Fingalian Club

Overview

Along with a list of its office bearers, the Glasgow Post Office directory for 1856 to 1857 gives a brief summary of this club:

‘Its objects are to excite in its members (who must be Highlanders) a taste for mutual improvement; to cherish in them a love of History, Literature, and the Sciences, through the medium of meetings, for the delivery of Lectures, reading of Essays, and other communications; and also to form and secure for their behoof a select Gaelic and English Library. Meetings are held weekly in Hope Street Free Church Session House, on Wednesday evenings at 8 o’clock; half-yearly (for the election of directors) on the first Wednesdays of April and October; and annual general on Old New-Year’s-Day.’

(‘Fingalian Club’, ‘Educational and Literary Institutions’, Post-Office Glasgow Directory for 1856, 1857… (Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1856), p. 85)

Date of Existence

1855-?

Source of Information

‘Fingalian Club’, ‘Educational and Literary Institutions’, Post-Office Glasgow Directory for 1856, 1857… (Glasgow: William Mackenzie, 1856), p. 85

Repository

Mitchell Library

National Library of Scotland

Reference Number

Additional Notes

The Glasgow Post Office directories are available at the Mitchell Library and the National Library of Scotland. Digitised copies are available through the NLS website: https://www.nls.uk/family-history/directories/post-office/index.cfm?place=Glasgow