Bram Stoker speaks at the club
Bram Stoker gives a talk on ‘The State Censorship of Novels’ at the Whitefriars Club. He will later attend further dinners as a guest.
George Gissing, the celebrated author of the novel New Grub Street, which satirizes the literary and journalistic world of 1880s London, attended the 20th April 1900 Dinner as a guest of Friar Edward Clodd.

President Roosevelt was invited to speak at the Whitefriars Club, but, replying from Naivasha, British East Africa, on 6th August 1909 to the Honorary Secretary of the Club, Friar Joseph Shaylor, he wrote…
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