By kind permission of the Duchy of Cornwall, we held our AGM at 10 Buckingham Gate, in the Council Chambers Lord Charles Cecil and the Chairman spoke on our much missed Honorary Secretary, Jeremy Lewis.After the AGM we took taxis to Hyde Park Barracks, Knightsbridge. There, by kind permission of Lt Col James Gaselee LG,…
The 2017 Northern Trip was in Northumberland, on 24th, 25th and 26th February, where we stayed at Chillingham Castle by kind permission of Sir Humphry Wakefield. We hunted with the Percy and had the Goose & Dumpling Dinner where Edward “Hammer of the Scots” and his men gathered their strength before the battle of Falkirk,…
The Carlton Club, London. Click here for tickets.
“The latest book from one of our South African members, Williams Dicey of Ceres, is now available.” click here to buy Our members write on many subjects, and this is a collection of essays about modern South Africa. It is in a different class to William Dicey’s (already good) first novel, Borderline.…
As always, our Annual Dinner will be on the first Monday in November. This year back at the Carlton Club in London. Baroness Butler-Sloss of Marsh Green has attended our dinners for many years and her husband Joseph is on the Executive Committee. She was the UK’s most senior judge and since retiring sits on…
The 2015 Annual General Meeting was held by kind permission of the Duchy of Cornwall, at 10 Buckingham Gate, London. Moray Scott-Dalgleish spoke fascinatingly on his recently completed ‘Rolleston Collection’, and Lord Charles Cecil and Sir Humphry Wakefield were unanimously re-elected to the Committee.
The Chairman spoke on behalf of the Society at the 80th Anniversary of the ‘Two Bridges’ Hunt Club dinner on Dartmoor. This Club, brought into life at the invitation of the hunting men of the Royal Navy, celebrates the four packs there. By immemorial tradition they open their country to one another the following day.…
‘“Clear the way then…” Surtees Crossing the Country’ Lecture to The R.S. Surtees Society Northern Tour The Bowes Museum 16th March 2014 In his speech at the Society’s Goose and Dumpling Dinner last night, Alistair Martin, our speaker, quoted the key phrase from Surtees’s Hawbuck Grange: “There are two things in this world that there…
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…
