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Mark Twain Returns to the Whitefriars ClubOn 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
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Sir George Trevelyan
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1838–1928), was a politician, a statesman and the author of the several historical works, as well as the biography of his uncle, Lord Macaulay.
Trevelyan was club guest at the Annual Dinner at the Trocadero of 19th February 1904, when he spoke on the topic of ‘History Writing’. His fellow guest on that occasion was Guglielmo Marconi.
