Records of the Round Table Club, Edinburgh
Scope and Contents
The records consist of a minute-book for the period 1868-1878, a minute-book covering 1878-1895 with photograph inserts, a notebook with poems dated 1870, an envelope containing correspondence and accounts, a bound photograph album with a few portraits of Round Table Club members, and a volume entitledAnnals of the Round Table Club. The volume was edited by J.G.M, and was printed for private use in 1908. It was no.27 of 35 copies printed.
Dates
- Creation: 1868-1908
Language of Materials
English.
Conditions Governing Access
Generally open for consultation to bona fide researchers, but please contact repository for details in advance.
Biographical / Historical
The Round Table Club, Edinburgh, arose out of the wish among rising medical graduates for occasional meetings "simply for the purpose of good fellowship". On 8 December 1868 a party of ten men deemed likely to be "suitable members" met at dinner at the invitation of Dr. Robert James Blair Cunynghame, St. Colme Street, Edinburgh. The diners were: Dr. Cunynghame, Professor Alexander Dickson, Dr. Archibald Dickson, Dr. John Chiene, Dr. Thomas Annandale, Dr. John Duncan, Dr. Thomas Fraser, Dr. Joseph Bell, Dr. Claud Muirhead, and Alexander Crum Brown. These would become the original members of the Round Table Club, and an invitation was also opened to Arthur Gamgee and William Rutherford. The first meeting of the Club was held at Meikle's Hotel, Register Street, Edinburgh.
Extent
4 volumes, 1 photograph album, 1 envelope papers.
Physical Location
Gen. 175-180
Other Finding Aids
Important finding aids generally are: the alphabetical Index to Manuscripts held at Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections and Archives, consisting of typed slips in sheaf binders and to which additions were made until 1987; and the Index to Accessions Since 1987.
Subject
- Cunynghame, Robert James Blair (Person)
- Title
- Records of the Round Table Club, Edinburgh
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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University of Edinburgh Main Library
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Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
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