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London Clubs: Their History & Treasures

Chapter 13: INDEX
By Ralph Nevill
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The volume traces how informal taverns and coffee-houses developed into exclusive subscription clubs and eventually into large, well-appointed clubhouses. It surveys many London institutions—political, sporting, military, university, artistic and social—detailing their origins, interiors, badges, ceremonies, rules, elections and membership practices. Anecdotes and illustrations evoke vanished meeting-places and curious past societies, while focused chapters examine changing club-life, dining, card-playing, late sittings, fines and the distinctive character of particular clubs from the St. James’s quarter to the Jockey and Yacht clubs.

INDEX

  • Addison, Joseph, 19, 33
  • Ad Libitum Club, the, 52, 53
  • Albion Hotel, the, 3
  • Alfred Club, the, 283
  • Allen, Lord, 81, 82
  • Almack, William, 100
  • Almack’s, 95, 100
  • Alpine Club, the, 267
  • Alvanley, Lord, 79, 80–82, 283
  • American clubs, 295, 296
  • Amphitryon Club, the, 204–206
  • Apollo Club, the, 1
  • Arbuthnot, 26
  • Archer, Thomas, Lord, 31
  • Arlington Club, the (now the Turf Club), 181
  • Armstrong, Colonel, 81
  • Army and Navy Club, the, 244–251, 256;
  • Arnold, Samuel James, 39–43
  • Arthur, John, 71, 75
  • Arthur, Robert, 75
  • Arthur’s, 63, 69–71, 144, 145, 148, 256
  • Arts Club, the, 294
  • Ashburton, Dunning, Lord, 115
  • “Asiatic Sundays” at the Athenæum, 280
  • Athenæum Club, the, 148, 162, 164, 256, 275–283;
  • Aubrey, Lieutenant-Colonel, 188
  • Aylott, Sir James, 222–223
  • Bachelors’ Club, the, 221
  • Badminton Club, the, 192
  • Baker, Mr., Master of Lloyd’s, 21
  • Baldwin Club, the, 189
  • Banderet, Henry, 104, 106
  • Bath Club, the, 163
  • Bathurst, Benjamin, 122
  • Batson’s, 9
  • Beaconsfield, the Earl of, 278–279
  • Beauclerc, Topham, 265, 266
  • Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, 66, 67, 165
  • Bedford Coffee-house, the, 28
  • Bedford, Francis, Duke of, 29
  • Beefsteak Club, the first, 19;
  • Beefsteaks, the Sublime Society of, 37–53, 87, 131
  • Belfast, Lord, 304
  • Bentinck, George (“Big Ben”), 306–307
  • Bentinck, Lord George, 160–161
  • Bentinck, Lord Henry, 188
  • Bessborough, the Earl of, 112, 114
  • Black, William, 235, 236
  • Blackballing, 160, 164
  • “Bloods,” 13
  • Bold Bucks, the, 17
  • Bolingbroke, Viscount, 26
  • Boodle’s (formerly the Savoir Vivre), 63–69, 98, 145, 165
  • Booth, Edwin, 295
  • Boswell, James, 267
  • Bourke, the Hon. Algernon, 50, 85, 86
  • Bowes, the late Mr., 56
  • Brackley, Lord, 160–161
  • Bridge, introduction of, 188
  • Bright, John, 235
  • British Coffee-house, the, 12
  • Broadhurst, Mr., 21
  • Brook Club, the (New York), 34
  • Brooks’s, 63, 98, 99–122, 129, 145, 189, 256
  • Brooks, the proprietor of the club-house, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104
  • Brothers’ Club, the, 26
  • Brougham, Lord, 120–121, 188
  • Brummell, Beau, 78–80, 109–110, 172
  • Bucks, the Society of, 33
