Overview
There is little currently known about this club. From the 1892 and 1895Ā editions of the Annual Burns Chronicle and Club Directory, we know that members met in the Club Rooms located at 163 Ingram Street. This is the address given by the Glasgow Post Office directory for William Barr, wine and spirit merchant. We do not know how many members there were, how frequently they met, nor what the object for meeting was (which was usually stated by most clubs and societies in their rules and constitutions).
Date of Existence
1887-1909; 1914-? Federated 1889
Source of Information
1. āDirectory of Burns Clubs and Scottish Societies, for 1892′, in BC, ed. by John Muir, No. I (Kilmarnock: D. Brown & Co., 25 January 1892), p. 131;
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. 176;
3. 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
Repository
Mitchell Library Special Collections (MLSC) (Annual Burns Chronicle, and Memorial Catalogue)
National Library of Scotland (NLS) (Annual Burns Chronicle)
Reference Number
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)
Mitchell (AL) 14A MEM 472108 (MLS) (Memorial Catalogue)
Additional Notes
Where there are breaks in the dates of a club’s existence, it was the case that the directories listed them as ‘dormant’ during the intervening years.
‘BC‘ refers to theĀ 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 theĀ Robert Burns World FederationĀ website:Ā 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 isĀ differentĀ 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.