London Clubs: Their History & Treasures

by Ralph Nevill

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];
  • Junior, [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];
  • Junior, [256]
• 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];
  • the present, [52], [53], [184]
• 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]

THE END

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• Transcriber’s Notes:
  • Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
  • Typographical errors were silently corrected.
  • Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.