Bannatyne Club
The Bannatyne Club, named in honour of George Bannatyne and his famous anthology of Scots literature the Bannatyne Manuscript, was a text publication society founded by Sir Walter Scott to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, poetry, or general literature. It printed 116 volumes in all. It was dissolved in 1861.
Members
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Founder members of February 7, 1823
- Sir Walter Scott
- Thomas Thomson
- Thomas Kinnear
- David Laing
- William Adam of Blair Adam
- Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet
- James Ballantyne
- William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne
- Robert Bell
- John Clerk, Lord Eldin
- Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn
- Archibald Constable
- David Constable
- Robert Dundas of Arniston
- Robert Graham of Balgowan
- Henry Jardine of Harwood
- Rev. John Lee
- James Maidment
- Gilbert Laing Meason
- John Murray, Lord Murray
- Robert Pitcairn
- Sir Samuel Shepherd
- James Skene of Rubislaw
- George Smythe
- Patrick Fraser Tytler (1823)
Further Members admitted November 25, 1823
- Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto
- George Chalmers
- William Blair of Avonton
- James T. Gibson-Craig
- Andrew Skene
- Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan
Later members
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- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1827)
- Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton (1828)
- Earl of Ashburnham
- John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford
- Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland
- Cosmo Innes
- Robert Pitcairn
Publications
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- Memoirs touching the Revolution in Scotland, originally published 1714, Colin Lindsay, 3rd Earl of Balcarres. (1841)
- The Bannatyne Miscellany; Containing Original Papers and Tracts Chiefly Relating to the History and Literature of Scotland [Published in Edinburgh], (1827).
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wood, James, ed. (1907). "article name needed". The Nuttall Encyclopædia. London and New York: Frederick Warne.
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