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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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Past speakers and events
Members can access the full archive of past events and reports from the inaugural dinner in February 1868 through to this day. Please note that this archive is a work in progress: some of the information is incomplete or unavailable, and some of the names and dates are only conjectural. We will keep adding more material as it becomes available or comes to light. If you are a member, you can also read and download the reports from the Whitefriars Journal (for the years 1900–23) and from The Whitefriar (2001 onwards) by clicking here.
If you have any photographs, documents or personal recollections that would enrich this archive, we would love to hear from you. If you notice any errors, please get in touch with us.
Here is a selection of past events and reports.
Recent events
25th June 2025
The 2025 Pilgrimage: Champagne Afternoon Tea at the Oriental Club
On a glorious afternoon of late June, the Friars turned Pilgrims and made their way to Stratford Place for a visit to the Oriental Club, one of the most prestigious clubland institutions, founded in 1824. Meeting time was 16:00, with a much-needed we…
28th May 2025
The Annual General Meeting Dinner with special guest Lady Carnarvon
A one-minute silence was observed before dinner in memory of Friar Richard Model and Friar Ivan Elliott. A short tribute to the late Friar Ivan Elliott was read by Friar Colin Smythe. Following a wonderful dinner in the drawing room of the Saville Cl…
30th April 2025
The Quentin Letts Dinner: ‘Nunc!’
On this rather warm spring evening, the Friars and their guests enjoyed a generous three-course dinner served in the Drawing Room of the Savile Club, followed by a speech by Quentin Letts. The Savile kitchens served chef’s specials – springtime lamb…
23rd April 2025
The Shakespeare Commemoration Dinner 2025
On the 23rd of April 2025 we ventured south of the river to the Globe Theatre complex to honour William Shakespeare in his playhouse on his birthday. We gathered at the Swan Restaurant’s Balcony Room (but not that balcony) overlooking the Thames and…
Events archive
2020s
The 2025 Pilgrimage: Champagne Afternoon Tea at the Oriental Club
Prior of the day: Friar Tom McClintock
Venue: The Oriental Club
Date: 25/06/2025
The Annual General Meeting Dinner with special guest Lady Carnarvon
Speaker: Lady Carnarvon
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Drawing Room, the Savile Club
Date: 28/05/2025
The Quentin Letts Dinner: ‘Nunc!’
Speaker: Quentin Letts
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Drawing Room, The Savile
Date: 30/04/2025
The Shakespeare Commemoration Dinner 2025
Speaker: Dr Chris Laoutaris
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Balcony Room, The Swan
Date: 23/04/2025
‘The Dangerous New World We Live in’
Speaker: Edward Lucas
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club (Ball Room)
Date: 26/03/2025
Meet the Whitefriars
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club (Drawing Room)
Date: 06/03/2025
The 157th Anniversary Dinner with special guest Lord Patten
Speaker: Lord Patten
Prior of the day: Dele Ogun
Venue: The Savile Club (Ball Room)
Date: 26/02/2025
‘The Sound of Music’
Speaker: Wasfi Kani
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club (Ball Room)
Date: 29/01/2025
Christmas Get-Together at Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 11/12/2024
‘An Uneasy Inheritance’
Speaker: Polly Toynbee
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club (Ball Room)
Date: 27/11/2024
‘Making the Weather’
Speaker: Sir Vernon Bogdanor
Prior of the day: Geoff Gudgion
Venue: The Savile (Ball Room)
Date: 30/10/2024
‘From Biba to Bond’
Speaker: Madeline Smith
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/09/2024
A Pilgrimage to India
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The V&A and Bombay Brasserie, Gloucester Road
Date: 08/06/2024
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: Victoria Stevens
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/05/2024
‘An Italian Education’
Speaker: Tim Parks
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/04/2024
‘Britain and India: A Journey’
Speaker: HE Vikram Doraiswami
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club (The Ball Room)
Date: 27/03/2024
‘How to Make Britain a Better Place’
Speaker: Gina Miller
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club (The Ball Room)
Date: 28/02/2024
‘An Iconic Stage and Screen Actor’
Speaker: Dame Siân Phillips
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/01/2024
Fundraising Event with an Italian Flavour
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/11/2023
‘A Poet’s ‘palate affairs’: Keats, Food and Drink’
Speaker: Lucasta Miller
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/10/2023
‘Trials and Tribulations: From the Bar to the Bailey’
Speaker: Judge Wendy Joseph
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/09/2023
Pilgrimage to Reading Archives
Speaker: Victoria Stevens
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 18/09/2023
Annual General Meeting with a talk by Friar Hüseyin Özer
Speaker: Hüseyin Özer
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/05/2023
‘The Georgians: Great Deeds and Great Misdeeds’
Speaker: Prof. Penelope Corfield
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/04/2023
‘The Celts, A Sceptical History: Who Were the Celts, Really?’
Speaker: Simon Jenkins
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/03/2023
‘Freedom to Publish? At Home and Abroad’
Speaker: Simon Littlewood
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/02/2023
‘An English Monuments Man at Work: Douglas Cooper in 1944/46’
Speaker: Adrian Clark
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/01/2023
Middle Eastern-Themed Evening
Speaker: Diana Fletcher
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/11/2022
‘Rhyming Translation: The Impossible’
Speaker: Timothy Adès
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/10/2022
‘Her Writing Career’
Speaker: Susan Lewis
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/09/2022
AGM with a talk on E.L. Blanchard by Club Archivist Friar Colin Smythe
Speaker: Colin Smythe
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/05/2022
‘Death by Shakespeare’
Speaker: Kathryn Harkup
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/04/2022
‘His new novel, about to be printed: “George and the Briton”’
Speaker: Commander Michael Codner
Prior of the day: Jean-François Dor
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/03/2022
‘Her Career’
Speaker: Alison Steadman
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/02/2022
‘A History of Film Festivals’
Speaker: Phillip Bergson
Prior of the day: Jean-François Dor
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/01/2022
Christmas Spirited Dinner
Speaker: The Whitefriars Sextet: La Vigar, Cal Godlee, Julian Godlee, Chris Vigar, Kerry Turner, Lorna Perry
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/11/2021
‘Saving La Serenissima: 50 Years of Venice In Peril’
Speaker: Jonathan Keates
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/10/2021
‘His Latest Book: “Pure Evil”’
Speaker: Geoffrey Wansell
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/09/2021
Summer Excursion to Wimbledon
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: Wimbledon Village
Date: 25/08/2021
Committee Dinner
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: Savile Club
Date: 26/05/2021
Italian Wine Evening
Speaker: Andrea Franchetti
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Date: 28/04/2021
Annual General Meeting (via Zoom)
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Date: 24/03/2021
A Christmas Zoomfest
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Date: 01/12/2020
‘Has Centrist Politics Disappeared?’
Speaker: Sir Vince Cable
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club and online (via Zoom)
Date: 23/09/2020
A Virtual Toast to the Whitefriars Club
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Date: 27/05/2020
Annual General Meeting (via Zoom)
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Date: 22/04/2020
‘Living to Write and Writing for a Living’
Speaker: Enrico Franceschini
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/02/2020
‘English Songs’
Speaker: Richard Stokes
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/01/2020
2010s
‘His Life as an Opera Singer (with demonstration)’
Speaker: Sir John Tomlinson
Prior of the day: Gary Kahn
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/11/2019
‘A Tale of Three Valleys (Yosemite, Napa and Cuckmere)’
Speaker: Nigel Newton
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/10/2019
Fun with Wines
Speaker: Robin Baum
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/09/2019
Pilgrimage to Syon House
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 31/07/2019
The Annual General Meeting Dinner: ‘Reminescences’
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/05/2019
‘What We Learn from History’
Speaker: Sir Antony Beevor
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/4/2019
‘Crossovers between Historical Biography and Popular Fiction’
Speaker: Lisa Hilton
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/03/2019
‘Screenwriting, Novels, Plays’
Speaker: Anthony McCarten
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/02/2019
‘The Importance of Writing and The Women’s Prize’
Speaker: Kate Mosse
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 30/01/2019
The Christmas Charity Evening: a concert in aid of the charity Three Peas
Speaker: Ian Ritchie and Rachel Verney
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/11/2018
‘His Latest Novel, Aftershocks’
Speaker: A.N. Wilson
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/10/2018
‘His Life in the House of Commons’
Speaker: Baron Lisvane of Blakemere
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 18/09/2018
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: Jeff Anderson
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/05/2018
‘His Book “A Fatherless People”’
Speaker: Dele Ogun
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/04/2018
‘His Career as a Royal Jeweller’
Speaker: Geoffrey Munn
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/03/2018
150th Anniversary dinner at the Palace of Westminster
Speaker: Lord Chartres
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Palace of Westminster
Date: 22/02/2018
‘His Career as a Barrister’
Speaker: Jerry Hayes
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/01/2018
The Christmas Charity Evening: Children in Distress
Speaker: Alasdair Barron
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/11/2017
‘What is the Second Church Estates Commissioner’
Speaker: Sir Anthony Baldry
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/10/2017
‘His Political Career’
Speaker: Sir Malcolm Rifkind
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/09/2017
Summer Excursion to Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill and Alexander Pope’s Grotto
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 01/08/2017
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: Jean-François Dor
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/05/2017
‘Keys to Success: 50 Secrets from a Business Maverick’
Speaker: John Timpson
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/04/2017
‘His latest book, “A Game of Spies“’
Speaker: Lord Ashdown
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/03/2017
‘His Political Career’
Speaker: Lord Astor of Hever
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/02/2017
Tribute Evening to Mary Baum
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/01/2017
‘Sexual Health and HIV’
Speaker: Lord Collins of Highbury
Prior of the day: Jean-François Dor
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/11/2016
‘Margaret Thatcher’
Speaker: Charles Moore
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/10/2016
‘The Five Revolutions in Publishing’
Speaker: Stephen Page
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/09/2016
‘Himself – Britain’s favourite Venetian celebrity’
Speaker: Francesco da Mosto
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/04/2016
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: George Metcalfe
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/03/2016
‘A Multi-Faceted Life’
Speaker: Stephen Barber
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/02/2016
‘Journalism’
Speaker: Nicholas Coleridge
Prior of the day: George Metcalfe
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/01/2016
‘North Korea’
Speaker: Lord Alton
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/11/2015
‘Life after Westminster’
Speaker: Ann Widdecombe
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/10/2015
‘Marriage to Stephen Hawking’
Speaker: Jane Hawking
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/09/2015
‘The Role of Germany in the Context of Europe and the EU after the Second World War’
Speaker: Tania Freiin von Uslar-Gleichen
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/05/2015
‘The Foundation of the Bookshops’
Speaker: Tim Waterstone
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/04/2015
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: Sir Neil Thorne
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/03/2015
‘The First Dukes of Wellington and of Marlborough’
Speaker: Field-Marshal the Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank
Prior of the day: Colin Smythe
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/02/2015
‘On Being a PPS’
Speaker: Desmond Swayne
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/01/2015
‘Diplomacy in the Arab World’
Speaker: Stephen Day
Prior of the day: George Raine
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/11/2014
‘On Being an Agony Aunt’
Speaker: Irma Kurtz
Prior of the day: Alessandro Gallenzi
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/10/2014
‘Stories from the Falklands’
Speaker: Major-General Julian Thompson
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/09/2014
Charity Dinner at the Sofra Restaurant, Covent Garden
Speaker: Emirhan Yorulmazlar
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: Sofra Restaurant
Date: 14/05/2014
‘Reflections on Wilkie Collins, Clubmanship and the Art of Biography’
Speaker: Andrew Lycett
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/04/2014
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: George Metcalfe
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/03/2014
‘An Academic in the Media’
Speaker: Prof. Ian Fells
Prior of the day: George Raine
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/02/2014
‘The End of the Book as We Know It?’
