The next meeting of the Northumbria Club will be the 2025 AGM (and dinner) on Wednesday 21.5.25. It will be at 6pm for 6.30pm at the Army & Navy Club, 36 Pall Mall, London. Full details about the AGM will be sent to members in due course. The club’s current chairman, Ian Grainger, will not be seeking re-election but will be the after-dinner speaker on that occasion. He will talk about the life of Thomas Haswell (1807-89), who for nearly half a century was the “Maister” of the Royal Jubilee School in North Shields but who was also a much-respected musician, choirmaster and composer, both at Christ Church in Shields and more widely in the North East.
The Northumbria Club provides an opportunity for those with a Northumbrian background or interest in Northumbria to meet socially. Meetings are held at least four times a year at venues including the Army and Navy Club. Click here for membership costs and application.
The Club
Among many fascinating speakers to the Club, recent examples include Professor Peter Styles on Climate Change and Energy; Sally O'Neill, Deputy Treasurer to Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; Professor Thomas Otte on Viscount (Edward) Grey of Fallodon; Dr Lesley Milner on The After-Life of St Cuthbert; Pippa Lines on the Great North Air Ambulance Service; and Christopher Hunwick, the current archivist at Alnwick Castle and Syon House.
Next Meeting
Jane Percy, Duchess of Northumberland.
Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland.
Speakers
Dates for all meetings up until the end of 2025 are now available on the Meetings page.
Joint Presidents - The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland.