The College’s Senior Fellows Club is open to Fellows who have retired from active clinical practice. In addition to surgeons and dental surgeons, the club welcomes retired anaesthetists, radiologists and pathologists.
The Club meets once monthly from October to June, usually in the College’s Symposium Hall. Meetings start at 12 noon with an address given by an invited speaker, followed by lunch in the College’s Ten Hill Place hotel.
The cost of the lunch at present is £18.50 per person. There is also an annual subscription of £15, payable at the start of each session. Members of the club are encouraged to bring spouses partners and friends as guests to all meetings and lunches, except our annual joint meeting with the Senior Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians. This is because of the large numbers who usually attend joint meetings which could exceed the hotel’s capacity for lunches.
For the full programme of Senior Fellows Club events, please see the full programme here.
If you would like to join the Senior Fellows Club, please contact Irene Macdonald, The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9DW, email: i.macdonald@rcsed.ac.uk.
Senior Fellows Club Videos
Watch videos of previous talks from our Senior Fellows Club below.
- Professor Michael Griffin OBE, Immediate Past President RCSEd - "Chronology of the Covid-19 epidemic" (9th March 2023)
- Arran Johnston, Historian, Director, Scottish Battlefields Trust - “The Battle of Prestonpans” (9th February 2023)
- Martin Geissler, Television presenter and Journalist - "Changes to the News Industry and the Future of News" (12th January 2023)
- Dr Sarah Deters, Curator, St Cecilia’s Hall - “What the heck(elphone)? The sounds of forgotten musical instruments” (8th December 2022)
- Professor J Murray Roberts, Professor of Applied Marine Biology and Ecology, University of Edinburgh - "Cold-water Corals in a Changing Ocean (3rd November 2022)
- Alan Brown, Senior Fellow- “The Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica – the Trip of a Lifetime” and Paul Geissler, Senior Fellow “Airships and Graf von Zeppelin” (6th October 2022)
- Sir Mark Jones - The National Trust for Scotland (23rd June 2022)
- Ian Wallace - The Order of St John of Jerusalem (2nd June 2022)
- Mark Glancy - Audobon's Birds Of America (23rd May 2022)
- Jonathan Noble - In Defence of Reputation – Why have so many famous composers been defamed? (10th May 2022)
- David Balharry - Wild Places for People and Nature (14th April 2022)
- Robert Carr - Chasing the Ambulance from Jex Blake to Montgomery (17th March 2022)
- Iain Macintyre – Edinburgh surgery and the history of golf (6th December 2021)
- Dr Elizabeth Cumming – The Scottish Colourists (11th June 2019)
- Professor David Purdie - The Scottish Enlightment “Morning of the modern World” (20th May 2019)
- Craig Gordon – The Spartans Community Football Academy (12th February 2019)
- Mike Bullock – Northern Lighthouse Board “More than Lighthouses” (6th December 2018)
- Rab Bennets OBE – Bennetts Associates, Architects (12th June 2018)
- Deborah Clarke – Palace of Holyroodhouse a Royal Residence for 500 Years (13th March 2018)
- Dame Sue Black – The Role of Anatomy in the Modern Forensic World (13th February 2018)
- Ian Gardner – Rosslyn Chapel (11th January 2018)
- Steve Sturdy – The Genomic Revolution in Medicine: Cui Bono? A Historical Perspective (7th December 2017)