Overview
Carlton is a district in the east end of Glasgow. (For more information about this area, see Gordon Adams’s article, ‘Carlton’ on the East Glasgow History website.)
This club met on the first Tuesday of the month between October and April. Meetings were held at M’Culloch’s Restaurant (109 Argyle Street), and later at Sloan’s Arcade Café (108 Argyll Street). There were 60 members in 1896, and their club grew over the years, rising to 103 members by 1914. The 1904 Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory lists its objects under the ‘Special features of the Club’:
‘[…] the perpetuation of the memory of Burns, and the intellectual and social intercourse of its members by such means as may from time to time be agreed upon.’
(‘No. 67. — GLASGOW Carlton Burns Club’, ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1904’, in Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1904), p. 141)
Interestingly, this club — in conjunction with the Rosebery Burns Club — issued a volume of the works of Robert Burns in braille (‘Club Notes’, ‘Carlton Burns Club’, in Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XXIV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, 1915), p. 175)
Date of Existence
February 1894-? Federated 1894
Source of Information
1. Memorial Catalogue of the Burns Exhibition. Held in the Galleries of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 175 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, From 15th July till 31st October, 1896 (Glasgow: William Hodge & Company and T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1898), p. xvi;
2. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1895’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. IV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1895), p. 179;
3. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1896’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. V (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1896), p. 135;
4. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1898’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. VII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1898), p. 142;
5. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1899’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. VIII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1899), p. 159;
6. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1904’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1904), p. 141;
7. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1905’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. XIV (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1905), pp. 151-2;
8. ‘Directory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies on the Roll of the Burns Federation, 1909’, in BC, ed. by D. M’Naught, No. VIII (Kilmarnock: Burns Federation, January 1909), p. 167
Repository
Mitchell Library Special Collections (MLSC)
National Library of Scotland (NLS)
Reference Number
Mitchell (AL) 14A MEM 472108 (MLSC) (Memorial Catalogue)
BNS19BUR (MLSC) (Annual Burns Chronicle)
General Reading Room (stored offsite), Y.233, available no. 1-34 25th Jan. 1892-Jan. 1925 (NLS) (Annual Burns Chronicle)
Additional Notes
See Rosebery Burns Club.
‘BC‘ refers to the Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, which was published yearly since 1892. Hard copies are available at the Mitchell Library Special Collections and the National Library of Scotland. Many of them have been digitised and are available through the Robert Burns World Federation website: http://www.rbwf.org.uk/digitised-chronicles/.
This list of Burns chronicles as sources of information gives the first year the club was included in the chronicle, and thereafter only for the years where the information is different from the previous year’s listing. In keeping with the scope of this study (1800-1914), only the chronicles published between 1892 and 1914 are included.