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The Church of Scotland Michaelmas Club was an unofficial club of ministers founded in 1903 and disbanded in 1980. The club met for dinner at the time of the General Assembly however the true reason for its existence was a gathering which took place each autumn for two or three nights, at or around the 29th September, which marks Michaelmas Day, the festival of St Michael the Archangel. During the autumn gathering of the club, places of interest were visited, papers were read and 'a touch of gracious living, allied to good companionship was enjoyed'. Membership of the club, which was limited to numbers between 12 and 16, was always by invitation, in the beginning by individual members in turn, but latterly new recruits were only invited by consensus of all the existing members. |