In the first edition of Terry Dukes' book 'No-Nonsense Handreading' (1978), we find the following disclosure on one of the introductory pages. It has been noted that, perhaps unsurprisingly, this paragraph was re-written for later editions of this same book.

Later in this same work (p69), Terry Dukes provides us with information about who was involved in the creation of this society and when it was that the founding of this 'second' Cheirological Society actually took place.

The first edition of Terry Dukes' No-Nonsense Handreading was privately printed up by him as an A4 booklet in 1978 and it is notable that the introductory page describing Dukes as the founder of the modern Cheirological Society was later omitted from reprintings of this text. Although Chinese Hand Analysis was published by Dukes in 1980, many of the contents of that original form of the text were changed before it was published by Weiser & Co for the first time in 1987. With the advent of the 'official' versions of events as described in CHA, evidently it was necessary to remove the introductory page from No-Nonsense Handreading. However, the list of founding members and executive remains the same throughout that time.

Despite publicly telling the world that Katherine St Hill founded the Cheirological Society in 1889, he still persists in telling the blatant lie that he was the founding president of the group in 1975/76! Some correspondence from Terence Dukes is very illuminating in this regard. He writes:

Here, he clearly confesses to having started up the Cheirological Society. From the absence of any mention of this in previous correspondence, it can be assumed that it was during the latter half of 1976 that the group was begun. Interestingly, he refers to it as the LCS (London Cheirological Society) which was, actually, the full title of the society founded by K St Hill. He even initially copied the name, though this seems to rapidly have been dropped. However, by 1979 he writes:

Here again we see the great knowledge of the man who inherited the mantle of a society he is not clear about when it was actually founded. But then he does admit to founding the Chinese section of the society in 1975... but then again that wasn't founded by him either! How can he found something that had already been founded?! Or is it, as headed notepaper used by Dukes at that time states, that the society was only 'Refounded' in 1975 by Terry Dukes?!

As to the matter of being the 'head' of the society, for all practical intents and purposes Dukes was both Head Tutor and President right from its founding in 1975. Ursula Jaquin was asked if she would be Honorary President in 1976 to lend her name to the society. However, she never attended any society meetings, she never met Terry Dukes and only ever spoke to him once (in January 1999 just before resigning as the Honorary President). In fact, she has no knowledge of handreading whatsoever and has never studied it (though she was a practising astrologer) and only lent her name to the society in order to honour the name of her deceased husband who had only recently died in 1974. Apart from giving Dukes the kudos of having the Jaquin name associated with the Cheirological Society, Ursula Jaquin played absolutely no role within it whatsoever. In later years, she frequently expressed regret that she had ever conceded to allowing Noel's name to be used in this way in the first place. Since she, and almost all of the other members, left the society in January 1999, she has dissociated herself from Terry Dukes completely and has requested that her name be removed from all Cheirological Society newsheets, stationary and literature. She wants absolutely nothing further to do with him.