Overview
Members of this literary society were most likely part of the congregation of the Barony Free Church, which was located at 43 Castle Street, in the Townhead area of Glasgow. (For more information about this church, see ‘Glasgow — Barony‘ on theĀ theĀ EcclegenĀ website, and Gordon Adams’s article, ‘Barony North Church of Scotland‘, on theĀ East Glasgow HistoryĀ website. For more information about the Townhead area of Glasgow, seeĀ Gerald Blaikie’s article, ‘Townhead Glasgow. Cathedral Precinct‘, on theĀ ScotCitiesĀ website.)
There is very little currently known about this society. The sole evidence comes from the 1883-84 syllabus of another literary group. According to their syllabus for this year, the Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s Literary SocietyĀ had a joint debate with the Barony Free Church Literary Society on ‘Monarchism v. Republicanism’, which was held onĀ 20 November 1883.
Date of Existence
1883?-?
Source of Information
‘Syllabus 1883-84’, [Wellpark Free Church Young Men’s Literary Society], [1883] (attached to the back of the Wellpark societyās 1883-84 literary magazine) (Wellpark F. C. Literary Society M. S. Magazine, 1883-84, pp. 146-47).
Repository
Mitchell Library Special Collections
Reference Number
42897
Additional Notes