The Bannatyne Club, named in honour of

George Bannatyne George Bannatyne (1545–1608), a native of Angus, Scotland, was an Edinburgh merchant and burgess (title), burgess. He was the seventh of twenty-three children, including Catherine Bannatyne, born of James Bannatyne of Kirktown of Newtyle in Fo ...

and his famous anthology of Scots literature the

Bannatyne Manuscript The Bannatyne Manuscript is an anthology of literature compiled in Scotland in the sixteenth century. It is an important source for the Scots poetry of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The manuscript contains texts of the poems of the gr ...

, was a

text publication society A text publication society is a learned society which publishes (either as its sole function, or as a principal function) scholarly editions of old works of historical or literary interest, or archival documents. In addition to full texts, a text p ...

founded by

Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels '' Ivanhoe'', '' Rob Roy' ...

to print rare works of Scottish interest, whether in history, poetry, or general literature. The club was established in 1823 and printed 116 volumes before being dissolved in 1861.

Membership

Membership in the Bannatyne Club was much more diverse than that found in more elite clubs such as the

Roxburghe Club The Roxburghe Club is a bibliophilic and publishing society based in the United Kingdom. Origins The spur to the Club's foundation was the sale of the enormous library of the Duke of Roxburghe (who had died in 1804), which took place over 46 days ...

, including members from the publishing and printing trades in addition to lawyers. While the club was still elite, contributions by amateurs was considered valuable. This made the Bannaytne club a transitional organization between the elitism of previous clubs and the open policy of its successors. Like many Gentlemen's club's of the 18th and 19th centuries, the Bannatyne Club allowed members engage in homosocial relations and escape from constrictions associated with class, gender, and race. For its members, the club served to emphasize Scotland's distinct identity by publishing literary and historical texts. Between 1823 and 1827, membership expanded rapidly, increasing from thirty-one to one hundred members. Members were required to contribute five guineas each year as a membership fee.

Members

Founder members of February 7, 1823

Thomas Thomson Thomas Thomson may refer to: * Tom Thomson (1877–1917), Canadian painter * Thomas Thomson (apothecary) (died 1572), Scottish apothecary * Thomas Thomson (advocate) (1768–1852), Scottish lawyer * Thomas Thomson (botanist) (1817–1878), Scottis ...

Thomas Kinnear :not to be confused with Grace Marks' employer who died in 1843 Thomas Kinnear FRSE (1796–1830) was a Scottish banker and Director of T. Kinnear & Sons. He was also a Director of the Bank of Scotland. Life He was born on 11 January 1796. ...

* David Laing *

William Adam of Blair Adam The Right Hon. William Adam of Blair Adam (2 August 175117 February 1839) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, politician and judge. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland (1802–1805) and as Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court (181 ...

Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet Sir William Arbuthnot, 1st Baronet of Edinburgh FRSE (24 December 1766 – 18 September 1829) was a Scottish landowner and politician. He served as Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Edinburgh. Life William was the s ...

James Ballantyne James Ballantyne (15 January 1772 – 26 January 1833) was a Scottish solicitor, editor and publisher who worked for his friend Sir Walter Scott. His brother John Ballantyne (1774–1821) was also with the publishing firm, which is noted fo ...

William Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne Sir William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne FRSE (26 January 1743 – 30 November 1833) was a distinguished Scottish advocate, judge, antiquarian and historian. Life The son of Mr. Roderick Macleod WS and Isabel Bannantyne, daughter of ...

* Robert Bell *

John Clerk, Lord Eldin John Clerk, Lord Eldin FRSE FSA (1757– 30 May1832) was a Scottish judge based in Edinburgh. Life He was the eldest son of Susannah Adam, the sister of John Adam and Robert Adam, and John Clerk of Eldin. He was born in April 1757 in Edinburgh ...

Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn Henry Thomas Cockburn of Bonaly, Lord Cockburn ( ; Cockpen, Midlothian, 26 October 1779 – Bonaly, Midlothian, 26 April/18 July 1854) was a Scottish lawyer, judge and literary figure. He served as Solicitor General for Scotland between 1830 and ...