Speaker: Alessandro Gallenzi
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 29/01/2014
Informal December Lunch at Sofra, Covent Garden
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: Sofra Restaurant
Date: 09/12/2013
‘Venice’
Speaker: John Julius Norwich
Prior of the day: Neil Thorne
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/11/2013
‘On Finding the Remains of King Richard III’
Speaker: Prof. John Ashdown-Hill
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/10/2013
‘Hot Dogs and Cocktails’
Speaker: Peter Conradi
Prior of the day: George Metcalfe
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/09/2013
‘His Career in the Arts and in Art Administration’
Speaker: Peter Kyle
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/05/2013
The Club Glee: ‘Evening of Light Entertainment, Roast Beef and Humour’
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/04/2013
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Venue: The Oriental Club
Date: 20/03/2013
‘The Armed Forces and Their Attitude to Overseas Conflict’
Speaker: Lord Stirrup
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/02/2013
‘“That Woman” and Ernest Simpson’
Speaker: Anne Sebba
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/01/2013
Excursion to the Globe Theatre: Platform play-reading of: ‘The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke’
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Globe Theatre
Date: 20/01/2013
‘The Multifarious Activities of Today’s Navy’
Speaker: Revd Gordon Warren
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/11/2012
‘Stories of Her Time Working for Sir John Betjeman, and from Her Time as a Blue Badge Guide’
Speaker: Susan Howe
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 31/10/2012
‘The City of London School for Girls and City Education’
Speaker: Diana Vernon
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/09/2012
‘A Mozart Rondo’
Speaker: Sir Thomas Allen
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/05/2012
‘A Is for Alcohol’
Speaker: Mark Easton
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/04/2012
The Annual General Meeting Dinner (with Wine Tasting)
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/03/2012
‘Alan Clark’s Diaries and Ion Trewin’s Biography’
Speaker: Ion Trewin
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/02/2012
Shelley Katz in Concert with Diana Gilchrist
Speaker: Shelley Katz and Diana Gilchrist
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/01/2012
‘Childwatch and Childline’
Speaker: Esther Rantzen
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 29/11/2011
Dinner at the Sofra Restaurant Courtesy of Hüseyin Özer
Speaker: Ünal Çeviköz
Prior of the day: Judy Douglas-Boyd
Venue: Sofra Restaurant
Date: 18/10/2011
‘My Time in Afghanistan’
Speaker: Lt Col. Christopher Ghika
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/09/2011
‘Recreating History’
Speaker: Rosemary Anne Sisson
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 17/05/2011
‘A Music Technologist’
Speaker: Shelley Katz
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/04/2011
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 17/03/2011
‘Politics’
Speaker: Lord Falconer
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/02/2011
‘The UK and the EU’
Speaker: Nigel Farage
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/01/2011
‘The World of Haute Cuisine’
Speaker: Anton Edelmann
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/11/2010
‘Prince William’s Mentor in the Household Cavalry’
Speaker: Major General Sebastian Roberts
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 20/10/2010
‘Globe Education’
Speaker: Patrick Spottiswoode
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/09/2010
‘Working as a Press Photographer’
Speaker: Mike Maloney
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/05/2010
Dinner at the RJS Restaurant (Wine Tasting Hosted by Nigel Wilkinson)
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: RJS Restaurant
Date: 22/04/2010
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/03/2010
‘The Problem of the EU’
Speaker: Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/02/2010
‘London and Its Mayors’
Speaker: Steven Norris
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/01/2010
2000s
Club History Night
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/11/2009
‘Thoughts on Parliament Today’
Speaker: Lord Maclennan of Rogart
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/10/2009
‘Legislation’
Speaker: Lord Strathclyde
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/09/2009
‘The Book Trade and Foyles’
Speaker: Bill Samuel
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 06/05/2009
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/03/2009
‘Founding Stonewall in the UK, and After’
Speaker: Simon Fanshawe
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/02/2009
Second Whitefriar Visit to the Archives
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Reading Archives
Date: 10/02/2009
Visit at the Menier Chocolate Factory: ‘A Little Night Music, by Stephen Sondheim’
Prior of the day: Jeff Anderson
Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
Date: 13/01/2009
‘Being Clerk to the Chamberlain of London’
Speaker: Murray Craig
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/11/2008
‘Twenty-Five Years as an MP’
Speaker: Peter Lilley
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 16/10/2008
‘Pontius Pilate’
Speaker: Ann Wroe
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/05/2008
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 18/03/2008
‘Working for Margaret Thatcher at No. 10’
Speaker: Sir Bernard Ingham
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/02/2008
The Forte Quartet, playing Mozart’s ‘Hunt’ Quartet
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/01/2008
‘Motor Racing’
Speaker: John Surtees
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/11/2007
Visit at the Menier Chocolate Factory: ‘Patrick Marber’s Dealer’s Choice, produced by Samuel West’
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: Menier Chocolate Factory
Date: 16/10/2007
Robert Hardy’s Second Visit to the Club
Speaker: Robert Hardy
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/05/2007
‘Domestic Violence’
Speaker: Baroness Scotland of Asthal
Prior of the day: Colin Smythe
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/04/2007
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 13/03/2007
An Evening of Magic and Glee
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 13/02/2007
‘UKIP’
Speaker: Frederick Forsyth
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 16/01/2007
‘Living to a Deadline’
Speaker: Michael Cole
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 28/11/2006
‘Her Political Career’
Speaker: Ann Widdecombe
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/10/2006
Dinner at the Charterhouse
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Charterhouse
Date: 19/09/2006
Dinner at the RJS Restaurant (Wine tasting Hosted by Nigel Wilkinson)
Prior of the day: Gerry O'Brien
Venue: RJS Restaurant
Date: 16/05/2006
‘A Private Cabaret of Fun’
Speaker: Nicholas Parsons
Prior of the day: Terry Playle
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/04/2006
A Star of the West End Stage
Speaker: Lord Brian Rix
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/03/2006
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 07/02/2006
Third Lunchtime Meeting
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 19/01/2006
Dinner
Speaker: Terry Playle
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/11/2005
‘Anecdotes of His Musical Career’
Speaker: Alistair Hume
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 18/10/2005
Second Lunchtime Meeting
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 13/10/2005
Members Only Dinner
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/09/2005
First Lunchtime Meeting
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/06/2005
Fleet Street Recollections
Speaker: Clive Bradley
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/04/2005
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Speaker: Gerry O'Brien, Leo Simmonds
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/03/2005
The Life and Times of a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate
Speaker: Eric Crowther
Prior of the day: Richard Model
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/02/2005
The Second ‘Evening of Magic’
Speaker: Alan Williams
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/01/2005
Gibraltar and Its Future
Speaker: Peter Isola
Prior of the day: George Raine
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 10/11/2004
Politics, Power Generation, Aviation Economics and Formula 1 Racing
Speaker: Lord Hesketh
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/10/2004
The Life of James Quin
Speaker: David Whitaker
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/09/2004
His Radio Life
Speaker: John Whitney
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/05/2004
‘Publishing Biography’
Speaker: Tom Rosenthal
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 20/04/2004
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 16/03/2004
“An Excellent Occasion”
Speaker: Angela Rippon
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Athenaeum
Date: 26/02/2004
‘A Taste of the Unusual’
Speaker: Andrei Eldon-Edington
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/01/2004
2004 Club visit to the Whiteknights Library, Reading University, to look at the Club’s Archives
Venue: Reading
Date: 21/01/2004
‘The First Evening of Magic’
Speaker: Alan Williams
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 09/12/2003
‘The History and Role of Black Rod’
Speaker: Sir Michael Willcocks
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: House of Lords
Date: 20/11/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Richard Baker
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 14/10/2003
Dinner
Speaker: John Bercow
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 23/09/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Philip J. Iles
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 08/05/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Nicholas Lyell
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 09/04/2003
The Annual General Meeting Dinner
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/03/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Lord John Freeman
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 12/02/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Tebbit
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Athenaeum
Date: 21/01/2003
Dinner
Speaker: Lord David Puttnam
Prior of the day: John Whitney
Venue: Royal Over-Seas League
Date: 11/12/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: Royal Over-Seas League
Date: 13/11/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Stanisław Komorowski
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/10/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Martin Townsend
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 17/09/2002
Club Visit to Beaulieu Abbey and the Motor Museum
