Past Gatherings

Since its formation, the Society has endeavoured to hold Annual Meetings and Gatherings whenever possible, although this has not always been achieved, particularly during the war years.  A list of Gatherings has been compiled (listed below) since the first Gathering at Balcarres in 1898.

2023 – Falkland Palace
2022 – Inverness and Culloden Battlefield
2021 – Abbotsford House, Melrose
2020 – Cancelled (Balcarres)
2019 – Inveraray Castle
2018 – Earlshall Castle
2017 – Ceres
2016 – Liddesdale
2015 – Edzell
2014 – Stirling Castle, Stirling
2013 – The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Alloway
2012 – Luffness and Dirleton Castle, East Lothian
2011 – Balhousie Castle, Perth
2010 – Culzean Castle, Ayrshire
2009 – ‘Homecoming’ – Edinburgh, Kilconquhar, Balcarres, Lahill and Edzell
2008 – Floors Castle, Kelso
2007 – Kellie Castle, Fife
2006 – Thirlestane Castle, Lauder
2005 – Biggar Museum & Gladstone Court, Biggar
2004 – Edzell Castle and Lindsay Aisle, Edzell
2003 – Falkland Palace
2002 – Dunfermline Abbey and Palace
2001 – Linlithgow
2000 – Arniston House
1999 – Stirling Castle and Argyll’s Lodging
1998 – Edzell Castle  (600th anniversary of Earldom)
1997 – Kilconquhar, Balcarres and Lahill  (100th anniversary of Society)
1996 – Biggar, Greenhill House
1995 – Aberdour Castle
1994 – Earlshall, Fife
1993 – Melrose, Abbotsford
1992 – Hill of Tarvit, Fife
1991 – Angus Folk Museum, Glamis
1990 – Tartan Museum, Comrie
1989 – Coates House, Fife
1988 – Edzell Castle
1987 – Kilconquhar Castle and Balcarres
1986 – Linlithgow Palace
1985 – Fisheries Museum, Anstruther and Kilconquhar Church
1984 – Falkland Palace
1983 – Gladstone Court Museum, Biggar
1982 – Edzell Castle
1981 – Lochleven Castle
1980 – Mains Castle, East Kilbride
1979 – Balcarres
1978 – Scone Palace
1977 – Edzell, Glenesk, Invermark Castle
1976 – Biggar, Leadhills, Crawford
1975 – Linlithgow, Torphichen
1974 – Stirling Castle and University
1973 – Falkland
1972 – Scone Palace
1971 – Glamis
1970 – Traquair House
1969 – Edzell
1968 – Kinross, Loch Leven Castle
1967 – Loch Katrine and Trossachs
1966 – Scone Palace
1965 – Perth, Falkland
1964 – Kilconquhar
1963 – Blair Atholl
1962 – St Andrews, Leuchars
1961 – Abbotsford
1960 – Rosslyn, Ormiston, Garleton, Byres, Luffness
1959 – Aberfoyle and the Trossachs
1958 – Edzell
1957 – Crawford Priory
1956 – Finhaven, Glamis
1955 – Kilbirnie
1954 – Kilconquhar
1953 – Covington, Crawford
1952 – Dowhill
1951 – Earlston
1950 – Edzell
1949 – Balcarres, Kilconquhar
1948 – Perth, Evelick
World War II
1939 – Cancelled (Edzell)
1938 – Glasgow (Exhibition)
1937 – Edinburgh, Borthwick
1936 – Lanark, Douglas and Mains
1935 – Edzell
1934 – Cupar, Struthers, Balcarres
1933 – Perth, Evelick
1932 – Dumfries, Southwick, Auchenskeoch, Fairgirth
1931 – Kinross, Dowhill
1930 – Biggar, Crawford, Covington
1929 – Glasgow, Bonhill
1928 – Edzell
1927 – Edinburgh, Earlston
1926 – Dundee, Arbroath, Glamis
1925 – St Andrews, Crawford Priory, Balcarres, Kilconquhar
1924 – London (Exhibition)
1923 – Edinburgh and Dunbar
1922 – Edzell
World War I
1914 – Cancelled (Earlston)
1913 – Biggar and Covington
1912 – Biggar
1911 – Glasgow (Exhibition)
1910 – Edzell
1909 – Glasgow, Mains, Crossbasket
1908 – Edinburgh (Exhibition), Newbattle and Rosslyn
1907 – St Andrews and Kilconquhar
1906 – Kinross and Dowhill
1905 – Crawford
1904 – Edzell
1903 – Edinburgh and Gosford
1902 – Dundee, Glamis, Kinnaird Castle
1901 – Glasgow, Loch Lomond
1900 – Cupar, Lordscairnie, Mount, Crawford Priory, Ceres
1899 – Edzell, Forfarshire
1898 – Balcarres, Fife  (500th anniversary of the Earldom)