Archibald Constable Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer. Life Constable was born at Carnbee, Fife, son of the land steward to the Earl of Kellie. In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Pe ...

* David Constable * Robert Dundas of Arniston * Robert Graham of Balgowan *

Henry Jardine Sir Henry Jardine of Harwood WS FRSE (30 January 1766 – 11 August 1851) was a solicitor, antiquarian and a founder member of the Bannatyne Club in 1823, with his friend Sir Walter Scott. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 30 January 1766. He ...

of Harwood * Rev. John Lee *

James Maidment James Maidment (1793 in London – 1879 in Edinburgh) was a British antiquary and collector. He passed through Edinburgh University to the Scottish bar, and was chief authority on genealogical cases. Maidment's hobby was the collection of l ...

Gilbert Laing Meason Gilbert Laing Meason of Lindertis FRSE FSA (3 July 1769 – 14 August 1832) was a Scottish merchant and agricultural improver, best remembered as the originator of the term landscape architecture. Life He was born Gilbert Laing in Kirkwall, the s ...

John Murray, Lord Murray Sir John Archibald Murray of Henderland, Lord Murray, FRSE (1778–1859) was a Scottish judge and Senator of the College of Justice. Life He was born in Midlothian on 8 June 1778, the second son of Alexander Murray, Lord Henderland, Lord of Se ...

Robert Pitcairn Robert Pitcairn (May 6, 1836 – July 25, 1909) was a Scottish-American railroad executive who headed the Pittsburgh Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the late 19th century. He was the brother of the PPG Industries, Pittsburgh Plate Glass ...

* Sir Samuel Shepherd *

James Skene of Rubislaw James Skene of Rubislaw (1775–1864) was a Scottish lawyer and amateur artist, best known as a friend of Sir Walter Scott. Life The second son of George Skene (1736–1776) of Rubislaw, Aberdeen and his wife Jane (Jean) Moir of Stoneywood, ...

* George Smythe *

Patrick Fraser Tytler Patrick Fraser Tytler FRSE FSA(Scot) (30 August 179124 December 1849) was a Scottish advocate and historian. He was described as the "Episcopalian historian of a Presbyterian country". Life The son of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhou ...

(1823)

Further Members admitted November 25, 1823

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 2nd Earl of Minto, (; 16 November 178231 July 1859), styled as Viscount Melgund between 1813 and 1814, was a British diplomat and Whig politician. Background and education Minto was the eldest son of the Gilbe ...

* George Chalmers * William Blair of Avonton * James T. Gibson Craig *

Andrew Skene Andrew Skene FRSE (1784–1835) was a Scottish advocate who rose to the highest level for his profession: Solicitor General for Scotland. Life He was born in Aberdeen on 28 February 1784 the son of Prof George Skene of Rubislaw FRSE MD (1741- ...

Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan Thomas Maitland, Lord Dundrennan (9 October 1792 – 10 June 1851) was a Scottish lawyer and judge. He was Solicitor General for Scotland between 1840 and 1841 and again between 1846 and 1850. He was also Member of Parliament A member of par ...

Later members

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, (28 January 178414 December 1860), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British statesman, diplomat and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite politician and specialist in ...

(1827) *

Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, 7th Duke of Brandon KG PC FRS FSA (3 October 1767 – 18 August 1852) was a Scottish politician and art collector. Life Born on 3 October 1767 at St. James's Square, London, a son of Archibald H ...

(1828) *

Earl of Ashburnham Earl of Ashburnham (pronounced "Ash-''burn''-am"), of Ashburnham in the County of Sussex, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1730 for John Ashburnham, 3rd Baron Ashburnham, who was also created Viscount St Asaph, in Wales. ...

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, (6 July 1766 – 20 October 1839), known as Lord John Russell until 1802, was a British Whig politician who notably served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the Ministry of All the Talents. He was the fathe ...

Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland of Holland, and 3rd Baron Holland of Foxley PC (21 November 1773 – 22 October 1840), was an English politician and a major figure in Whig politics in the early 19th century. A grandson of Henry F ...