  • Burke, Edmund, 266
  • Burlington Fine Arts Club, the, 274–275
  • Button’s, 3, 24, 27
  • Byerley, Thomas, 12
  • Byng, the Hon. Frederick, 121–122
  • Byron, Lord, 283
  • Caledonian, 256
  • Cambridge Beefsteak Club, the, 55
  • Camelford, Lord, and the “blood,” 13–14
  • Candidates for election, 158
  • Cardigan, Lord, 307–308
  • Carlton Club, the, 147, 148, 223–225, 256
  • Castle Tavern, the, kept by Belcher and Spring, 32
  • Cavalry Club, the, 255
  • Cavendish, the Hon. Henry, 272–273
  • Chapter Coffee-house, the, 9, 10, 11
  • Chatterton, 10
  • Chelmsford Beefsteak Club, the, 54
  • Cheshire Cheese, the, 4–7
  • Child’s, 3, 9
  • Churchill, Lord Randolph, 224
  • Cibber, Colley, 76
  • Cider Cellar, the, 31
  • City Pickwick Club, the, 20
  • Clarke, Chamberlain, 8
  • Clarke, Sir Edward, 20
  • Club, the first, 1;
    • evolution of the, 2;
    • increase in the number of clubs, 135;
    • change in club-life, 136;
    • opposition to improvements, 138;
    • washed silver in change, and other customs, 145;
    • smoking in clubs, 146;
    • strangers visiting clubs, 147;
    • bedrooms for members, 151;
    • increased comfort, 151–152;
    • clubs of to-day and their members, 156;
    • elections and committees, 157;
    • hall-porters, 174;
    • porters’ boxes, 177;
    • late sittings, 178;
    • the Garrick the “latest” club, 183;
    • foreign clubs taxed, 185;
    • sporting-club-men, 191;
    • decrease in drinking, 192;
    • club-men and their foibles, 195–203;
    • restaurant clubs, 205;
    • registration of clubs, 207
  • Club-man, the modern, 139
  • Cocoa-tree, the, 1, 3, 63, 128–132
  • Coffee-houses, 1, 2, 3
  • Colenso, Bishop, 279
  • Committee, the club, 158
  • Conservative Club, the, 133, 147, 227–228
  • Constitutional Club, the, 236
  • Cooking, club, 170
  • Cosmopolitan Club, the, 267–268
  • Coventry, Lord, 215
  • Coventry House, 217
  • Crockford, Benjamin, 190, 228–232, 254
  • Crockford’s, 94, 185, 186, 190–191, 229–232
  • Croker, John Wilson, 275
  • Crown and Anchor Tavern, 35
  • Cunningham, Colonel, 13
  • Curtis, Sir William, 302–303
  • Daffy Club, the, 32
  • Damer, Colonel, 232
  • Daniel’s, 9
  • Davies’s “Life of Garrick” quoted, 76
  • Defoe, Daniel, 19
  • Devonshire Club, the, 228–232
  • Devil Tavern, the, 1
  • Dickens and the George and Vulture, 20;
    • his chair, 278;
    • reconciliation with Thackeray, 280
  • Dickens Club, the, 7
  • Digby, Sir Kenelm, 31
  • Dilettanti Society, 256, 257–263
  • Disraeli, Isaac, 278
  • Dryden, John, 24, 25, 28
  • Dudley, Lord, 35
  • Duff, Captain William, 244
  • Durnford, Bishop, 279
  • East India United Service Club, the, 254–255
  • Eccentric members, 198
  • Eclipse, the race-horse, 297–298
  • Edinburgh Club, the, 59
  • Edward VII, King, 165, 204, 205, 219
  • Edwards, Mr., and the introduction of coffee-houses, 18
  • Elections, 157
  • Ellice, Edward, 232
  • Elliot, Lettsom, 282
  • Essex Head, the, 8
  • Estcourt, Richard, 19
  • Etiquette at coffee-houses, 17–18
  • Evans’s, 31–32
  • “Everlasting,” the, 34
  • Fines, 182
