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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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.
