Abbotsford Club Abbotsford Club The Abbotsford Club was a text publication society founded in Edinburgh in 1833 or 1834. This was the year after the death of Sir Walter Scott, whose residence of Abbotsford House gave the society its name, and whose literature the club's publications sought to illuminate. The club was modelled on the Roxburghe Club, of which Scott himself had been a member, as well as the Bannatyne Club, which was founded by Scott, and the Glasgow-centred Maitland Club. The founder and first secretary of the club was William Barclay Turnbull, a young Edinburgh lawyer. The stated objective of the
Abbotsford, Picton surveyor. The main block of the house may have been built before Harper made his trip to England in 1827. The ornamental plantings include relatively rare species of horticultural interest and are thought to have been planted by George Harper. The rest of the house was built before his death at "Abbotsford" in 1841. Purchased by William Redfern Antill, local Magistrate and prominent early settler in 1865. "Abbotsford House" was built . The original access road to "Abbotsford House" extended in a straight line from the "Abbotsford" crossing of Race Course Creek. The timber truss Abbotsford Bridge was built .