This minute book contains the minutes of the committee meetings of the Old Grantite Club. It describes details of those who were present at the meetings, the election of committee members, deatils of sub-committees, how to use the funds of the club and details about the general running of the club. It also includes the rules of the 'Old Grantite Club' at the front of the volume, including the fees for membership. There are inserts within the volume which include letters and invitations sent to members of the club, financial reports, membership forms and photographs. The minutes are hand written up until April 1932, after which the majority of minutes and agendas are printed and separately stuck into the volume.
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Shooting: Miniature Range Empire Test Cup. Not loaded. No cover. Donor: George By Henderson. Awarded: 1921-1959. Currently awarded as the House Shooting Cup.
Samuel Walton Smith & CoSettle's printed poem has been pasted onto large pages and illuminated in an ornate style with architectural and armorial details. These designs are echoed in the binding, which is red morocco with dark blue onlay and decorated with gold and blind tooling. The item was conserved in the 20th century with its corners and spine repaired with brown calf.
it has been suggested that the binding is recycled from an earlier volume. The coats of arms are those of a man from the Savile family, ensigned by an earl's coronet, suggesting a date from 1679-1682, when the grandfather of Lady Dorothy Savile, Lord Burlington's wife, was Earl of Halifax.
Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724