Social Victorians/London Clubs

Cliques and Social Networks

• The Marlborough House Set
• The Souls
• The Coterie

Flourishing and Address as of 1875

Albert

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

Alfred

22A Change Alley, E.C.

Alpine

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

Arlington

4 Arlington Street, W. (Thom 527)

Army & Navy

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

Junior Army and Navy Club

12 Grafton Street, W.

Arthur's

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

Arts

17 Hanover Square, W.

Arundel

12 Salisbury Street, Strand

Athenaeum

107 Pall Mall, S. W.

And Junior Athenaeum Club

116 Picadilly, W.

Beaufort

7 Rathbone Place, Oxford Street, W.

Boodle's

28 St. James's Street

Brooks'

60 St. James's Street

Burlington Fine Arts

17 Savile Row, W.

Carlton

94 Pall Mall

City Carlton Club

83 King William Street., E. C.

Junior Carlton Club

30 Pall Mall

Cavendish

307 Regent Street, W.

City Liberal

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

City of London

19 Old Broad Street, E. C.

City United

Ludgate Circus, E. C.

Civil and Military

316 Regent Street, W.

Clarence

1 Regent Street, Waterloo Place, S. W.

Cobden

5 Milman Street, Bedford Row, W. C.

Cocoa Tree

64 St. James's Street

Conservative

74 St. James's Street

Junior Conservative Club

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

Cosmopolitan

30 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, W.

County

43 Albemarle Street, W.

Crichton

3 Adelphi Terrace, W. C.

Devonshire

St. James's Street

East India United Service

14 St. James's Square

Egerton

87 St. James's Street

Farmers'

Salisbury Hotel, Fleet Street

Garrick

13 Garrick Street, W. C.

Junior Garrick Club

1A Adelphi Terrace, Strand, W. C.

Grafton

10 Grafton Street, W.

Grampian

11 Charles Street, Cavendish Square, W.

Gresham

Gresham Place, King William Street, E. C.

Guards'

70 Pall Mall, S. W.

Hanover

28 George Street, W.

Hogarth

84 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, W.

Ilchester Club

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

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.

Law Society

103 Chancery Lane

Marlborough

52 Pall Mall

Medical

9 Spring Gardens, S. W.

National

1 Whitehall Gardens

Naval and Military

94 Picadilly, W.

Junior Naval and Military Club

19 Dover Street, W.

New Thames Yacht

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

New Travellers'

16 George Street, Hanover Square, W.

New University

57 St. James's Street

Oriental

18 Hanover Square, W.

Oxford and Cambridge

71 Pall Mall

Pall Mall

7 Waterloo Place, S. W.

Pheonix

275 Strand, W. C.

Pratt's

14 Park Place, St. James's

Prince's Cricket and Prince's Racket and Tennis

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

Prince of Wales's Yacht

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

Raleigh

14 Regent Street, S. W.

Ramblers'

35 Ludgate Hill

Reform

104 Pall Mall

Royal Thames Yacht

7 Albemarle Street

St. George's Chess

20 King Street, St. James's

St. James's

106 Picadilly

Junior St. James's Club

54 St. James's Street

St. Stephen's

1 Bridge Street, Westminster, S. W.

Savile

15 Savile Row, W.

Smithfield

47 Half Moon Street, W.

Stafford

2 Savile Row, W.

Temple

37 Arundel Street, Strand

Thatched House

86 St. James's Street

Travellers'

106 Pall Mall

Turf

4 Grafton Street, W.

Union

Trafalgar Square, W.

United Clergy and Laity

24 Charles Street, St. James's

United Service

116 Pall Mall

Junior United Service Club

11 Charles Street, St. James's

United University

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

Universities

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

Verulam

54 St. James's Street

Victoria

18 Wellington Street, Strand, W. C.

Wanderers'

4 Park Place, St. James's

Westminster

23 Albemarle Street

Whitehall

47 Parliament Street, S. W.

White's

38 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

11 St. James's Square

Bibliography

• 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).