  • Fitzgerald, George Robert, 115–118
  • FitzHarris, Lord, 302
  • Foote, Samuel, 28–29
  • Forrest’s, 3
  • Fox, Charles James, 102, 106, 111, 120, 125–127
  • Fox Club, the, 124, 126–127
  • Francis, Sir Philip, 110–111
  • Fraser, Sir William, 283
  • Gambling, French and English, 185–187
  • Gambling clubs, 185–188
  • Gardner, Mr. John, 19
  • Garraway’s Coffee-house, 3, 12, 21–23
  • Garrick, David, 28–29, 37, 265, 288–290
  • Garrick Club, the, 148, 183, 193, 256, 285–294
  • Garth, Dr. Samuel, 271
  • Garway, Thomas, 22
  • Gay, 26
  • Gayner, the late Mr., 65–68
  • George III, King, 3
  • George IV, King, 99, 111–114, 133, 171, 173, 302–303
  • George and Vulture, the first coffee-house, 18, 19, 20
  • George’s, 9
  • Giles’s, 3
  • Gladstone, W. E., 107, 166, 239, 257
  • Golden Fleece Club, the, 34
  • Goldsmid, Sir Julian, 219
  • Goldsmith, Oliver, 10, 266
  • Goosetree’s, 98, 109
  • Graham’s Club, 188
  • Granville, Lord, 108
  • Great Bottle Club, the, 33
  • Greaves, Samuel, 8
  • Grecian, the, 3
  • Green, John, 31–32
  • Greville, Charles, 160–161
  • Gronow’s “Reminiscences” quoted, 137
  • Groom’s, 19
  • Guards’ Club, the, 148, 253–254, 256
  • Guests, 147, 148
  • Gurney, Hudson, 58
  • Gwynn, Nell, 247
  • Haggis Club, the, 59
  • Haines, Thomas, 27–28
  • Hall-porter, the, 174
  • Hamlin’s, 9
  • Hammond, Mr., 11
  • Hawkins, Sir John, 265
  • Hayward, Abraham, 279
  • Heidegger, John James, 71–74
  • Hell-Fires, the, 17, 19
  • Hill, Thomas, 292–293
  • Hogarth, William, 19, 29, 37, 289
  • Hole-in-the-Wall Club, the, 57
  • Hood, Tom, quoted, 150
  • Hook, Theodore, quoted, 143, 179, 189, 210, 279–280
  • House-dinners, 145, 146
  • Humbugs, the, 33
  • Hunlock, Sir Hugh, 215
  • Hurst, Thomas, 289
  • Irving, Sir Henry, 20, 281
  • Isthmian Club, the, 219–220
  • “Je ne sçai quoi” Club, the, 33
  • Jerdan, William, 42
  • Jockey Club, the, 297–299
  • Johnson, Dr., 2, 4, 5–8, 149, 151, 221, 265, 289
  • Johnson Club, the, 6–7
  • Jonathan’s, 3, 12
  • Jones, Inigo, 29
  • Jonson, Ben, 1, 4
  • Junior Athenæum Club, the, 256
  • Junior Carlton Club, the, 147, 173, 226–227, 256
  • Junior Constitutional Club, the, 236
  • Junior Naval and Military Club, the, 253
  • Junior United Service Club, the, 244, 251, 256
  • Kemble, John, 32, 49
  • Kemble, John Philip, 288
  • King of Clubs, the, 34
  • Kinglake, Alexander, 281
  • King’s Coffee-house, 29
  • King’s Head, the, 7
  • Kit-Kat Club, the, 270
  • Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 29–30
  • Lade, Sir John, 126
  • Lambs’ Club, the (New York), 296
  • Landseer, Sir Edwin, 281
  • Late sittings, 178
  • Lawn-market Club, the, 59
  • Leech, John, 20
  • Leinster, the Duke of, 39
  • Lely, Sir Peter, 29
  • Lewis, T., 25
  • Lindley, Ozias, 57
  • Literary Club, the, 263–267
  • Little-man’s Coffee-house, 12
  • Lloyd’s Coffee-house, 21
  • Locker, Frederick, 63
  • London Coffee-house, the, 20
  • Lotus Club, the, 220
  • Low, David, 30, 31
  • Lowther, Sir James, 9
  • Lying Club, the, 33
  • Macaulay, Lord, 278
  • M’Clean, the highwayman, 94
  • Macklin, Charles, 288
