DALRY BURNS CLUB
43rd Anniversary
MDCCCLXVIII
List of Toasts Proposed
I. The Queen |
The Chairman |
Song. "God save the Queen" |
Mr Logan |
II. Prince of Wales and Royal Family |
The Chairman |
III. Both Houses of Parliament |
The Chairman |
IV. Army and Navy |
The Chairman |
Song. "Rule Britannia" |
Mr Cameron |
V. The Volunteers |
Dr Sloan |
Song. "The wee wee German Lairdie" |
Mr Logan |
VI. The Memory of Burns |
The Chairman |
Song. "Corn Rigs" |
Mr Cameron |
VII. The Family of the Poet |
The Croupier |
VIII. Deceased Members |
Capt Paton |
Song. "My Wife's a winsome we thing" |
Mr Loudon |
IX. Dramatic Literature, with Shakespeare |
Mr Logan |
Song. "Hurrah for the Highlands" |
Mr Longwill |
Recitation. "Lines on the Depopulation of the Highlands" |
Mr McDougall |
X. The Historians, with Sir A Alison |
Mr Stirrat |
XI. The English Poets, with Tennyson |
Dr Blair |
Song. "Sweet vale of Avoca" |
Mr Cameron |
XII. The Living Novelists, with Bulwer Lytton |
Dr Sloan |
Song. "Dannybrook Fair" |
Mr Morris |
Recitation. "George III and the dying Gipsy" or "The Greenwood Shrift" |
Dr Blair ( given in inimitable style) |
XIII. American Poets, with Edgar Allan Poe |
Mr Macphee |
Song. "Green Grow the rashes, o" |
Mr Loudon |
XIV. The Land o' Cakes |
Mr Morris |
Song. "Loudon's bonnie Woods and Braes" |
Mr Cameron |
XV. The Old English Poets |
Mr Angus |
Song. "Dumbarton's Bonny Belle" |
Mr Longwill |
Song. "Tally Ho the Hounds, Sir" |
Mr Morris |
Song. "I'll drink nae mair to New-Year's-Day" |
Mr Campbell |
XVI. The Young Members, with Mr Allan |
The Chairman |
Song. "My Auld Mither de'ed in the year auchty-nine" |
Mr Young |
XVII. Living Song-Writers, with Mr Logan, the Compiler of these Records |
Mr Hamilton |
Song. "Ilka blade o' grass" |
Mr Logan |
Song. "Were a' Breadalbane's Highlandmen" |
Mr Comrie |
XVIII. Scottish Poets anterior to Burns |
Mr McDougall |
Song. "O are ye sleeping, Maggie?" |
Mr Cameron |
XIX. Memory of Tannahill |
Mr McCowan |
Song. "Thou Bonnie Wood o' Craigielea" |
Mr Hamilton |
Song. "Paddy's Wedding" |
Dr Sloan |
XX. The Chairman's Health |
The Croupier |
Song. "The Little Poker" |
Mr Morris |
The Chairman next gave successively The Croupier's Health, Mine Host, and The Parting Toast and after joining, as is wont, in "Auld Lang Syne", the Club separated. |
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Members Present
Alexander Comrie*, Chairman |
William Hamilton, Contractor, Croupier |
Dr Blair, Surgeon, Dalry |
Dr William Sloan |
William Logan, Parochial Schoolmaster |
Hugh Morris, Kirk Close, Dalry |
Daniel Cameron |
James McNair |
David Brown, Stationer |
Daniel Campbell, Innkeeper |
Allan Loudon |
David Longwill, Hawhill |
John Young, Jeweller |
William McCowan, Hurlford, lately Cashier, Blair Iron Works, Dalry |
Capt. Paton, Hillend |
James Stirrat, Banker |
Duncan McDougall, Clothier |
New Members |
Andrew Allan, Farmer, Munnoch |
Alexandcer Macphee, a native of Paisley, at present Teacher of General Assembly's School at Burnside. |
John Angus, Manager, Blair Iron Works |
*Born at Comrie, Perthshire, on 31st May, 1837 - educated at Comrie Parish School - served an apprenticeship to the legal profession at Crieff, and studied law at Edinburgh and at the University of Glasgow. At present, he is Inspector of Poor and collector of Poor-Rates for the Parish of Dalry, Heritors' Clerk, Collector of Land Cess, Clerk and Treasurer to the Burying Ground Board and Inspector and Clerk to the Local Authority under the Public Health Act.
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