History of Society

The Origins of the Society: Our Very Own Da Vinci Code mystery.

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Rev Fred McKay (Foundation Member) on the left at the 1997 Dinner

Whatever else Dan Browns The Da Vinci Code has or has not achieved, it has raised awareness of how difficult it can be to determine the exact origins of human institutions and organizations. Eye witness accounts, as those involved in police and court work know too well, are not the reliable sources they appear to be. Documents sometimes hide as much of the truth as they reveal meeting minutes are notoriously vague and often conceal the heat of debate in the cool formality of recorded decisions.

Although a work of fiction, The Da Vinci Code addresses historical matters some hundreds of years past, indeed ultimately two thousand years past to the earliest days of the Church. The Society of St Andrew of Scotland (Queensland) Limited has a history of close on sixty years (2007 will be the Societys Sixtieth Jubilee year), a trifle compared to the age of the Church. Yet, we face the same problems of identifying how and when the Society came into being.

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History

Tuesday, 04 July 2006 01:15

QUEENSLAND

The Society was formed in Brisbane during 1947 by the following Foundation Members:

Major-General The Hon. Sir Wm. GLASGOW, K.C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., B.D.
W.R.F. BOLTON, Esq., M.B.E., A.A.S.A., A.C.I.S., A.M. Inst. T.
ROBERT S. BYRNES, Esq., M.B.E., B.A.
GEO. A. CAMERON, Esq.
Dr. H. CRAWFORD, M.B., B.S., F.R.A.C.S.
D.M. FRASER, Esq., LL.B.
Group Capt. A.G. GRANT, O.B.E., M.B., B.S., Ph.C.
A.R. KELLY, Esq.
R.A. KERR, Esq., M.A., B.Sc.
Professor W.M. KYLE, M.A.
A.V. LOGAN, Esq.
F.E. LOXTON, Esq. B.A.
H.F.Y. MARSHALL, Esq. A.C.I.S., A.A.S.A.
Lt. Colonel ALEX MELDRUM, D.S.O.
H.C. MORROW, Esq.
A.P. MUIR, Esq. B.A., LL.M
A.D. McGILL, Esq., B.A., Q.C.
W/Cdr. Rev. J.F. McKAY, C.M.G, O.B.E., M.A., B.D.
Sir FERGUS McMASTER, Kt.
DUNCAN McWHIRTER, Esq.
J.W. PEDEN, Esq., F.C.A. (Aust.)
G.C. REID, Esq., M.C.
S.A. RENNIE, Esq.
Hon. W. FORGAN SMITH, LL.D.
R.G. STEELE, Esq.
J.S.R. WYLLIE, Esq.

NOTE: A statue of the founding President stands opposite the Crest Hotel on the small park boarded by Albert St., Roma St. and Turbot overpass. This was funded by a fund set up by our members with Sir Reg Groom as Chairman.

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