21 years after last supper, city Burns club to rise again

From: Evening News - Scotland | Date: January 24, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

THE Burns club attended by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan has reformed and will hold its first supper in more than 20 years tomorrow night.

The Edinburgh Burns Supper Club was formed 160 years ago by a close friend and publisher of the Ayrshire bard himself, before being disbanded in the 1980s.

Professor David Purdie, a retired physician and lifelong enthusiast of the poet's work, has helped resurrect the society.

And he will follow in the footsteps of authors Conan Doyle and Buchan when he proposes the Toast to the Immortal Memory at the New Club in Princes Street.

Lord Provost ...

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