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Dressing up in penguin suits and eating and drinking to excess in a formal setting is an ancient Oxford tradition, and when no reasonable excuse exists for such activities, one is invented, known as a "Dining Society". Until recently, the Dining Society has been mainly the preserve of Hooray Henries (e.g. The Bullingdon, The Assassins, The Keats Society, etc.), and the ritual destruction of the surroundings was and is an important part of the occasion. This is not normally part of Byron Society dinners, owing mainly to our limited ability to pay for the damage. Instead, the artistic equivalent, namely the presentation of poetry composed by the invitees, takes place.

• Lunch, Cherwell Boathouse Restaurant, Oxford. 7 April 19
• Dinner, Trumbull room, Yale Club, New York, U.S. 14 April 12
• Dinner, La Petite Auberge restaurant, New York, U.S. 19 September 03
• Dinner, Indigo restaurant, San Francisco, U.S. 28 October 01
• Dinner, The Harry Browne's restaurant, State Circle, Annapolis, U.S., 29 August 98
• Dinner, La Luna Caprese restaurant, Oxford, 21 November 92
• Weekend at Castle Combe, 10-13 January 92
• Dinner, White Lady restaurant, Newstead Abbey, 20 July 91
• Weekend at Chipping Camden, 18-21 January 91
• Weekend at Chipping Camden, ?? January 90
• Event, Castle Brenti, London, 3 June 89
• Dinner, Cherwell Boathouse restaurant, Oxford, 24 March 89
• Drunken picnic, Boar's Hill, nr. Oxford, ?? June 88
• Dinner, Old Bursary, Trinity College, Oxford, 19 February 88
• Dinner, Cherwell Boathouse restaurant, Oxford, 18 June 87
• Dinner, Old Bursary, Trinity College, Oxford, 3 March 87
• Inaugural dinner, Trinity College Hall, Oxford, 7 June 85