Our Annual Dinner was held, as ever, on the first Monday in November and at the Carlton Club. Major Mark Edward M.F.H, Commanding Officer of the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery, spoke amusingly to “Surtees and the British Army” and the dinner was sold out within two weeks.
The Members lucky enough to get names down first were afforded a rare treat by antiquarian book collector, author and Life Member Colin Franklin on 20th April. The Society was welcomed into his home for a very fine lunch followed by a reprise of Colin’s speech to the Bodleian. Then members spent a magical hour…
On the 16th march the Society went North to hunt with the Percy and have our Goose and Dumpling Dinner at Chillingham Castle, by kind invitation of Sir Humphry Wakefield. We then visited the newly restored grave and had lunch the following day in Hamsterley Hall itself.
