Puffin's is a private members' luncheon club, established in the 1960s by the historian Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk.
Named after his first wife, Diana Hay, 23rd Countess of Erroll (whose nickname was 'Puffin'), it started as an informal social gathering of Scots clan chiefs and aristocrats at Edinburgh.
[3] It is believed that Puffin's throughout the 1960s and 1970s counted half the crowned heads of Europe in its circle,[4] being variously described as distinguished and eccentric.
In addition to former King Zog of Albania, Prince Juan of the Asturias and Archduke Otto von Habsburg (the last Austro-Hungarian Imperial Crown Prince), among other notable members were Prince Giulio Rospigliosi, Don Fernando Fitz-James Stuart, the actor Terence Stamp, writers Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor and Donald Adamson, Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Sir Donald Cameron, Sir David Stirling, baronets Sir Fitzroy Maclean and Sir George Dick-Lauder, the Duke of Atholl, the Marquesses of Ailsa and of Lothian, ex-British PM Lord Home of The Hirsel, the Earl of Selkirk, Lord Burton, Lord Dacre, Lord Lovat and Lord Strange, who attended from time to time.
Peregrine Moncreiffe of that Ilk,[6] David Campbell Bannerman MEP and former MPs Major Narindar Saroop, Viscount Thurso and Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, and clan chiefs including the Earl of Crawford and the Earl of Lauderdale, savants as well as various businessmen.