1982

Our President in 1982/3 was:

His Grace The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry

He proposed the Toast to Sir Walter at our 75th Annual Dinner on Friday 4th March 1983 in The North British Hotel, Edinburgh

Walter Francis John Montagu Douglas Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch and 11th Duke of Queensberry KT VRD JP DL was a Scottish Peer, politician and landowner. He served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in the Second World War, and represented Edinburgh North in the House of Commons for 13 years.

He owned the largest private landed estate in the United Kingdom, covering some 280,000 acres (1,100 km2). The estate includes Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Bowhill House in Selkirkshire, and Boughton House in Northamptonshire. A fourth house, Dalkeith Palace, near Edinburgh, is let to the West Central Wisconsin Consortium, which uses the palace as a base for its study abroad program.



Text and image source: Wikipedia.