278 REPORT OF Meetings for 1905 



Morpeth for Mitfoed. 



The Fourth Meeting of the year was held at Morpeth on 

 Thursday, 24th August, in splendid weather Among those 

 present were the following :— Mr Wm. B. Boyd, President ; 

 Captain Norman, E.N., Organizing Secretary ; Eev. J. J. M. 

 L. Aiken, B.D., Editing Secretary ; Miss and Miss A. M. Aiken, 

 Ayton; Eev. E. Arkless, Earsdon; Mr John Bolam, Bilton; 

 Mr James Boyd, Newcastle ; Miss Boyd, Faldonside ; Eer. 

 J. Burleigh, Ednam; Mr George G. Butler, Ewart Park; 

 Eev. Professor Cooper, D.D., Glasgow University; Mr J. 

 T. Dand, Hauxley; Mr Thomas Darling, Berwick; Mr 

 William Dunn, Eedden; The Honourable and Eev. Wm. 

 C. Ellis, Bothalhaugh; Eev. James Fairbrother, Wark- 

 worth ; Mr James Fergusson, Morpeth ; Mr George Fortune, 

 Duns ; Mr Arthur Giles, Edinburgh ; Mr J. E. Hardy, Morpeth ; 

 Sir Archibald Buchan-Hepburn, Bart., Smeaton-Hepburn ; 

 Mr J. C. Hodgson, Alnwick ; Mr E. Huggup, Newcastle ; 

 Eev. James F. Leishman, M.A., Linton; Mr T. Matheson, 

 Morpeth; Mr James Millar, Duns; Mr Benjamin Morton, 

 Sunderland; Mr C. F. Murphy, Morpeth; Councillor E. C. 

 Oliver, Mayor of Morpeth; Mr W. M. Powell, London; Mr 

 W. Mark Pybus, Warkworth ; Mr T. B. Short, Berwick ; Mr 

 Jas. A. Somervail, Hoselaw; Mr W. B. Swan, Duns; Mr 

 Edward Thew, Warkworth ; Eev. Canon Walker, Whalton ; 

 Mr Joseph Wilson and Miss Wilson, Duns ; Mr Thomas 

 Wilson, Eoberton; Eev. J. M. Witherow, M.A., Glasgow; 

 and Mr D. Veitch and Miss Veitch, Duns. 



On a wooded height to the South of the river Wansbeck, 

 stands the Castle of Morpeth, before whose postern-gate on 

 the present occasion the members assembled at ten o'clock. 

 Though fairly representative, the company included no member 

 of the Club who had taken part in the last excursion to this 

 historic site in 1880, but the guide on that occasion, Mr James 

 Fergusson, Morpeth, was happily able to renew the favour 

 then granted, and impart his extensive local knowledge to 



