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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On 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 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.
