Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Pali Text Society was founded in 1881 by Thomas William Rhys Davids. He established the organization to foster and promote the study of Pali texts after studying the Sinhala language with Ceylon Monk Yatramulle Sri Dhammarama.
Carolina Augusta Foyley Rhys Davids served as president from 1922 through 1942 following her husband's death. She managed finances effectively during the Great Depression and published two editions of the Journal of the Pali Text Society while translating classic Pali texts including Apadana volumes released in 1925 and 1927.
The Pali Text Society inaugurated the Fragile Palm Leaves project in 1994 to catalogue and preserve Buddhist palm-leaf manuscripts from Southeast Asia. The initiative began scanning these artifacts electronically to make access possible without threatening preservation, and formalized as a nonprofit called the Fragile Palm Leaves Foundation in Thailand in 2001.
By 1922 when Thomas William Rhys Davids died the society had issued 64 separate texts in 94 volumes exceeding 26,000 pages. These publications included commentarial exegetical texts and histories alongside the Pali Canon as well as dictionaries concordances books for students and the Journal of the Pali Text Society.
Rupert Mark Lovell Gethin has served as president of the Pali Text Society since 2003 following Lance Selwyn Cousins who served until 2003. Previous leaders include Kenneth Roy Norman FBA who remained on council longest out of all members leading from 1981 to 1994 and Richard Francis Gombrich who took charge from 1994 to 2002.