Venue: Winchester
Date: 18/08/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Sheridan Morley
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Athenaeum
Date: 13/05/2002
Dinner (Wine tasting with the owner Nigel Wilkinson)
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: RJS Restaurant
Date: 17/04/2002
Annual General Meeting Dinner
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 13/03/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Janner of Braunstone
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/02/2002
Dinner
Speaker: Edward Garnier
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/01/2002
Christmas Glee
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 13/12/2001
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Ivan Lawrence
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: Royal Over-Seas League
Date: 30/10/2001
The Annual General Meeting (the ‘Crisis‘ AGM)
Prior of the day: Alan Williams
Venue: The Groucho Club
Date: 31/05/2001
Dinner
Speaker: Judge Michael Chism
Prior of the day: Simon Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 27/01/2001
Dinner
Speaker: Brian Milton
Prior of the day: Simon Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/10/2000
Dinner
Speaker: John Passmore
Prior of the day: Mary Baum
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/09/2000
1990s
Dinner
Speaker: Katie Adie
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 13/10/1999
The Annual General Meeting
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 31/03/1999
Dinner
Speaker: Edwina Currie
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 11/02/1999
Dinner
Speaker: John Suchet
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: Royal Over-Seas League
Date: 13/01/1999
Dinner
Speaker: Colonel John Blashford-Snell
Prior of the day: Bryan Lincoln
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/11/1998
Dinner
Speaker: Roy Hattersley
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 20/05/1998
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Kingsland
Prior of the day: Mark Westaway
Venue: Royal Over-Seas League
Date: 01/04/1998
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Archer
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 14/01/1998
The Book Prize Dinner: ‘Inside the Booker Prize’
Speaker: Martyn Goff
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 15/10/1997
‘What Makes a Best-Seller’
Speaker: Barry Turner
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 10/09/1997
‘Sex and Violence on Television’
Speaker: David Wickes
Prior of the day: Mark Westaway
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/06/1997
‘What Makes a Great Speech’
Speaker: Brian MacArthur
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: Reform Club
Date: 07/05/1997
‘Who Runs the Country’
Speaker: Michael Dobbs
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 19/09/1996
Friars’ Dinner
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 16/07/1996
The Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/04/1996
Dinner
Speaker: Ian McGeechan
Prior of the day: Keith Barwell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 21/11/1995
Ladies’ Banquet
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 29/06/1995
Dinner
Speaker: Judge Stephen Tumin
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: Naval & Military Club
Date: 24/05/1995
The Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/04/1995
The Twelfth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 26/01/1995
Dinner
Speaker: John Whitney
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 07/12/1994
Dinner
Speaker: Ian Wallace
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: Naval & Military Club
Date: 10/11/1994
Ladies’ Dinner at the Savile Club
Prior of the day: Patrick Janson-Smith
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 22/06/1994
‘Project for a Third Airport for London, Sited in the Thames Estuary’
Speaker: Lord Mowbray
Prior of the day: Colin Smythe
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 11/05/1994
The Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 20/04/1994
‘Chasing Robert Maxwell’s Missing Millions’
Speaker: Frank Field
Prior of the day: Hugh Freeman
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/11/1993
‘25 Years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland’
Speaker: Frank Delaney
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 21/10/1993
‘Press and Piracy’
Speaker: Donald Trelford
Prior of the day: Bill Heeps
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/05/1993
Dinner
Speaker: John Rae
Prior of the day: David Young
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 24/03/1993
The Eleventh Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 03/02/1993
‘Art in the Human Society and the Collapse of the “Modern Art” Market’
Speaker: Raymond Johnson
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 14/10/1992
‘Creative Technology’
Speaker: Stuart Devlin
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 20/05/1992
Dinner
Speaker: Frances Whitehead
Prior of the day: George Raine
Venue: The Savile Club
Date: 25/03/1992
The Tenth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 06/02/1992
New Members’ Evening: ‘The Game’s the Thing, or Is It?’
Speaker: Wayne "Buck" Shelford
Prior of the day: Keith Barwell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 27/11/1991
Dinner
Speaker: Michael Mansfield
Prior of the day: Mark Westaway
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 24/10/1991
Summer Excursion to Blenheim Palace
Venue: Woodstock
Date: 11/09/1991
Dinner
Speaker: Baruch Blumber
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 28/05/1991
The Annual General Meeting
Venue: The Bottlescrew
Date: 26/03/1991
Dinner
Speaker: Louis Bloom-Cooper
Prior of the day: Keith Barwell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 14/03/1991
The Ninth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 19/02/1991
‘The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality’
Speaker: Denis Richards
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 18/10/1990
Dinner
Speaker: Terry Pratchett
Prior of the day: Colin Smythe
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 22/05/1990
Dinner
Speaker: David Whitaker
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 03/04/1990
The Eighth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 30/01/1990
1980s
Dinner
Speaker: Colin Shaw
Prior of the day: John Whitney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 30/11/1989
Dinner
Speaker: John Gribben
Prior of the day: Cecil Davies
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 02/11/1989
‘The Cleveland Child-Abuse Inquiry’
Speaker: Justice Butler-Sloss
Prior of the day: Lord Havers
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 10/10/1989
Summer Excursion to Flitwick Manor and Woburn Abbey
Venue: Bedfordshire
Date: 14/09/1989
‘A Woman’s Place Is in the House… of Commons’
Speaker: Gillian Woolcocks
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 04/05/1989
‘Topical Aspects of Government Secrecy’
Speaker: Sir Patrick Mayhew
Prior of the day: Allan Lennon
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 14/03/1989
The Seventh Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 31/01/1989
‘Farewell to Fleet Street’
Speaker: Sir Frank Rogers
Prior of the day: Donald Trelford
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 22/11/1988
Dinner
Speaker: David Hooper
Prior of the day: Mark Westaway
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 27/09/1988
‘How to Interview American Presidents on Such Matters as Watergate’
Speaker: David Frost
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 03/05/1988
The Annual General Meeting
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 15/04/1988
Founding the Independent
Speaker: Andreas Whittam-Smith
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 29/03/1988
The Sixth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 29/02/1988
Dinner
Speaker: Rupert Allason
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 15/12/1987
Celebration Dinner
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 26/05/1987
The Fifth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 12/02/1987
Dinner
Speaker: David Steel
Prior of the day: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 25/11/1986
Dinner
Speaker: Stanley Adams
Prior of the day: Frederick King
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 14/10/1986
Dinner
Speaker: Max Hastings
Prior of the day: Donald Trelford
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 02/09/1986
Celebration Dinner
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 20/05/1986
Dinner
Speaker: Field-Marshal Sir Edwin Bramall
Prior of the day: David Floyd
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 25/03/1986
The Fourth Annual ‘Glee’ (Musical Evening)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 26/01/1986
The 75th Anniversary of Lieutenant Shackleton’s Speech to the Club
Speaker: Sir Peter Scott
Prior of the day: Lord Shackleton
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 17/12/1985
Dinner
Speaker: Robert Hardy
Prior of the day: Patrick Ide
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 17/10/1985
‘Halley’s Comet’
Speaker: Brian Harpur
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 13/06/1985
The Third Musical Evening (‘Glee’)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 29/01/1985
Dinner
Speaker: Alexander Macmillan
Prior of the day: David Whitaker
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 03/12/1984
‘Channel 4 – Two Years On’
Speaker: Jeremy Isaacs
Prior of the day: James Corsan
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 30/10/1984
‘When British Ambassador to Uruguay, He Was Kidnapped and Held for Eight Months by Terrorists’
Speaker: Sir Geoffrey Jackson
Prior of the day: Peter Bander
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 22/05/1984
Dinner
Speaker: General Sir John Hackett
Prior of the day: David Checketts
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 20/03/1984
The Second Musical Evening (‘Glee’)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 24/01/1984
Dinner
Speaker: Lee Huberner
Prior of the day: Donald Trelford
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 05/12/1983
Dinner
Speaker: Michael Havers
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 29/10/1983
Dinner
Speaker: Nigel Dempster
Prior of the day: Michael Rubinstein
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 10/05/1983
‘Opinions Are Free: Facts Are Sacred’
Speaker: Duke of Westminster
Prior of the day: Christopher Woodbridge
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 29/03/1983
Musical Evening: ‘A Song, A Story, An Anecdote’ (the first ‘Glee’)
Prior of the day: Laurence Cuckney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 18/01/1983
‘The Goldsmith – An Anachronism?’
Speaker: Stuart Devlin
Prior of the day: Ivan Elliott
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 30/11/1982
Dinner
Speaker: Baroness Phillips
Prior of the day: John Whitney
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 25/05/1982
Dinner
Speaker: James Goodson
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 26/01/1982
‘Appeal for the S.D.P.’
