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.
A new document has emerged showing that the prolific English novelist and short-story writer Beatrice Kean Seymour, born in Clapham into a working-class family, spoke at the Whitefriars’ 1930 Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero.
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Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough (1871–1934), was a British soldier and Conservative politician.
He spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 27th November 1903 on the subject of ‘A Citizen’s Duty to the Empire’. Prior of the Day, on that occasion, was his cousin and close friend, Friar Winston Churchill.
