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Flourishing and Address as of 1875

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Albert

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1 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C. (Thom 527)

Alfred

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22A Change Alley, E.C.

Alpine

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8 St. Martin's Place, W.C.

Arlington

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4 Arlington Street, W. (Thom 527)

Army & Navy

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36 Pall Mall, S. W. (Thom 527)

Junior Army and Navy Club

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12 Grafton Street, W.

Arthur's

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69 St. James's Street, S. W.

Arts

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17 Hanover Square, W.

Arundel

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12 Salisbury Street, Strand

Athenaeum

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107 Pall Mall, S. W.

And Junior Athenaeum Club

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116 Picadilly, W.

Beaufort

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7 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, W.

Boodle's

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28 St. James's Street

Brooks'

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60 St. James's Street

Burlington Fine Arts

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17 Savile Row, W.

Carlton

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94 Pall Mall

City Carlton Club

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83 King William Street., E. C.

Junior Carlton Club

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30 Pall Mall

Cavendish

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307 Regent Street, W.

City Liberal

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71 Queen Street, E.C. (address marked as "temporary" in 1875)

City of London

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19 Old Broad Street, E. C.

City United

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Ludgate Circus, E. C.

Civil and Military

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316 Regent Street, W.

Clarence

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1 Regent Street, Waterloo Place, S. W.

Cobden

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5 Milman Street, Bedford Row, W. C.

Cocoa Tree

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64 St. James's Street

Conservative

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74 St. James's Street

Junior Conservative Club

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29 King Street, St. James's (Thom 528)

Cosmopolitan

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30 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, W.

County

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43 Albemarle Street, W.

Crichton

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3 Adelphi Terrace, W. C.

Devonshire

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St. James's Street

East India United Service

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14 St. James's Square

Egerton

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87 St. James's Street

Farmers'

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Salisbury Hotel, Fleet Street

Garrick

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13 Garrick Street, W. C.

Junior Garrick Club

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1A Adelphi Terrace, Strand, W. C.

Grafton

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10 Grafton Street, W.

Grampian

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11 Charles Street, Cavendish Square, W.

Gresham

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Gresham Place, King William Street, E. C.

Guards'

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70 Pall Mall, S. W.

Hanover

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28 George Street, W.

Hogarth

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84 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, W.

Ilchester Club

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2, 3 Ilchester-gardens, Hyde Park, W.,[1] "just off Bayswater-road"[2]

A club for women. Opened Saturday 19 June 1897 (or perhaps the week before?):

The Ilchester Club.—A club for ladies that has neither an educational nor a political fad to serve is somewhat new. The Ilchester Club for Ladies, occupying two good houses just off the Bayswater-road, has no other object than the providing of a comfortable home for ladies of good birth, on terms which should appeal to a very large number. For the sum of £82 per annum a lady may have all the advantages of a well-conducted house, and have everything provided, including food and many of those social comforts which one does not even find in one's own house. The club starts under capital auspices, and on Saturday night it was inaugurated by the play of "Still Waters Run Deep," excellently played by the Hon. Mabel Vereker and Miss Norah Vandaleur; the former lady, I understand, largely interesting herself in the club. The male characters were cleverly sustained by Captain Baden-Powell, Captain C. E. Norton, Major Montresor, Mr. Davidson of Tulloch. Count de Seilern, the Marquis Montagliari, and Mr. Crookshank. Although the limits of the stage were very narrow, full credit was done to Tom Taylor's delightful comedy.[2]

Law Society

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103 Chancery Lane

Marlborough

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52 Pall Mall

Medical

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9 Spring Gardens, S. W.

Men and Women's Club

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National

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1 Whitehall Gardens

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94 Picadilly, W.

Junior Naval and Military Club

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19 Dover Street, W.

New Thames Yacht

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Caledonian Hotel, 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, W. C.

New Travellers'

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16 George Street, Hanover Square, W.

New University

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57 St. James's Street

Oriental

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18 Hanover Square, W.