Speaker: Shirley Williams
Prior of the day: Brian Harpur
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 13/05/1981
‘The Government’s Industrial Policies’
Speaker: Justice Pain
Prior of the day: John Baker
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 26/03/1981
Dinner
Speaker: Dr Rhodes Boyson
Prior of the day: James Pitman
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 28/01/1981
Dinner
Speaker: James Lees
Prior of the day: Donald Trelford
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 13/11/1980
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Edward Pickering
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 27/03/1980
Dinner
Speaker: Ke Hua
Prior of the day: Michael Havers
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 31/01/1980
1970s
Dinner
Speaker: Lord George-Brown
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 22/11/1979
Dinner to commemorate the 100th birthday of Friar Sir Robert Mayer
Speaker: Sir Michael Swann
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: The Arts Club
Date: 31/05/1979
Dinner
Speaker: Keith Simpson
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 08/03/1979
Dinner
Speaker: Robert Morley
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 18/01/1979
Dinner
Speaker: Stuart Blanch
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 09/11/1978
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Melford Stevenson
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/05/1978
Ladies’ Luncheon at the Waldorf Hotel
Speaker: Katharine Whitehorn
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/04/1978
110th Anniversary Feast
Speaker: HRH Prince Philip
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: The Press Club
Date: 16/03/1978
Dinner
Speaker: William Douglas-Home
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/01/1978
Christmas Cocktail Party
Venue: Garrick Club
Date: 14/12/1977
Dinner
Speaker: Horace Cutler
Prior of the day: Leslie Farmiloe
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/11/1977
Dinner
Speaker: William Rees-Mogg
Prior of the day: Maurice Green
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/04/1977
‘Policing the Press’
Speaker: Noel S. Paul
Prior of the day: Hugh Cudlipp
Venue: The Mermaid Theatre
Date: 30/03/1977
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Robert Mark
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: The Mermaid Theatre
Date: 26/01/1977
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Bernard Miles
Prior of the day: Eric Hiscock
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/11/1976
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Robert Lusty
Prior of the day: Eric Hiscock
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/10/1976
Dinner in Honour of Friar Sir Robert Mayer’s 50th Anniversary as a White Friar
Speaker: Edward Heath
Prior of the day: Norman Collins
Venue: The Constitutional Club
Date: 19/05/1976
Dinner
Speaker: William Deedes
Prior of the day: Maurice Conyer
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/04/1976
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Goodman
Prior of the day: Michael Rubinstein
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/02/1976
Dinner
Speaker: Frank Muir
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/01/1976
‘The United World Colleges’
Speaker: Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: The Constitutional Club
Date: 04/12/1975
Dinner
Speaker: Woodrow Wyatt
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/10/1975
Dinner
Speaker: Airey Neave
Prior of the day: Brian Roberts
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/04/1975
Dinner
Speaker: John Colville
Prior of the day: Warrant Tute
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/03/1975
Dinner
Speaker: R.F. Farmer
Prior of the day: Maurice Creger
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/02/1975
Dinner
Speaker: Harold Harris
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/01/1975
Dinner
Speaker: Charles Wintour
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/11/1974
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Longford
Prior of the day: Norman Collins
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 31/10/1974
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Ralph Richardson
Prior of the day: Norman Collins
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/05/1974
Dinner
Speaker: James Cameron
Prior of the day: John Grist
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/04/1974
Dinner
Speaker: Tom Driberg
Prior of the day: Leo Simmonds
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/03/1974
Dinner
Speaker: Julian Symons
Prior of the day: Dudley Barker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 31/01/1974
Dinner
Speaker: Michael Foot
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/11/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Paul Jennings
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/10/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Basil Dean
Prior of the day: Dudley Barker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 31/05/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Hugh Cudlipp
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/04/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Robert Mayer
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/03/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Reginald Maudling
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 22/02/1973
Dinner
Speaker: George Gale
Prior of the day: George Hutchinson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/01/1973
Dinner
Speaker: Captain Jack Broome
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/11/1972
Dinner
Speaker: Anthony Power
Prior of the day: Rodney Bennett England
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/10/1972
Dinner
Speaker: HE Donal O’Sullivan
Prior of the day: Laurence Cotterell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/5/1972
Dinner
Speaker: Desmond Elliott
Prior of the day: Anthony Hern
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/4/1972
Dinner
Speaker: Godfrey Carter
Prior of the day: Judge Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/3/1972
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Basil Spence
Prior of the day: Lord Grenwood of Rossendale
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 21/01/1972
Dinner
Speaker: Stanley Barnet
Prior of the day: Dudley Barker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/11/1971
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Maybray-King
Prior of the day: James Pitman
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/10/1971
Dinner
Prior of the day: Judge Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/5/1971
Dinner
Speaker: R.L.P. Milburn
Prior of the day: Revd Dewi Morgan
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/04/1971
Dinner
Speaker: W.D. Barnetson
Prior of the day: Revd Dewi Morgan
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/3/1971
The Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Judge Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/1/1971
Dinner
Speaker: Revd Nicholas Stacey
Prior of the day: Peter Wyld
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/11/1970
Dinner
Speaker: Richard Ingrams
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/10/1970
Dinner
Speaker: C.P. Snow
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/05/1970
Dinner
Speaker: Justice William Latey
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 19/03/1970
The Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/02/1970
Dinner
Speaker: Major Douglas Percival
Prior of the day: Rodney Bennett-England
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/01/1970
1960s
Dinner
Speaker: Anthony Chenevix-Trench
Prior of the day: Peter Bander
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/11/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Rupert Murdoch
Prior of the day: John Seymour Berry
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/10/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Victor Feather
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/05/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Anthony Blond
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/04/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Norman Collins
Prior of the day: Sir Robert Mayer
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/03/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Francis Williams
Prior of the day: R.J. Minney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/02/1969
Dinner
Speaker: Paul Crossley
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/11/1968
Dinner
Speaker: A.P. Herbert
Prior of the day: Maurice Cream
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/10/1968
Dinner
Speaker: Enoch Powell
Prior of the day: Brian Roberts
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 19/09/1968
Centenary Feast at the Waldorf Hotel
Speaker: Sir Alec Douglas Hume
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Waldorf Hotel
Date: 28/03/1968
Dinner
Speaker: John Condee Christian
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/01/1968
Dinner
Speaker: William Rees-Mogg
Prior of the day: Anthony Greenwood
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/11/1967
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/10/1967
Meeting to Discuss the Future of the Whitefriars Club
Prior of the day: Nigel Viney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 04/10/1964
‘Truth and Television Interviewing’
Speaker: John Freeman
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/03/1963
‘Can the Arts Survive?’
Speaker: W.E. Hilthus, Herbert Read, Thomas Armstrong
Prior of the day: Sir Robert Mayer
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/03/1963
Dinner
Speaker: F.G. Waller
Prior of the day: Alan Steel
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 20/02/1963
Dinner
Speaker: Brian R. Roberts, Valentin Iremonger
Prior of the day: Seán Jennett
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 16/01/1963
Dinner
Speaker: Ian Hamilton
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 21/11/1962
Dinner
Speaker: David Langdon
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/10/1962
Dinner
Speaker: John Creasey
Prior of the day: Carl Routledge
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 18/04/1962
‘General Publishing – Has It a Future?’
Speaker: John Attenborough and Anthony Blond
Prior of the day: Daniel George
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/03/1962
‘Morals Today’
Speaker: David West Russell and Leslie Whiteside
Prior of the day: Nigel Viney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/02/1962
‘The Frivolity of the Serious Press’
Speaker: Ewan Gilliam and Gerard Fay
Prior of the day: Peter Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/01/1962
Dinner
Speaker: L. Monnickendam
Prior of the day: John Ardagh
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 18/10/1961
‘The Common Market’
Speaker: Lord Gladwyn
Prior of the day: Henry Durant
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 20/09/1961
‘The Nonsense of Wine’
Speaker: Anthony Berry
Prior of the day: Peter Wall
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/05/1961
‘Good Taste in Fleet Street’
Speaker: Timothy Beaumont, John Gordon and Reginald Payne
Prior of the day: John Ardagh
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 19/04/1961
‘Publisher and Agent’
Speaker: Peter Colvocoressi
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 22/03/1961
Dinner
Speaker: Jeremy Thorpe and Anthony Freemont
Prior of the day: Daniel George
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 15/02/1961
‘Ripe for Development’
Speaker: Walter Cachn
Prior of the day: Rodney Fraser
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 18/01/1961
‘Do You Know What You Like?’
Speaker: Reg Puther
Prior of the day: Jeremy Potter
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/11/1960
‘The New Undergraduate’
Speaker: Edward Boyle
Prior of the day: Nigel Viney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 19/10/1960
‘Does Pornography Matter?’