  • Mackreth, Sir Robert, 91, 129
  • Maison Dorée Club, the, 206
  • Malcolm, Sir John, 212–213
  • Manning, Cardinal, 279
  • Marlborough Club, the, 147, 218–219
  • Martindale, John, 77
  • Mathews, Charles, 286–287
  • Mermaid Tavern, the, 1
  • Miles and Evans’s, 98
  • Military clubs, 240
  • Mills, Pemberton, 80
  • Mitre Tavern, 6, 8
  • Montagu, the Duke of, 72–74
  • Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 270–271
  • Montfort, Lord, 90–91, 94
  • Morris, Charles, 47–50
  • “Mug-house clubs,” 24
  • Murphy, Arthur, 290
  • Nando’s, 3
  • Napoleon III, the Emperor, 82, 248–249
  • National Club, the, 237–238
  • National Liberal Club, the, 195, 236
  • National Sporting Club, the, 32
  • Naval and Military Club, the, 251–253, 256
  • Norfolk, Charles, eleventh Duke of, 46–50, 131–132
  • Northumberland, the Countess of, 77
  • North’s, 9
  • Octagon rooms at St. James’s Club, 217;
    • at Naval and Military, 252
  • October Club, the, 34
  • Odd Fellows’ Club, 33
  • O’Kelly, Colonel, 298–299
  • Oldfield, Mrs., 290–291
  • Old Man’s Coffee-house, 3, 12
  • Old Slaughter’s, 3
  • Orford, the Earl of (Admiral Russell), 31
  • Oriental Club, the, 211–215
  • Orleans Club, the, 221
  • Orsay, Count d’, 82, 86
  • Osborne, Bernal, 236
  • “Ourselves,” 7
  • Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, 26
  • Oxford and Cambridge Club, the, 148, 238–239, 240
  • Oxford and Cambridge New University Club, the, 245
  • Ozinda’s, 3
  • Past Overseers’ Society, the, 59–62
  • Pattison, Mark, 278
  • Payn, James, 235, 236
  • Peele’s Coffee-house, 8
  • Pelham, Henry, 94
  • Percival, the late Mr., 83, 84
  • “Percy Anecdotes,” the, 13
  • Percy Coffee-house, the, 12
  • Permanent official, the, 195–197
  • Piazza Coffee-house, the, 30
  • Pilgrims, the Society of, 33
  • Pinche’s School, Dr., 20
  • Pitt, William, 99
  • Players’ Club, the (New York), 295–296
  • Pon’s Coffee-house, 14
  • Pope, Alexander, 25, 26
  • Porters’ boxes, 177
  • Portland Club, the, 188
  • Pratt’s, 36
  • Prince of Wales Coffee-house, the, 13
  • Pulteney, William (afterwards Earl of Bath), 89–90
  • Purl Drinkers, the, 33
  • Queen’s Arms, the, 8
  • Queensberry, the Marquis of, 230–231
  • Radcliffe, Dr., 29–30
  • Raggett, father and son, 77, 78, 83, 222
  • Raikes, Dandy, 120
  • Rainbow, the (now Groom’s), 19
  • Raleigh Club, the, 192
  • Reform Club, the, 232–236
  • Restaurant clubs, 204
  • Revett, Nicholas, 258
  • Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 265
  • Rich, Henry, 37
  • Rivers, Lord, 93
  • Robertson, Joseph, 13
  • Robin’s, 12
  • Rogers, Samuel, 35
  • Rosee, Pasqua, 18, 19
  • Roxburghe Club, the, 268–269
  • Royal Cork Yacht Club, the, 308
  • Royal Exchange, the, 11, 12
  • Royal Naval Club, 255
  • Royal Societies’ Club, the, 273–274
  • Royal Society Club, the, 272–273
  • Royal Thames Yacht Club, the, 310
  • Royal Yacht Squadron, 299–308
  • Rules and regulations, 167–170
  • Rump Steak Club, 7
  • St. Dunstan’s, 7
  • St. James’ Club, the, 184, 215–218, 256
  • St. James’ Coffee-house, 3
  • St. Leger, Colonel, 119–120
