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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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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Sir Henry Newbolt (1862–1938) was a poet, novelist and historian, best remembered today for his poem ‘Vitaï Lampada’.
He spoke three times at the Whitefriars Club: on 1st May 1903, on 26th February 1904 (‘The Relations of Editors and Contributors’) and 10th March 1905.