Speaker: Herbert Read
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/09/1960
‘Theatre in the Sixties’
Speaker: Dame Edith Evans, Donald Soper and Hugh Hunt
Prior of the day: James MacGibbon
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/05/1960
‘The Institution of Parliament’
Speaker: Lord Boothby
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/04/1960
‘The Police and the Public’
Speaker: I.L.C. Simon
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 16/03/1960
Dinner
Speaker: Mervyn Stockwood
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/02/1960
‘High Finance and Take-over Bids’
Speaker: George Schwartz
Prior of the day: Nigel Viney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 20/01/1960
1950s
‘The Modern Poet in Print’
Speaker: Cristopher Logue
Prior of the day: Daniel George
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 21/10/1959
‘The Responsibility of the Press and Radio’
Speaker: Hugh Green and David Astor
Prior of the day: Reginald Pound
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/09/1959
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 01/07/1959
‘The Small Magazine’
Speaker: John Lehmann
Prior of the day: Seán Jennett
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/05/1959
Dinner
Speaker: P.M.S. Blackett
Prior of the day: Guy Ramsey
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/04/1959
Dinner
Prior of the day: Alan Hill
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/03/1959
Dinner
Prior of the day: David Wainwright
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/02/1959
Dinner
Speaker: John Rothenstein
Prior of the day: Henry Durant
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/01/1959
Dinner
Speaker: P.J. Auchinleck
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/10/1958
Dinner
Speaker: E.P. Harrison
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/04/1958
Dinner
Prior of the day: Daniel George
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/03/1958
Dinner
Prior of the day: J.A. Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/02/1958
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Denning
Prior of the day: Lord Gorell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/01/1958
Dinner
Speaker: John Wolfenden
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/11/1957
Dinner
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/10/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Peter Fleming
Prior of the day: Rupert Hart-Davis
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/09/1957
Dinner
Prior of the day: Kennedy Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/05/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Fred Hoyle
Prior of the day: C.P. Snow
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/04/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Bernard Braden
Prior of the day: Peter Cochrane
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/03/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Humphrey F. Fileen
Prior of the day: Daniel George
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/02/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Gerard Fay
Prior of the day: Eric Hiscock
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/01/1957
Dinner
Speaker: Gershon Huned
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/11/1956
Dinner
Speaker: William Cooper and Mark Longman
Prior of the day: James MacGibbon
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 24/10/1956
Dinner
Speaker: David Kelly
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/05/1956
Dinner
Speaker: S.G. Soul
Prior of the day: George Kamur
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/04/1956
Dinner
Speaker: Basil C. Aldous
Prior of the day: Frank Whitaker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 20/03/1956
Dinner
Speaker: Aidan Crawley
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 22/02/1956
Dinner
Speaker: Eugene Paul Bennett VC and Gerald Gardiner QC
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/01/1956
Dinner
Speaker: Henry Durant
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/11/1955
Dinner
Speaker: H.C. Dent
Prior of the day: J.W. Lambert
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/10/1955
Dinner
Speaker: John Wain and Ivor Brown
Prior of the day: Rupert Hart-Davis
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/09/1955
Dinner
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/04/1955
Dinner
Speaker: Robert Mobell
Prior of the day: Joseph Dean
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 30/03/1955
Dinner
Speaker: Percy Cudlipp
Prior of the day: Frank Whitaker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/02/1955
Dinner
Speaker: Philip Hope-Wallace
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/01/1955
Dinner
Speaker: Sir William Holford
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/11/1954
Dinner
Speaker: Ernest Dudley
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/10/1954
Dinner
Speaker: R.R.H. Barnes
Prior of the day: Lord Gorell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 29/09/1954
Dinner
Speaker: W.C. Andrews
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 18/05/1954
Dinner
Speaker: Ernest W. Elleston
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/04/1954
Dinner
Speaker: Edward Gardner
Prior of the day: Lord Gorell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/03/1954
Dinner
Speaker: Denis Famer
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/02/1954
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Winterton
Prior of the day: Jonathan Leafe
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/04/1953
Dinner
Speaker: Guy Ramsey
Prior of the day: Arthur Coleridge
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 03/03/1953
Dinner
Speaker: Gerald D. Lade
Prior of the day: C.R. Hewitt
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 10/02/1953
Dinner
Speaker: James Gunn
Prior of the day: Collin Brooks
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/11/1952
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Burghley
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/10/1952
Dinner
Speaker: Norman Angell
Prior of the day: Collin Brooks
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 27/05/1952
Dinner
Speaker: George Barnes
Prior of the day: John Brophy
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 23/03/1952
Dinner
Speaker: Kingsley Martin
Prior of the day: Dudley Barker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/02/1952
Dinner
Speaker: Robert Birley
Prior of the day: C.M. Joad
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/06/1951
Dinner
Speaker: J.D. Newth
Prior of the day: John Connell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 22/05/1951
Dinner
Speaker: Douglas M. Bryant
Prior of the day: Frank Whitaker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/04/1951
Dinner
Speaker: Harold Scott
Prior of the day: Collin Brooks
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 13/03/1951
Dinner
Speaker: R.H.G. Crosman
Prior of the day: C.M. Joad
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 13/02/1951
Dinner
Speaker: Michael Sadleir
Prior of the day: Leonard Russell
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 16/01/1951
Dinner
Speaker: Norman Collins, John Gordon, Arthur Chist
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 12/12/1950
Dinner
Speaker: Morya Danan Lensley, Eric Gillett, Milton Shulman
Prior of the day: R.J. Minney
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 21/11/1950
Dinner
Speaker: C. Gilford
Prior of the day: Frank Whitaker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 17/10/1950
Dinner
Speaker: John Maud
Prior of the day: Daniel Neylan
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 26/06/1950
Dinner
Speaker: E.R.J. Hussey
Prior of the day: Frank Whitaker
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 06/06/1950
Dinner
Speaker: Alan Pryce-Jones and Leonard Russell
Prior of the day: C.M. Joad
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 25/04/1950
Dinner
Speaker: William Mollison
Prior of the day: George G. Kirkpatrick
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/03/1950
Dinner
Speaker: Derek Curtis-Bennett
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 28/02/1950
Dinner
Speaker: Frank Owler
Prior of the day: Collin Brooks
Venue: Ye Olde Cock Tavern
Date: 31/01/1950
1940s
Informal Sub-Committee Meeting
Venue: Location unknown
Date: 04/07/1949
1930s
Last Pre-War Meeting at the Savage Club
Venue: Savage Club
Date: 21/02/1939
Extraordinary General Meeting
Venue: Savage Club
Date: 06/12/1938
The Real Shape of Things to Come’, a wide-ranging lecture on the future of warfare
Speaker: Captain Basil Liddel Hart
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 22/10/1936
Dinner
Speaker: Charles Peers
Prior of the day: John Keighley Snowden
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 30/04/1936
Dinner
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 10/10/1935
‘Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum’
Speaker: Duff Cooper
Prior of the day: John Keighley Snowden
Venue: Old Chapter House
Date: 05/04/1934
Dinner
Speaker: W. Buchanan Taylor
Prior of the day: H.A. Jones
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 22/02/1934
Dinner
Prior of the day: Robert Heald
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 14/12/1933
Dinner
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 09/11/1933
Dinner
Speaker: John van Druten
Prior of the day: John A. Hammerton
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 19/10/1933
Dinner
Prior of the day: Neill Hamilton
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 04/05/1933
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Edwin Lutyens
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 06/04/1933
Dinner
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 02/03/1933
Dinner
Speaker: Norman Birkett
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 16/02/1933
Dinner
Speaker: Frederick J. Lyons
Prior of the day: H.A. Jones
Venue: Old Chapter House of St Paul’s
Date: 02/02/1933
‘The Art of the Painter’
Speaker: Philip László de Lombos
Prior of the day: John A. Hammerton
Venue: Trocadero Restaurant
Date: 20/12/1932
Dinner
Speaker: L.S. Amery
Prior of the day: H.A. Taylor
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 14/04/1932
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Henry Strakosch
Prior of the day: Neill Hamilton
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 10/03/1932
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Philip Hartog and Lord Conwey of Allington
Prior of the day: Lord Justin
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 03/03/1932
Dinner
Speaker: Henry W. Nevinson
Prior of the day: Daniel Neylan
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 25/02/1932
Dinner
Speaker: General Sir Hubert Gough
Prior of the day: H.A. Jones
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 28/01/1932
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Frank O. Salisbury
Venue: Trocadero Restaurant
Date: 17/12/1931
Dinner
Speaker: Gerald Bullett
Prior of the day: Hugh Ross Williamson
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 19/11/1931
Dinner
Speaker: Philip Harrison
Prior of the day: T.S. Fairley
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 10/11/1931
Ladies’ Lunch
Speaker: Henry A. McArdle
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 07/05/1931
Dinner
Speaker: David Low
Prior of the day: J.A. Spender
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 30/4/1931
Dinner
Speaker: Malcolm Sargent
Prior of the day: Sir Robert Mayer
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 26/03/1931
Dinner
Speaker: Hugh Ross Williamson
Prior of the day: H.A. Jones
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 05/03/1931
‘The Economic Position of Britain’
Speaker: Oswald Mosley
Prior of the day: Richard O'Sullivan
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 19/02/1931
Dinner
Speaker: E.G. Mandeville Roe
Prior of the day: Hamilton Fyfe
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 22/01/1931
Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: A.E. Coppard
Prior of the day: Cecil Harmsworth
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 11/12/1930
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Oswald Mosley
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 04/12/1930
Dinner
Speaker: Henry Morris
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 27/11/1930
Dinner
Speaker: J.A. Cairns
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 13/11/1930
Complimentary dinner to mark the publication of the Guest’s 100th book
Speaker: G.B. Burgin
Prior of the day: S.M. Hill
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 15/05/1930
Ladies’ Lunch
Speaker: Clemence Dane
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 01/05/1930
Dinner
Speaker: Evelyn Wrench
Prior of the day: Alfred B. Cooper
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 20/03/1930
Spring Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: Marjorie Bowen
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 13/03/1930
Dinner
Speaker: C.H.H. Martin
Prior of the day: Hubert Brinton
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 06/03/1930
Dinner
Prior of the day: W. Francis Aitken
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 28/02/1930
Dinner
Speaker: Paul Selver
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 13/02/1930
Dinner
Prior of the day: John Morrison
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 23/01/1930
Dinner
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 16/01/1930
1920s
Symposium: ‘The Brave Days of Old’
Prior of the day: Silas K. Hocking
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 05/12/1929
Dinner
Speaker: Ashley Dukes
Prior of the day: George G. Kirkpatrick
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 21/11/1929
‘The Need for a Literary Censorship’
Speaker: Ethel Mannin
Prior of the day: Kennedy Williamson
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 07/11/1929
Dinner
Prior of the day: J.W. Hill
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 24/10/1929
The Club’s Diamond Jubilee Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Lord Chief Justice of England
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 10/10/1929
Dinner
Prior of the day: Kennedy Williamson
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 01/02/1929
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Sir Philip Gibbs
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 18/12/1928
Dinner
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 06/12/1928
Dinner
Speaker: The Mayor of Croydon
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 16/11/1928
Dinner
Speaker: Sir William Bragg
Prior of the day: W. Maurice Aitken
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 08/11/1928
Dinner
Speaker: R.D. Blumenfeld
Prior of the day: Hamilton Fyfe
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 26/04/1928
‘Problems of India’
Speaker: Sir Michael O’Dwyer
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 29/03/1928
‘Poetry and journalism’
Speaker: Humbert Wolfe
Prior of the day: Cyril Gamon
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 15/03/1928
‘Young Men in Parliament’
Speaker: Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson
Prior of the day: E.G. Gordon
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 09/03/1928
‘Industrial Relationships’
Speaker: Ben Turner
Prior of the day: Alex MacCallum Scott
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 24/02/1928
Annual General Meeting
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 09/02/1928
‘Mental Healing’
Speaker: Dr William Brown
Prior of the day: P.B. Ballard
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 26/01/1928
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: G.K. Chesterton
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 15/12/1927
‘Arbitration or Armaments?’
