In 1990, as part of its Purchase of Rooms Appeal, the Society received a donation from the Trustee Savings Bank (Scotland), from which Council created a Prize Lectureship named after the Reverend Henry Duncan, founder of the first Trustee Savings Bank. It is awarded triennially to a scholar of any nationality for work of international repute in Scottish Studies.
2009
No award made
6th Award 2005
Professor James Hunter
5th Award 2002
Professor Duncan Macmillan
4th Award 1999
Professor David McCrone
3rd Award 1996
Dr Emily Lyle