History Corner
The Immortal Dinner of 1872Only four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
Read moreOnly 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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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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Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) was the author of a wide range of plays, essays and novels, and is best known today for the classic comic work Three Men in a Boat.
Jerome K. Jerome appears to have spoken at the Whitefriars Club for the first time on 4th October 1901, on the topic of ‘Humour in Literature’. He returned to the club almost twenty-five years later, delivering a speech on ‘Class Warfare’ on 16th October 1925.