Speaker: Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 08/12/1927
‘Modern Transport, with special reference to Roads and Railways’
Speaker: Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 24/11/1927
‘Movement for a Shakespeare Memorial in London’
Speaker: Sir Israel Gollancz
Prior of the day: S.W. Still
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 17/11/1927
‘Parody’
Speaker: Sir Owen Seaman
Prior of the day: F. Frankfort Moore
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 03/11/1927
‘The Public, the Press, and the Doctors’
Speaker: Sir Thomas Horder
Prior of the day: J.A. Hammerton
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 13/10/1927
Shan Bullock, a Friar for Many Years
Speaker: Shan Bullock
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 04/09/1927
‘The Army from Within’
Speaker: Sir Herbert Creedy
Prior of the day: Haldane MacFall
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 12/05/1927
Dinner
Speaker: H.C. Palmer
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 21/04/1927
‘Roads and Bridges’
Speaker: Wilfrid Ashley
Prior of the day: Ernest Wild
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 08/04/1927
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 21/03/1927
‘Public Schools’
Speaker: Dr Cyril Norwood Norwich
Prior of the day: Ernest Barker
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 03/03/1927
Dinner
Speaker: John Drinkwater
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 27/01/1927
‘Evidences of Survival’
Speaker: Sir Oliver Lodge
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 13/01/1927
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Justice Atkin
Venue: London
Date: 16/12/1926
‘The Church’s Attitude to Industrial Unrest’
Speaker: Dean of Canterbury
Prior of the day: Silas K. Hocking
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 02/12/1926
‘Light and Heat in Relation to Health’
Speaker: Dr Chalmers Mitchell
Prior of the day: A.B. Cooper
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 12/11/1926
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Robert Horne
Prior of the day: W. Lindley Jones
Venue: Dr Johnson's House
Date: 28/10/1926
‘Philosophers and Poets in Public Life’
Speaker: Ramsay MacDonald
Prior of the day: Alex Scott
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/10/1926
‘The Importance of Being Impertinent’
Speaker: Beverley Nichols
Prior of the day: St John Adcock
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/03/1926
Annual General Meeting
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/02/1926
‘Birth Control’
Speaker: Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane
Prior of the day: Leslie Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/02/1926
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Edith Sithwell
Prior of the day: Ernest Wild
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/12/1925
‘A Short discourse on the Theatre’
Speaker: St John Ervine
Prior of the day: George Sampson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/11/1925
‘Twelve Good Men and True’
Speaker: Sir Travers Humphreys
Prior of the day: Richard O'Sullivan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/11/1925
Class Warfare
Speaker: Jerome K. Jerome
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/10/1925
Ladies’ Dinner
Speaker: Lady Cynthia Asquith
Prior of the day: Herbert Morgan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/04/1925
‘Some Reflections on the Present Day Press’
Speaker: Philip Snowden
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/03/1925
‘Law Reform and the Future’
Speaker: Sir Ernest Pollock
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/03/1925
‘Wireless and Future of the Daily Press’
Speaker: J.C.W. Reith
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/02/1925
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/01/1925
‘The Enemies of the English Language’
Speaker: Sir William Hadow
Prior of the day: P.B. Ballard
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/01/1925
Ladies’ Dinner
Speaker: Dean of St Paul
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/12/1924
Dinner
Speaker: Philip Guedella
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/12/1924
Dinner
Speaker: Wickham Steed
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/11/1924
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Darling
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/10/1924
Dinner
Speaker: Revd Dr C.A. Alington
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/10/1924
Ladies’ Night Dinner
Speaker: G.K. Chesterton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/05/1924
Dinner
Speaker: J.C. Squire
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/04/1924
Dinner
Speaker: William Archer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/02/1924
Dinner
Speaker: Laurence Housman
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/01/1924
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Ernest Barker
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/12/1923
‘Observations of Life’
Speaker: Sir Douglas Hogg
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/11/1923
‘London of the Future’
Speaker: Sir Reginald Blomfield
Prior of the day: Warwick Deeping
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/11/1923
‘Some Problems of To-day’
Speaker: Neville Chamberlain
Prior of the day: Cecil Harmsworth
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/10/1923
‘Journalism of To-day and To-morrow’
Speaker: T.P. O'Connor
Prior of the day: Ernest Barker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/10/1923
Ladies’ Dinner
Speaker: Dame Clara Butt
Prior of the day: Percy Alden
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/05/1923
‘The Personal Note in Literature’
Speaker: Walter de la Mare
Prior of the day: St John Adcock
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/03/1923
‘The World Outlook’
Speaker: Lord Curzon of Kedleston
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/03/1923
‘Life and Literature in the Police Courts’
Speaker: J.A. Cairns
Prior of the day: C.E.A. Bedwell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/02/1923
‘Literature as a Business Proposition’
Speaker: Michael Sadleir
Prior of the day: Harold Shaylor
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/02/1923
‘France and Germany’
Speaker: Sir Frederick Maurice
Prior of the day: Percy Alden
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/02/1923
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Lady Wild
Prior of the day: Ernest Wild
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/12/1922
A Humorous Disquisition Revolving around the Idea of Diversions
Speaker: Colonel Harvey
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/11/1922
‘The Puzzle of the Elections’
Speaker: George Whale
Prior of the day: Harry Jones
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/11/1922
‘The Truth about Authors’
Speaker: Major General John Hay Beith
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/10/1922
Ladies’ Dinner
Speaker: Lord Chief Justice of England
Prior of the day: E. Vincent Evans
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/05/1922
‘Can We Satisfy India?’
Speaker: Lord Meston
Prior of the day: Basil Mathews
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/03/1922
‘What is Wrong with the Theatre?’
Speaker: Charles B. Cochran
Prior of the day: Leslie Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/03/1922
‘The Future of Egypt’
Speaker: Viscount Milner
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/02/1922
‘The Value of the Secret Service’
Speaker: Sir Basil Thompson
Prior of the day: Ernest Wild
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/02/1922
‘Parliament at its Future’
Speaker: Lord Ullswater
Prior of the day: Harry Jones
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/01/1922
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Lord Astor
Prior of the day: C.W. Kimmins
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/12/1921
‘Is Civilization Worth Saving?’
Speaker: Revd Dr Orchard
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/11/1921
‘Romanticism and Realism’
Speaker: Compton Mackenzie
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/11/1921
‘The Lighter Side’
Speaker: Prof. Stephen Leacock
Prior of the day: Ward Muir
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/10/1921
Ladies’ Dinner
Prior of the day: Burnett Smith
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/05/1921
‘Our National Finance’
Speaker: Reginald McKenna
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/04/1921
‘The Human Element in Business’
Speaker: Lord Leverhulme
Prior of the day: A.D. Power
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/04/1921
‘Democracy: Athenian or American. Which?’
Speaker: Dr T. R. Glover
Prior of the day: Hamilton Fyfe
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/03/1921
‘What is Man Becoming?’
Speaker: Prof. Arthur Keith
Prior of the day: C.W. Kimmins
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/02/1921
‘Some Aspects of Journalism in Two Hemispheres’
Speaker: Sir Campbell Stuart
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/01/1921
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Viscountess Rhonnda
Prior of the day: H. Wesley Dennis
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/12/1920
‘The Crisis in the Book Trade’
Speaker: Hugh Walpole
Prior of the day: Cecil Palmer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/11/1920
‘Poetry and the Man in the Street’
Speaker: John Drinkwater
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/11/1920
‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat’
Speaker: George Bernard Shaw
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/10/1920
‘After the War: the New Foundations’
Speaker: Sir Philip Gibbs
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/10/1920
Club Lunch to Friar Richard Whiteing on Attaining His 80th Year
Speaker: Richard Whiteing
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/07/1920
Ladies’ Night Dinner
Speaker: Lady Bonham Carter
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/05/1920
‘Is Honesty Possible in Politics?’
