2024

Our President for 2024/5 is:

Lord Stewart

He will give the Toast to Sir Walter at our 115th Annual Dinner on 1st May 2025.

Angus Stewart, the Honourable Lord Stewart, was a Senator of the College of Justice 2010—2017. He practised as an advocate 1975—2010 and served as Keeper of the Advocates Library 1995—2002. In that role he was inaugural Chair of the Faculty of Advocates Abbotsford Library Project. His interest in Scott began at school where he won the Sir Walter Scott Club Essay Prize. He has published books, contributions and articles on law, eighteenth century legal history, Jacobite history and on Scott, Stevenson and Barrie. His most recent article, “Sir Walter Scott: Law and Imagination”, offers new information about Scott’s novels Redgauntlet, The Bride of Lammermoor, Anne of Geierstein and Rob Roy.