The Select Society

The Select Society, established as The St. Giles Society but soon renamed, was an intellectual society in 18th century Edinburgh, Scotland.Emerson, Roger L. "The Social Composition of Enlightened Scotland: The Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754-1764." (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century) (1973)]

The Select Society initially had fifteen members who included:
* James Adam
* John Adam
* James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
* George Drummond cite web |url= http://www.electricscotland.com/history/other/drummond_george.htm |title= Significant Scots: George Drummond |format= html |work= Electric Scotland |quote= ]
* Adam Ferguson
* Henry Home, Lord Kames
* David Humecite web |url= http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/10/11/041011crat_atlarge?currentPage=3 |title= Northern Lights: How modern life emerged from eighteenth-century Edinburgh |author= David Denby |format= html |work= The New Yorker |publisher= Review of James Buchan's "Crowded With Genius (Capital of the Mind" in the UK) |date= 11 October 2004 |quote= [p. 3] A convivial bachelor, he [Hume] required company, preferably a dinner party at home (he prided himself on his “cookery”) or a debate at the Select Society, a group of fifty of Edinburgh’s most clubbable and erudite minds. ]
* Allan Ramsay
* William Robertson
* Adam Smith

By the end of its first year, The Select Society had eighty three members. [http://theselectsociety.com/blog/?page_id=2 The Select - A Brief History.] ] Some years later, some of the members established The Poker Club [http://www.jamesboswell.info/Misc/The_Poker_Club.php The Poker Club (1762–1784)] ] .

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ee also

* Scottish Enlightenment
* The Poker Club