Speaker: Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland
Prior of the day: Percy Alden
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/03/1920
‘The Criticism of New Books’
Speaker: J.C. Squire
Prior of the day: W. Francis Aitken
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/03/1920
‘Industry under Labour Government’
Speaker: J R. Clynes
Prior of the day: Hamilton Fyfe
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/02/1920
‘Some Aspects of Modern Society’
Speaker: Father Bernard Vaughan
Prior of the day: George Whale
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/02/1920
1910s
Christmas Dinner at the Criterion
Speaker: Captain Evans
Prior of the day: W. Lindley Jones
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/12/1919
‘Public Nerves and the Press’
Speaker: Sir Nevil Macready
Prior of the day: H.R. Tedder
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/11/1919
‘The National Outlook’
Speaker: Lord Robert Cecil
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/11/1919
‘Novels and Novelists’
Speaker: W.L. George
Prior of the day: St John Adcock
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/11/1919
‘The Law in Relation to Social Stability’
Speaker: Sir Henry Duke
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/10/1919
‘Life in Siberia’
Speaker: Colonel John Ward
Prior of the day: A. MacCallum Scott
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/10/1919
Ladies’ Night Dinner
Speaker: Lady Oliver
Prior of the day: Leslie Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/05/1919
‘Our Naval Intelligence Service’
Speaker: Admiral Sir William Reginald Hall
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/03/1919
‘The Future of Aviation’
Speaker: Handley Page
Prior of the day: Leslie Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/03/1919
‘America and the War’
Speaker: P. W. Wilson
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/01/1919
The Peace Dinner
Speaker: Mrs C. S. Peel
Prior of the day: E. Vincent Evans
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/12/1918
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Joseph Shaylor
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/12/1918
‘Our Splendid Navy’
Speaker: Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux
Prior of the day: J.R. Fisher
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/11/1918
Special Ladies’ Lunch at the Trocadero
Speaker: Captain Francis Carpenter
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/06/1918
‘America in the War’
Speaker: Major George Haven Putnam
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/05/1918
‘Great Britain and Ourselves’
Speaker: General E.F.Glen
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/03/1918
‘A Talk about Russia’
Speaker: Hamilton Fyfe
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/01/1918
Christmas Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Joseph Shaylor
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/12/1917
‘A Talk About Books’
Speaker: Augustine Birrell
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/12/1917
‘The Troubles of a Food Controller’
Speaker: Liord Rhondda
Prior of the day: E. Vincent Evans
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/10/1917
‘The Cinema and the Censor’
Speaker: F.L. Crilly
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/03/1917
‘Journalism: Its Influence and its Pitfalls’
Speaker: Justice McCardie
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/02/1917
‘The Press and the War’
Speaker: John Buchan
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/01/1917
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Countess of Carrick
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/12/1916
Annual General Meeting
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/12/1916
‘London in War-time’
Speaker: Sir Edward Henry
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/11/1916
‘Defence and Defiance’
Speaker: Major-General Sir Francis Lloyd
Prior of the day: E. Vincent Evans
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/11/1916
‘The Drama and the War’
Speaker: General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien
Prior of the day: C.W. Kimmins
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/10/1916
Rose Lunch at the Rendezvous Restaurant given by Friar Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Rendezvous Restaurant
Date: 25/09/1916
‘Some Experiences at the Front and Elsewhere’
Speaker: Will Crooks
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/05/1915
‘The Man Who Dined with the Kaiser’
Speaker: Anonymous
Prior of the day: F.A. Mackenzie
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/03/1916
‘Life in the Old Country and Life in Australia’
Speaker: Sir George Reid
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/01/1916
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Arthur Stanley
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 17/12/1915
Annual General Meeting
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/12/1915
‘The Navy and the Great War’
Speaker: A.H. Pollen
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/10/1914
‘What we owe to Russia’
Speaker: Prof. Mickail
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/05/1915
‘Books and Booksellers’
Speaker: William Meredith
Prior of the day: A.D. Power
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/03/1915
‘The New Journalism’
Speaker: Sir Henry Lucy
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/03/1915
Christmas Luncheon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/12/1914
A Belgian Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: M. Portieje
Prior of the day: Harvey Darton
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 18/12/1914
Annual Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: W. Francis Aitken
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/12/1914
‘To celebrate the attainment of threescore years and ten by Friar Joseph Shaylor’
Speaker: Joseph Shaylor
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/11/1914
Ladies’ Banquet at the Café Royal
Speaker: Mrs Bulstrode
Venue: Café Royal
Date: 08/05/1914
‘Correspondents in Peace and War’
Speaker: Sir Edward Ward
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/04/1914
‘Realism in Literature’
Speaker: Jeffery Farnol
Prior of the day: J.M. Dent
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/04/1914
‘The Pleasures of Travel’
Speaker: Sir Mark Sykes
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/03/1914
‘The Influence of Criticism on Fiction’
Speaker: W.B. Maxwell
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/03/1914
‘The Criminal and the Public’
Speaker: R.D. Muir
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/03/1914
‘Hospitality’
Speaker: Yoshio Markino
Prior of the day: A.D. Power
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/03/1914
‘Something about the Drama’
Speaker: Oscar Asche
Prior of the day: H.E. Morgan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/02/1914
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Walter Hines Page
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 12/12/1913
‘A Chat About My Father’
Speaker: Henry F. Dickens
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/12/1913
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/11/1913
‘The Outlook for Federal Parliaments’
Speaker: Herbert Samuel
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/11/1913
‘The Classics and Modern Life’
Speaker: Dean Inge
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/10/1913
‘Art and its Association with Literature’
Speaker: John Lavery
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/10/1913
‘Author and Critic’
Speaker: George A. Birmingham
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/10/1913
Ladies’ Dinner
Prior of the day: A.D. Power
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 02/05/1913
‘The Modern Novel’
Speaker: Hugh Benson
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/04/1913
‘The Influence of the House of Commons’
Speaker: F.E. Smith
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/04/1913
Annual Dinner at Anderton’s Hotel
Speaker: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/03/1913
‘The Place of Art in Life’
Speaker: George Clausen
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/02/1913
‘The Press and Party Politics’
Speaker: Harold Cox
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/02/1913
‘Sentiment’
Speaker: Lord Moulton
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/02/1913
Christmas Dinner
Speaker: Lilian Braithwaite
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/12/1912
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: George Henry Perkins
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/12/1912
‘Eugenics’
Speaker: Leonard Darwin
Prior of the day: Burnett Smith
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/12/1912
‘Peace and War’
Speaker: Norman Angell
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/11/1912
‘The Stage and the Public’
Speaker: Sir George Alexander
Prior of the day: Keble Howard
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/11/1912
‘The Problem of Labour Unrest’
Speaker: Sir George Askwith
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/11/1912
‘Spelling Reform’
Speaker: Tim Healy
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/10/1912
A Pilgrimage to Penshurst and Knole, Sevenoaks
Prior of the day: Walter Smith
Venue: Sevenoaks
Date: 29/06/1912
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: Miss Darragh
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 03/05/1912
‘The Pen and the Sword’
Speaker: Field Marshall Lord Roberts
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/04/1912
‘The Psychology of Women’
Speaker: Sir Almroth Wright
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/04/1912
‘Books as Gifts’
Speaker: Dr Hagberg Wright
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/03/1912
‘What Playgoers Want’
Speaker: William Archer
Prior of the day: Alfred Sutro
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/03/1912
Annual Dinner
Speaker: E.T. Cook
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/03/1912
‘The Germans and Ourselves’
Speaker: Dr Russell Wakefield
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/02/1912
‘Wild Beasts of To-day’
Speaker: Sir Robert Ball
Prior of the day: C.W. Kimmins
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/12/1912
‘The World and the Bench’
Speaker: Judge Parry
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/02/1912
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 15/12/1911
‘Memories of Fleet Street’
Speaker: Thomas Catling
Prior of the day: Silas K. Hocking
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/12/1911
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/12/1911
‘The Romance of Research’
Speaker: Prof. Sylvanus Thompson
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/11/1911
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/11/1911
‘The Painful Prejudice against Lawyers’
Speaker: Sir John Simon
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/11/1911
‘The Migrations of Nations’
Speaker: Prof. Flinders Petrie
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/11/1911
‘The Pleasures of Travel’
Speaker: Oscar Browning
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/10/1911
‘The Promise of the Drama’
Speaker: Arthur Bouchier
Prior of the day: Alfred Sutro
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/11/1911
A Pilgrimage to Hatfield and St Albans
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: Hatfield and St Albans
Date: 01/07/1911
Ladies’ Dinner
Prior of the day: James Walter Smith
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 28/04/1911
‘Wild Life in Nature’
Speaker: Charles G.D. Roberts
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/04/1911
House Dinner
Prior of the day: H.J. Brown
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/04/1911
‘Conviviality, Ancient and Modern’
Speaker: J.P. Mahaffy
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/03/1911
‘Wood Lore’
Speaker: Ernest Thompson Seton
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/03/1911
House Dinner
Prior of the day: William Archbald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/03/1911
‘The Psychology of the Criminal’
Speaker: H.B. Irving
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/03/1911
Annual Dinner at Anderton’s Hotel
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/03/1911
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Walter B. Slater
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/02/1911
‘United South Africa’
Speaker: Earl of Selborne
Prior of the day: Walter Runciman
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/02/1911
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Robert Sommerville
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/02/1911
‘How Parliaments Differ’
Speaker: Sir Courtenay Ilbert
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/02/1911
House Dinner and Discussion: ‘The Mystery of Ancient Man’
Speaker: E.P. Gaston
Prior of the day: T. Athol Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/01/1911
‘The Fascinations of Folk Lore’
Speaker: Sir G. Lawrence Gomme
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/01/1911
Christmas Dinner/Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 16/12/1910
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/12/1910
‘The Future of Australia’
Speaker: Sir George Reid
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/11/1910
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/11/1910
Lord Mayor’s Day Lunch
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/11/1910
‘Lawyers, Juries and the Truth’
Speaker: Sir Samuel Evans
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/11/1910
‘The Romance of Disraeli’s Youth’
Speaker: W.F. Monypenny
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/10/1910
Reception of the City Imperial Volunteers, St Dunstan’s Rooms
Venue: London
Date: 27/10/1910
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 06/05/1910
‘Is Ireland Worth While?’
Speaker: Sir Horace Plunkett
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/04/1910
‘Are Games Carried to Excess?’
Speaker: Lord Kinnaird
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/04/1910
House Dinner
Prior of the day: A. Hervé Browning
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/04/1910
‘Is the Censorship of the Libraries’ Association justifiable?’
Speaker: John Murray
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/04/1910
‘The Press and the Stage’
Speaker: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Prior of the day: Peter Keary
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/04/1910
‘Is Sport Wholesome?’
Speaker: Lord Ronaldshay
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/03/1910
‘Is Modern Fiction Decadent?’
Speaker: Maurice Hewlett
Prior of the day: Alfred Sutro
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/03/1910
Annual Dinner at Anderton’s Hotel
Speaker: Leonard Huxley
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/03/1910
‘Why I want to reach the South Pole’
Speaker: Captain Robert Falcon Scott
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/02/1910
‘Why I love Dr Johnson’
Speaker: George Whale
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/02/1910
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Walter Jerrold
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/02/1910
‘What are the causes of the apparent increase in insanity?’
