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From: Evening News - Scotland
Date: 20020909
Author:GINA DAVIDSON

ROBERT Louis Stevenson said it was the "best thing" about Edinburgh, while Sir Walter Scott was often quoted on his enthusiasm for it, yet the Speculative Society of Edinburgh has long been one of the most mysterious and elusive coteries of people of wealth and influence to which the city has ever given birth.

Now, however, the club and its powerful members are about to be dragged into the limelight. Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy has written to the Lord Advocate Colin Boyd, demanding an investigation into the Speculative Society, as he is concerned that its member ship of senior ...

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