AGENDA FOR 2017 AGM Society Stock Website Improvements Annual Dinner The Northern Trip to Chillingham Executive Committee Elections The Surteesian Society Membership Society Finances Mr Facey Romford’s Hounds & ‘Hym’ republication Honorary Secretary AOB The following two Executive Committee members are eligible for re-election, having served three consecrutive years. If you would like to vote…
By kind permission of the Duchy of Cornwall, our AGM will again be held at 10 Buckingham Gate, in the Council Chambers from 2.00pm on Friday 19th May 2017. 2.00pm : Welcome and glass of sherry. 2.05pm : Lord Charles Cecil and the Chairman speak on our much missed Honorary Secretary, Jeremy Lewis. Prevented from speaking last…
The 2017 Northern Trip will be to Northumberland, on 24th, 25th and 26th February, where we will stay at Chillingham Castle by kind permission of Sir Humphry Wakefield. We will hunt with the Percy and have the Goose & Dumpling Dinner where Edward “Hammer of the Scots” and his men gathered their strength before the…
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.…
The 2016 Annual General Meeting is held by kind permission of the Duchy of Cornwall, at 10 Buckingham Gate, London on the 27th of May. Tickets can be purchased here.
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.
Master, Ladies and Gentlemen I am delighted to be here tonight, because I love Surtees. I have been delighted to be a member of the Society almost since it was founded (in this part of the country) over 30 years ago. I congratulate and thank all those involved with its foundation and flourishing over that…
At the Cavalry and Guards Club the Rt Hon David Heathcoat Amory – a lifelong foxhunter from a great hunting family – spoke to the Society’s Annual Dinner. Here is the speech he gave.. R.S.Surtees – an appreciation on the 150th anniversary of his death I’m here because, like Jorrocks, I believe that, ‘all…
