Social Victorians/London Clubs
Cliques and Social Networks
edit- The Marlborough House Set
- The Souls
- The Coterie
Flourishing and Address as of 1875
editAlbert
edit1 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C. (Thom 527)
Alfred
edit22A Change Alley, E.C.
Alpine
edit8 St. Martin's Place, W.C.
Arlington
edit4 Arlington Street, W. (Thom 527)
Army & Navy
edit36 Pall Mall, S. W. (Thom 527)
Junior Army and Navy Club
edit12 Grafton Street, W.
Arthur's
edit69 St. James's Street, S. W.
Arts
edit17 Hanover Square, W.
Arundel
edit12 Salisbury Street, Strand
Athenaeum
edit107 Pall Mall, S. W.
And Junior Athenaeum Club
edit116 Picadilly, W.
Beaufort
edit7 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, W.
Boodle's
edit28 St. James's Street
Brooks'
edit60 St. James's Street
Burlington Fine Arts
edit17 Savile Row, W.
Carlton
edit94 Pall Mall
City Carlton Club
edit83 King William Street., E. C.
Junior Carlton Club
edit30 Pall Mall
Cavendish
edit307 Regent Street, W.
City Liberal
edit71 Queen Street, E.C. (address marked as "temporary" in 1875)
City of London
edit19 Old Broad Street, E. C.
City United
editLudgate Circus, E. C.
Civil and Military
edit316 Regent Street, W.
Clarence
edit1 Regent Street, Waterloo Place, S. W.
Cobden
edit5 Milman Street, Bedford Row, W. C.
Cocoa Tree
edit64 St. James's Street
Conservative
edit74 St. James's Street
Junior Conservative Club
edit29 King Street, St. James's (Thom 528)
Cosmopolitan
edit30 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, W.
County
edit43 Albemarle Street, W.
Crichton
edit3 Adelphi Terrace, W. C.
Devonshire
editSt. James's Street
East India United Service
edit14 St. James's Square
Egerton
edit87 St. James's Street
Farmers'
editSalisbury Hotel, Fleet Street
Garrick
edit13 Garrick Street, W. C.
Junior Garrick Club
edit1A Adelphi Terrace, Strand, W. C.
Grafton
edit10 Grafton Street, W.
Grampian
edit11 Charles Street, Cavendish Square, W.
Gresham
editGresham Place, King William Street, E. C.
Guards'
edit70 Pall Mall, S. W.
Hanover
edit28 George Street, W.
Hogarth
edit84 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, W.
Ilchester Club
edit2, 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
edit103 Chancery Lane
Marlborough
edit52 Pall Mall
Medical
edit9 Spring Gardens, S. W.
Men and Women's Club
editNational
edit1 Whitehall Gardens
Naval and Military
edit94 Picadilly, W.
Junior Naval and Military Club
edit19 Dover Street, W.
New Thames Yacht
editCaledonian Hotel, 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, W. C.
New Travellers'
edit16 George Street, Hanover Square, W.
New University
edit57 St. James's Street
Oriental
edit18 Hanover Square, W.
Oxford and Cambridge
edit71 Pall Mall
Pall Mall
edit7 Waterloo Place, S. W.
Pheonix
edit275 Strand, W. C.
Portland
editPratt's
edit14 Park Place, St. James's
Prince's Cricket and Prince's Racket and Tennis
edit22 Hans Place, Sloane Street, S. W., same address as the Prince's Racket and Tennis Club
Prince of Wales's Yacht
editFreemason's Tavern, 61 Great Queen Street, W. C.
Raleigh
edit14 Regent Street, S. W.
Ramblers'
edit35 Ludgate Hill
Reform
edit104 Pall Mall
Royal London Yacht
editRoyal Artillery and Royal Engineers; vide Medical
editRoyal Thames Yacht
edit7 Albemarle Street
St. George's Chess
edit20 King Street, St. James's
St. James's
edit106 Picadilly
Junior St. James's Club
edit54 St. James's Street
St. Stephen's
edit1 Bridge Street, Westminster, S. W.
Savile
edit15 Savile Row, W.
Smithfield
edit47 Half Moon Street, W.
Stafford
edit2 Savile Row, W.
Temple
edit37 Arundel Street, Strand
Thatched House
edit86 St. James's Street
Travellers'
edit106 Pall Mall
Turf
edit4 Grafton Street, W.
Union
editTrafalgar Square, W.
United Clergy and Laity
edit24 Charles Street, St. James's
United Service
edit116 Pall Mall
Junior United Service Club
edit11 Charles Street, St. James's
United University
edit1 Suffolk Street, Pall Mall East, S. W.
Universities
edit71 Jermyn Street, St. James's, S. W.
Verulam
edit54 St. James's Street
Victoria
edit18 Wellington Street, Strand, W. C.
Wanderers'
edit4 Park Place, St. James's
Westminster
edit23 Albemarle Street
Whitehall
edit47 Parliament Street, S. W.
White's
edit38 St. James's Street
Established in 1693, the oldest of London's gentleman's clubs, White's still excludes women. It was named originally for a business, Mrs. White's Chocolate House.
Windham
edit11 St. James's Square
Bibliography
edit- 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.
"White's." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%27s (accessed August 2020).
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 2.0 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.