Oxford and Cambridge

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71 Pall Mall

Pall Mall

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7 Waterloo Place, S. W.

Pheonix

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275 Strand, W. C.

Portland

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Pratt's

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14 Park Place, St. James's

Prince's Cricket and Prince's Racket and Tennis

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22 Hans Place, Sloane Street, S. W., same address as the Prince's Racket and Tennis Club

Prince of Wales's Yacht

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Freemason's Tavern, 61 Great Queen Street, W. C.

Queen's

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"Founded as The Queen's Club Limited on 19 August 1886 by Evan Charteris, George Francis and Algernon Grosvener, the Queen's Club was the world's second multipurpose sports complex, after the Prince's Club .... The first lawn tennis courts were opened on 19 May 1887, and the first sporting event was held on 1 and 2 July 1887 when Oxford played Cambridge. The club buildings were opened in January 1888, having taken about 18 months to construct."[3]

In order to establish residence for his 26 July 1888 marriage to Caroline, Duchess of Montrose, Marcus Henry Milner "earned the necessary residential qualification by staying at the Queen's Club."[4]

Raleigh

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14 Regent Street, S. W.

Ramblers'

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35 Ludgate Hill

Reform

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104 Pall Mall

Royal London Yacht

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Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers; vide Medical

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Royal Thames Yacht

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7 Albemarle Street

St. George's Chess

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20 King Street, St. James's

St. James's

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106 Picadilly

Junior St. James's Club

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54 St. James's Street

St. Stephen's

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1 Bridge Street, Westminster, S. W.

Savage

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Savile

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15 Savile Row, W.

Smithfield

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47 Half Moon Street, W.

Stafford

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2 Savile Row, W.

Temple

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37 Arundel Street, Strand

Thatched House

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86 St. James's Street

Travellers'

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106 Pall Mall

Turf

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4 Grafton Street, W.

Union

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Trafalgar Square, W.

United Clergy and Laity

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24 Charles Street, St. James's

United Service

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116 Pall Mall

Junior United Service Club

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11 Charles Street, St. James's

United University

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1 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, S. W.

Universities

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71 Jermyn Street, St. James's, S. W.

Verulam

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54 St. James's Street

Victoria

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18 Wellington Street, Strand, W. C.

Wanderers'

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4 Park Place, St. James's

Westminster

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23 Albemarle Street

Whitehall

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47 Parliament Street, S. W.

White's

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38 St. James's Street

Established in 1693, the oldest of London's gentleman's clubs, White's still excludes women.[5] It was named originally for a business, Mrs. White's Chocolate House.[5]

Windham

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11 St. James's Square

Bibliography

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  • Milne-Smith, Amy. London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in late-Victorian England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Google Books: https://books.google.com/books?id=TQrHAAAAQBAJ.
  • Thom, Adam Bisset, compiler. The Upper Ten Thousand: An Alphabetical List of All Members of Noble Families, Bishops, Privy Councillors, Judges, Baronets, Members of the House of Commons, Lords-Lieutenant, Governors of Colonies, Knights and Companions of Orders, Deans and Archdeacons, and the Superior Officers of the Army and Navy, with Their Official Descriptions and Addresses. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1875. Google Books.
  1. ↑ "The Ilchester Ladies' Club." Morning Post 04 June 1897 Friday: 1 [of 10], Col. 3a [of 7]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18970604/002/0001.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Clubland at Play." "The Ilchester Club." Gentlewoman 19 June 1897 Saturday: 40 [of 108], Col. 2c [of 3]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003340/18970619/234/0040.
  3. ↑ "Queen's Club". Wikipedia. 2024-07-28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen's_Club.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Club.
  4. ↑ "Metropolitan Notes." Nottingham Evening Post 31 July 1888, Tuesday: 4 [of 4], Col. 1b [of 6]. British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000321/18880731/025/0004.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "White's". Wikipedia. 2024-10-09. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White's.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%27s.
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