Cosmo Innes Cosmo Nelson Innes FRSE (9 September 1798 – 31 July 1874) was a Scottish advocate, judge, historian and antiquary. He served as Advocate-Depute, Sheriff of Elginshire, and Principal Clerk of Session. He was a skilled decipherer of ancient S ...

February 1859

* The Earl of Aberdeen * William Patrick Adam, Esq * The Earl of Ashburnham * Lord Belhaven and Hamilton * William Blair * Beriah Botfield, Esq., MP * Marquess of Breadalban * Sir Thomas MakDougall Brisbane * George Brodie, Esq * Charles Dashwood Bruce, Esq * Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry * Dean Richard Butler * Sir Hugh Hume Campbell * James Campbell, Esq * Thomas Carnegy, Esq * Earl of Cawdor * Patrick Chalmers, Esq * Right Hon. Sir George Clerk * David Constable, Esq * Thomas Constable, Esq * Andrew Coventry, Esq * David Cowan, Esq * James T. Gibson Craig, Esq (Treasurer) * Sir William Gibson Craig * Marquess of Dalhousie * George Home Drummond, Esq * Henry Drummond, Esq, MP * Right Hon. Sir David Dundas * George Dundas, Esq. * William Pitt Dundas, Esq * Earl of Ellesmere * Joseph Walter King Eyton, Esq * Lieut.-Col. Robert Ferguson, MP * Count Mercer De Flahault * Earl of Gosford * William Gott, Esq * Robert Graham, Esq * Earl of Haddington *

Duke of Hamilton and Brandon Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in April 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that peerage (except for the Dukedom of Rothesay held by the Sovereign's eldest son), and as such its holder is the premier peer of Sco ...

* Sir Thomas Buchan Hepburn * James Maitland Hog, Esq * Right Hon. John Hope, Lord Justice-Clerk * Cosmo Innes, Esq * Daved Iriving, LL.D * Hon. James Ivory, Lord Ivory * David Laing, Esq (Secretary) * John Bailey Langhorne, Esq * The Earl of Lauderdale * Very Rev. Principal John Lee, DD * Lord Lindsay * James Loch, Esq * The Marquess of Lothian * Lord Lovat * James MacKenzie, Esq * John Whiteford MacKenzie, Esq * Keith Stewart MacKenzie, Esq * William Forbes MacKenzie, Esq * James Maidment, Esq * Sir William Maxwell, Bart * The Hon. William Leslie Melville * The Earl of Minto * James Moncreiff, Esq., MP * The Earl of Morton * James Patrick Muirhead, Esq * Hon. Sir John A. Murray, Lord Murray * Robert Nasmyth, Esq * Hon. Charles Neaves * Lord Neaves * The Earl of Northesk * Lord Panmure * Alexander Pringle, Esq * John Richardson, Esq * Duke of Roxburghe * Reverend Hew Scott * James R. Hope Scott, Esq * Earl of Selkirk * James Young Simpson, MD * Alexander Sinclair, Esq * James Skene, Esq * William Smythe, Esq * John Spottiswoode, Esq * Edward Stanley, Esq * Reverend William Stevenson, DD * Hon. Charles Francis Stuart * Duke of Sutherland * Archibald Campbell Swinton, Esq * Alexander Thomson, Esq * Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan * William B. D. D. Turnbull, Esq. * Adam Urquart, Esq * Alexander Maconochie Welwood, Esq.

Publications

Full texts of the complete Bannatyne Club publications are available online through the National Library of Scotland. * 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 ublished in Edinburgh(1827) * Melville of Halhill, Sir James, Memoirs of His Own Life, ed. T. Thomson (1827) * Laing, D. ed., Original Letters relating to the Ecclesiastical Affairs of Scotland, 2 vols (Published in Edinburgh, 1851) * Siege of the Castle of Edinburgh MDCLXXXIX, presented to the Bannatyne Club by Robert Bell (1828) * The Æneid of Virgil Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, 2 vols. (1839)