GENERAL HENRY M. ROBERT, who gave his name to the book that has brought order to millions of meetings, was sparely built but gregarious and determined U.S. Army Engineer officer of Huguenot decent born May 2, 1837. Led to study parliamentary law over a number of years by experiences in civil and church organizations, he published the first edition of Robert's Rules of Order on February 19, 1876. After his retirement from the Army in 1901, he practiced consulting engineering and devoted the last decade of his life to writing on parliamentary procedure. He died on May 11, 1923.The Council of the Robert's Rules Association has, by contract, selected an authorship team. For the 1970 Seventh Edition Sarah Corbin Robert, then the preeminent parliamentarian in the United States, was the author with the assistance of Henry M. Robert III and William J. Evans. After the death of Mrs. Robert they completed work on the seventh edition and, later, the eighth edition. For the ninth edition Daniel H. Honemann was added to the team. Thomas J. Balch was added to assist in the authoring of the Tenth edition.SARAH CORBIN ROBERT was the daughter-in-law of the original author and the Trustee of Robert's Rules of Order Revised, and headed the authorship team which produced the most extensive general revision of the work, the 1970 edition of Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised.
HENRY M. ROBERT III, grandson of General Robert, began his association with Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised when he assisted his mother, Sarah Corbin Robert, in writing the 1970 edition. He holds degrees in the Great Books Program of St. John's College in Annapolis and in Physics (Laval University, Quebec). He has served as Parliamentarian of the National Association of Parliamentarians.
WILLIAM J. EVANS, a former partner in the Baltimore law firm of Miles & Stockbridge, was a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and earned his law degree at the University of Maryland School of Law. He was President of the National Association of Parliamentarians from 1979 to 1981 and also served as its Parliamentarian. He participated in writing the 1970 and each succeeding edition.
DANIEL H. HONEMANN is a Maryland attorney, of counsel to the Baltimore law firm of Whiteford, Taylor & Preston, LLP. He is a graduate of Western Maryland College and received his law degree from the University of Maryland School of Law. Mr. Honemann also assisted in the writing of the ninth edition.
THOMAS J. BALCH, 1999-2001 Parliamentarian for the National Association of Parliamentarians, is a Washington, D.C.-based lobbyist and legislative analyst. An attorney licensed to practice in Illinois, he is a graduate of Williams College and New York University School of Law.
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