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.
Only four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) is the celebrated author of many adventure novels, including The Lost World and The Poison Belt, and the creator of the hugely popular detective stories of Sherlock Holmes.
He spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 11th January 1901 on ‘The Art of Fiction’
He was a guest of the club on 22nd February 1907 (Annual Dinner at the Trocadero) and 13th December 1907 (Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero).