the elusive nature of a “poetry establishment”
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, 12 January, 2012, 15:15
> That's of course way too easy. Jeremy
> Prynne gets lots of goodies, but nobody thinks he's
> mainstream (a better term than establishment). There really
> is an aesthetic boundary, fuzzy as it is, as all boundaries
> are, and one side holds most of the power.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> >From: David Lace <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Jan 12, 2012 10:08 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Chris Hamilton Emery on the elusive nature of
> a “poetry establishment”
> >
> >From the Poets on Fire forum:
> >
> >"People write about this bulletin board that it
> contains the establishment. The term is a moveable feast,
> isn't it? Anyone managing to earn or grab some resources is
> immediately considered part of the establishment, 'specially
> if we haven't got a slice. It's mainly blokes who get worked
> up about this. I can be sat with the avant-garde hearing the
> term used about the Poetry Society, or hear it used in the
> Poetry Society about DCMS or ACE. Or hear someone say that
> the establishment is a cluster of poetry editors, but the
> cluster changes depending on who's talking. Some feel it's
> the Festival Directors. The journalists. The odd
> millionaire. Don. Simon. Sean. Fiona. George. Everyone has a
> theory, different people populate it. No one I've sat with
> has ever said, "Ah, yes. That's me. I'll be that, the
> Establishment. How do you do" It's always someone else.
> Somewhere else. With another in control of it. And we're
> outside of it, the bastards. It's one of the tiny pleasures
> of our industry to speculate on mafia-shagging, fixing and
> power. If there is an establishment, I can tell you one
> thing for sure, they're pretty shit at running things for
> us.
> >
> >However, the real establishment (as we all know) is
> readership. Anyone working outside of that is pretty much
> excluded from things. That's about 99% of us to some degree
> at some point, and eventually forever. All is vanity ...
> meanwhile publish me, you swine!"
> >
> >
> >http://z11.invisionfree.com/Poets_On_Fire/index.php?act=ST&f=15&t=1455&view=getnewpost
>
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