  • Sala, George Augustus, his definition of “club,” 135, 235, 294
  • Salisbury, Lord, 226
  • Salting, George, 134
  • Samsonic Society, the, 33
  • Savage Club, the, 294
  • Savile Club, the, 284
  • Savoir Vivre, the (now Boodle’s), 65
  • Sawdust Club, 7
  • Scott, General, 94–95
  • Scriblerus Club, the, 26
  • Selwyn, George, 95–97, 109, 112–114, 130–131
  • Shakespeare, 1, 4
  • Shand, the hall-porter at the Turf Club, 174
  • Shenstone, 9
  • Sheridan, R. B., 30, 111–115, 133
  • Silver, change given in washed, 145
  • Simpson, William, 6
  • Smith, Bobus, 34–35
  • Smith, Major-General (“Hyder Ali”), 111
  • Smith, Tippoo, 111
  • Smoking in taverns and clubs, 4, 146, 281, 283–284
  • Smyrna, the, 3, 12
  • Snuff-boxes formerly in clubs, 146
  • Soaping Club, the Edinburgh, 59
  • “Social Villagers,” the, 34
  • Soyer, Alexis, 233–235
  • Spencer, Herbert, 282–283
  • Spenser, Edmund, 34
  • Spring, Samuel, 173
  • Steele, Sir Richard, 19, 75, 271
  • Stepney, Sir Thomas, 119–120, 171
  • Stewart, Admiral Keith, 115–117
  • Strangers in clubs, 147
  • Stuart, James, 258
  • Sunday at clubs, 194
  • Supper clubs, 207
  • Sussex, the Duke of, 38–41
  • Swift, Jonathan, 19, 25, 26, 27
  • Sydney, Viscount, 100
  • Sylvester, Joshua, 4
  • Tatham, Dr., 279
  • Tatler, the, quoted, 23, 75
  • Taylor, William, 58
  • Taxes on club funds in France and Germany, 185
  • Temperance, growth of, 193–194
  • Thackeray quoted, 150, 211, 212, 235, 278, 280
  • Thatched House Club, the, 131–134
  • Thatched House Tavern, the, 256, 260, 263, 300
  • The Club, 263–267
  • Thespian Club, the, 33
  • Thornhill, Sir James, 30
  • Thrale, Henry, 8, 265
  • Tobacco-box belonging to Past Overseers of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 59–62
  • Todd, Harry, 6
  • Tom’s, 2, 3, 12, 24, 28
  • Tourville, Admiral de, 31
  • Travellers’ Club, the, 148, 162, 163, 209–211, 256
  • Truby’s, 3
  • True Blue Club, the, 56
  • Turf Club, the, 162, 174, 181, 184, 218, 256, 263
  • Tyrawley, Lord, and the Frenchmen, 14–17
  • Ude, Louis Eustache, 230, 231, 232
  • Union Club, the, 222
  • United Service Club, the (at first the General Military Club), 240–244, 251, 256
  • United University Club, the, 239, 240
  • Uxbridge, Lord, 301–302
  • Vernon, Admiral, 21
  • Visitors in clubs, 147
  • Walpole, Horace, quoted, 77, 87, 128, 129, 259
  • Walpole, Sir Robert, 21, 89–90
  • “Water Club,” the, 309
  • Watier’s Club, 171–172
  • Webster, Sir Whistler, 77, 83
  • Wellington, the Duke of, 86
  • Wellington Club, the, 222
  • West, Benjamin, 288
  • West, James, 31
  • West, Thomas (proprietor of Tom’s), 24–25
  • Wet Paper Club, the, 11
  • Whistler, 53
  • White, Francis, 71
  • White, Mrs., 71, 74, 75
  • White’s, 2, 3, 50, 69–71, 74–98, 99, 129, 144, 145, 146, 165, 169, 189, 191, 256
  • Wilberforce, Samuel, 109
  • Wilbraham, Roger, 110–111
  • Wilkes, John, 19, 37
  • Will’s, 3, 12, 24, 25, 28
  • Windham, William, 220–221
  • Windham Club, the, 220
  • Yarborough, Lord, 302, 305
  • York, Frederick, Duke of, 99, 119–120
  • Young Man’s Coffee-house, 3, 12
  • Zoffany, 29