Menu Card, Portfolio of Menu Cards and Letters Relating to the Khayyam Club
Artist
James McBey
(Newburgh, Scotland, 1883 - 1959)
AssociatedAssociated with
The Omar Khayyam Club
AssociatedAssociated with
Ryland Adkins
AssociatedAssociated with
Edward Heron-Allen
AssociatedAssociated with
Walter Willson Cobbett
AssociatedAssociated with
Ian D. Colvin
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir Arthur Stockdale Cope
(London, England, 1857 - 1940)
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir William Arbuthnot Lane
(Fort George, Inverness, Scotland, 1856 - 1943)
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir Israel Gollancz
(London, England, 1863 - 1930)
AssociatedAssociated with
Frank Kingsley Griffith
AssociatedAssociated with
Philip Guedalla
AssociatedAssociated with
Percy Greenbank
AssociatedAssociated with
Martin Hardie
(London, England, 1875 - 1952)
AssociatedAssociated with
Edgar Horne
AssociatedAssociated with
Bohun Lynch
AssociatedAssociated with
D. Storrar Meldrum
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir David Murray
(Glasgow, Scotland, 1849 - 1933)
AssociatedAssociated with
Harold Nicolson
AssociatedAssociated with
Professor R H A Plimmer
AssociatedAssociated with
George Pritchard
AssociatedAssociated with
John Quiller Rowett
AssociatedAssociated with
Michael Sadleir
AssociatedAssociated with
Sir Malcolm Seton
Date1924
Object NameMenu Card
Mediumpaper
ClassificationsMcBey
DimensionsClosed: 21.5 x 16.2cm
Open: 21.5 x 32.4cm
Open: 21.5 x 32.4cm
AcquisitionPresented in 1988 by Mrs Marguerite McBey.
Copyright© Aberdeen City Council (McBey Collection)
LocationView by Appointment - Aberdeen Treasure Hub
Object numberABDAG008362.7
Keywords
The dinner was held on 3 April 1924, at "Pagini's", and present guests included several notable British politicians, barristers, artists and poets, and scientists, such as:
Sir Ryland Adkins (barrister)
Edward Heron Allen (translated the works of Omar Khayyam; scientist; speaker of Turkic languages)
Ellis Barker
Dr. Barton
Dr. F.E. Beddard
Dr. William Bligh
W. Perkins Bull
W.W. Cobbett (Walter Willson Cobbett, violinist and writer)
S.B. Collett
Ian D. Colvin (who penned the Drinking Song on the reverse of the menu card)
Sir Alfred Cope (senior civil servant)
Norman Davey
Alfred Duche
Father Flynn
A Forestier
Sir George Frampton (sculptor)
J.A. Gardner
Professor Sir Israel Gollancz (Shakespeare scholar)
Percy Greenbank (lyricist)
F. Kingsley Griffith (barrister and politician)
Philip Guedalla (writer and politician)
Martin Hardie (artist)
John Henderson (politician)
Edgar Horne (businessman and Unionist politician)
Arthur Hutchinson
Joseph James
Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane (surgeon)
Bohun Lynch (historian)
James McBey
R.H. Marsh
D. Storrar Meldrum
Sir David Murray (painter)
The Hon. Harold Nicolson (diplomat and writer)
Professor R.H.A. Plimmer
George Pritchard
W. Pett Ridge (author)
W.P. Robins
Arthur R. Ropes (also known as Adrian Ross; lyricist)
John Quiller Rowett (businessman - spirits industry; financed the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition to the Antarctic)
Michael Sadleir (novelist and book collector)
Sir Malcolm Seton
Ralph Straus
C.J. Waldron
W.P. Watt
George Whale
Edmund Wimperis (architect)
John Woodhouse (Anglican Suffragan Bishop)
This object is part of an archive that belonged to Marguerite McBey. As a result of her generosity, Aberdeen Art Gallery holds the largest archive of James McBey's work, including prints, drawings, sketchbooks, oil paintings and memorabilia such as this menu card.
late 14th-early 15th Century
Thomas Brown
Bill Baxter
Bill Baxter
Mary Garden
