History Corner
Serial SpeakersAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
Read moreAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
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In July 1890, Oscar Wilde called at the Whitefriars Club’s rooms at Anderton’s Hotel and had a long talk about Dorian Gray with Friar Sidney Low, then editor of the St James’s Gazette.
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Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) was an acclaimed poet, short-story writer and novelist, best remembered today for his stories for children, including The Three Mulla Mulgars (1910, later retitled The Three Royal Monkeys).
De la Mare spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 23rd March 1923 on the subject of ‘The Personal Note in Literature’. He also attended as a guest on 7th May 1931.
