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The Oriental Club in London is a private members' club that was established in 1824. [1] Charles Graves described it in 1963 as fine in quality as White's but with the space of infinitely larger clubs . [ 2 ]
When the Oriental Club of London was formed in 1824, membership of the Royal Asiatic Society was stated as one of the four qualifications for membership of the new club. [ 8 ] Due to the nature of the society's close connection with the British Empire in the east, much of the work originating with the society has been focused on topics ...
Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78453-818-7. Thévoz, Seth Alexander (2022). Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs. London: Robinson/Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-47214-646-5. Timbs, John (1866). Clubs and Club Life in London ...
Reform Club, a prominent club in London since the early 19th century. A gentlemen's club is a private social club of a type originally established by old boy networks, typically from Britain's upper classes from the 17th century onwards.
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Panckridge writes that the Bengal Club predates many important social clubs in London, though the model for the club was the Oriental Club in London (founded in 1824). The idea for the Bengal Club was conceived of in a meeting of notable Englishmen at the Town Hall of Calcutta in 1826, led by Lieutenant-Colonel (later Lieutenant-General) John ...
The Travellers Club: A Bicentennial History. London: Libanus Press. ISBN 978-0948021930. Black, Barbara (2012). A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-2016-4. FitzRoy, Sir Almeric (1927). The History of the Travellers Club. London: George Allen & Unwin.
The East India Club is a gentlemen's club founded in 1849 and situated at 16, St James's Square in London. The full title of the club is East India, Devonshire, Sports and Public Schools' Club due to mergers with other clubs. The club was originally founded for officers of the East India Company, and its first Patron was Prince Albert.