Speaker: Dr Bernard Hollander
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/02/1910
A Congratulatory Dinner to Friar Sir William Roberston Nicoll, ‘Literary Journalism’
Speaker: William Robertson Nicoll
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/01/1910
1900s
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: G.K. Chesterton
Prior of the day: W. Gurney Benham
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/12/1909
‘Reading and Books’
Speaker: H.R. Tedder
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/12/1909
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Walter Smith
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/12/1909
‘Cosmopolitanism’
Speaker: Lord Courtney of Penrith
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/11/1909
House Dinner
Prior of the day: H.A. Hinkson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/11/1909
‘The Humours of Public Life’
Speaker: J.L. Griffith
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/11/1909
House Dinner
Prior of the day: W.N. Shansfield
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/11/1909
House Dinner (in the absence of Thomas Hardy)
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/10/1909
‘The Value of History’
Speaker: Prof. Flinders Petrie
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/10/1909
‘Journalism of To-day’
Speaker: J.L. Garvin
Prior of the day: A.G. Gardiner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/10/1909
House Dinner
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/10/1909
‘The Antarctic’
Speaker: Lieutenant Sir Ernest Shackleton
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: De Keyser Royal Hotel
Date: 01/10/1909
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: Hilaire Belloc
Prior of the day: Walter Runciman
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 30/04/1909
‘Humour in and out of Fiction’
Speaker: W.W. Jacobs
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/04/1909
‘The House of Commons – The Real and the Ideal’
Speaker: Bonar Law
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/04/1909
‘Patriotism and Citizenship’
Speaker: R.B. Haldane
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/03/1909
Annual Dinner at Anderton’s Hotel
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/03/1909
‘The Criticism of Living Writers’
Speaker: Prof. Walter Raleigh
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/02/1909
‘The Artist and the Public’
Speaker: Frank Dicksee
Prior of the day: Cyril Davenport
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/02/1909
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Shan F. Bullock
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/02/1909
‘The Connection Between History and Literature’
Speaker: G.W. Prothero
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/02/1909
‘The Ethics of Cross-Examination’
Speaker: Rufus Isaacs
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/01/1909
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Lady Mayo
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 18/12/1908
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/12/1908
‘The Duration of Life’
Speaker: Chalmers Mitchell
Prior of the day: Wilfred Whitten
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/12/1908
‘The Message of Greece and Rome today’
Speaker: Sir Rennell Rodd
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/11/1908
‘China and the Chinese’
Speaker: Sir Robert Hart
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/11/1908
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Charles E. Pearce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/11/1908
‘The Recreations of a Busy Man’
Speaker: Sydney Buxton
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/11/1908
Tribute to Friar William Senior, in celebration of his Jubilee in Journalism
Speaker: William Senior
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/10/1908
‘What the Colonies Mean to Us’
Speaker: Colonel John Bernard Seely
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/10/1908
‘Spooks’
Speaker: Andrew Lang
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/10/1908
A pilgrimage to Salisbury and Stonehenge
Venue: Salisbury
Date: 15/06/1908
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: The Bishop of Ripon
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/05/1908
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/04/1908
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/04/1908
‘A Plea for the Peasant’
Speaker: General Sir William Butler
Prior of the day: F. Frankfort Moore
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/04/1908
‘The Lighter Side of Recreation’
Speaker: Rudolph C. Lehmann
Prior of the day: Mostyn Pigott
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/04/1908
‘London in Shadow and Sunshine’
Speaker: Pett Ridge
Prior of the day: Silas K. Hocking
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/03/1908
‘Science and the Man in the Street’
Speaker: Prof. Sylvanus Thompson
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/03/1908
‘The Garden City (in Particular Letchworth)’
Speaker: Justice Ralph Neville
Prior of the day: J.M. Dent
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/03/1908
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: George Wyndham
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 28/02/1908
‘Newspapers in War Time’
Speaker: Maurice Baring
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/02/1908
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Alfred H. Miles
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/02/1908
‘The Reform of the Theatre’
Speaker: H. Granville Barker
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/02/1908
‘Literature in Schools’
Speaker: John Percival
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/01/1908
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/12/1907
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Arthur Conan Doyle
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/12/1907
‘Biography versus Autobiography’
Speaker: Earl of Crewe
Prior of the day: Robert A. Hudson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/12/1907
House Dinner
Prior of the day: J. Farlow Wilson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/11/1907
‘The Selling of Books’
Speaker: Reginald Smith
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/11/1907
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/11/1907
‘The Making of a Civilisation’
Speaker: Sir Oliver Lodge
Prior of the day: H.G. Wells
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/11/1907
‘Uncle Sam from a Scribbler’s Point of View’
Speaker: Horace Annesley Vachell
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/11/1907
‘East and West, and the Influence of Each upon the Other’
Speaker: Sir Mortimer Durand
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/10/1907
‘The State Censorship of Novels’
Speaker: Bram Stoker
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/10/1907
‘The Traditions and Future of London Correspondence’
Speaker: Alfred F. Robbins
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/10/1907
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: William Treloar
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 26/04/1907
House Dinner: ‘The Decadence of the English Language’
Speaker: Herbert Paul
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/04/1907
‘The Gospel of Zola’
Speaker: W.J. Locke
Prior of the day: Alfred Sutro
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/04/1907
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/04/1907
‘Author, Publisher, and Public’
Speaker: Frederick Macmillan
Prior of the day: Cecil B. Harmsworth
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/03/1907
‘The Old Journalism and the New’
Speaker: Sir Edward Russell
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/03/1907
‘Is the Scot a Reductio ad absurdum?’
Speaker: Thomas Shaw
Prior of the day: Walter Runciman
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/03/1907
House Dinner
Prior of the day: W. Algernon Locker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/03/1907
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: A. J. Balfour
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/02/1907
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Reginald Geard
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/02/1907
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/02/1907
‘Are We an Artistic Nation?’
Speaker: Lionel Cust
Prior of the day: J.A. Hammerton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/02/1907
‘Should we have a Channel Tunnel’
Speaker: Lt Col. Charles à Court Repington
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/01/1907
‘Biography, Complete and Discreet’
Speaker: G.K. Chesterton
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/01/1907
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 14/12/1906
House Dinner and Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/12/1906
‘The Stress and Strain of the Literary Life’
Speaker: Malcolm Morris
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/11/1906
‘The Neglected Methods of the Feudal System’
Speaker: Justice Darling
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/11/1906
Discussion on The Times Book Club controversy
Speaker: Arthur Spurgeon
Prior of the day: Hamilton Fyfe
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/11/1906
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/11/1906
‘How to Save Nature from Man’
Speaker: Douglas Freshfield
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/11/1906
‘Parody, Lawful and Awful’
Speaker: Owen Seaman
Prior of the day: F. Frankfort Moore
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/10/1906
‘The Place of Athletics in National Life’
Speaker: C.B. Fry
Prior of the day: E.T. Sachs
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/10/1906
Dinner with a conversation led by the Prior of the Day
Prior of the day: Alfred H. Miles
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/10/1906
Dinner to celebrate Sir Francis Carruthers Gould being honoured with a knighthood
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/10/1906
Pilgrimage to Hindhead – ‘Tennyson’s Country’
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Hindhead
Date: 07/07/1906
Ladies’ Banquet at the Trocadero
Speaker: Whitelaw Reid
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 27/04/1906
‘Portraits and Portraiture’
Speaker: John Collier
Prior of the day: J.M. Dent
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/04/1906
‘Some Aspects of Thackeray’
Speaker: Sir Algernon West
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/04/1906
‘What May be Learnt from Japan’
Speaker: General Sir Ian Hamilton
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/03/1906
‘The Influence of Literature upon Life’
Speaker: Lord Halsbury
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/03/1906
‘Has London a Soul?’
Speaker: Ford Madox Hueffer
Prior of the day: Wilfred Whitten
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/03/1906
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: Field Marshal Sir George White
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 02/03/1906
‘Should Dialect be Fostered?’
Speaker: Prof. Joseph Wright
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/02/1906
‘Should Theatres be Municipalised?’
Speaker: George Bernard Shaw
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/02/1906
Historical Review of the Sanctuary of Alsatia by the Prior of the Day
Prior of the day: Algernon Rose
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/02/1906
‘Is Humour on the Wane?’
Speaker: George Grossmith
Prior of the day: F. Frankfort Moore
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/02/1906
‘The Laying Out of London’
Speaker: Sir John Wolfe Barry
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/01/1906
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/01/1906
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/01/1906
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/01/1906
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 15/12/1905
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/12/1905
‘The Drama and its Purpose’
Speaker: Henry Arthur Jones
Prior of the day: Reginald Geard
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/12/1905
‘The Influences of the Garden’
Speaker: Sir Michael Foster
Prior of the day: Gilbert Coleridge
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/11/1905
House Dinner
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/11/1905
‘Life in the East End of London’
Speaker: Arthur Winnington-Ingram
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/11/1905
‘Crime and How to Deal with It’
Speaker: Sir Robert Anderson
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/11/1905
‘Has Photography helped Art?’
Speaker: J. Seymour Lucas
Prior of the day: Cyril Davenport
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/10/1905
‘Lord Nelson’
Speaker: Admiral Sir Edmund Fremantle
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/10/1905
‘The Spirit of Modern Literature’
Speaker: Earl of Lytton
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/10/1905
Ladies’ Dinner at the Hotel Cecil
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 05/05/1905
‘The Municipal Life of London’
Speaker: J. Williams Benn
Prior of the day: Alexander Paul
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/04/1905
The Shakespeare Dinner
Speaker: Bram Stoker
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/04/1905
‘The Study of Nature’
Speaker: Lord Avebury
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/04/1905
‘Public School Training’
Speaker: Bishop Welldon
Prior of the day: C. Arthur Pearson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/03/1905
‘The Influence of Argument’
Speaker: Rufus Isaacs
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/03/1905
‘The City Beautiful’
Speaker: Sir Philip Burne-Jones
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/03/1905
Annual Dinner in the Empire Hall of the Trocadero Restaurant
Speaker: Sir Edward Grey
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/03/1905
‘Patriotism in Life and Literature’
Speaker: Sir Douglas Straight
Prior of the day: E.E. Knight
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/03/1905
‘Stand Parliament where it Did? The Future of Parliamentary Government’
Speaker: David Lloyd George
Prior of the day: Winston Churchill
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/02/1905
‘Is the Influence of Journalism on the Wane?’
Speaker: J. St Loe Strachey
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/02/1905
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Lee Campbell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/02/1905
‘Pressing Social Problems’
Speaker: Arnold White
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/02/1905
‘Don Quixote: A Quixotic Address’ Tercentenary Celebration
Speaker: Augustine Birrell
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/01/1905
‘Does the Royal Academy Represent the Art of the Nation?’
Speaker: Count Plunkett
Prior of the day: Clive Holland
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/01/1905
‘Books and How to Read Them’
Speaker: Hector McPherson
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/01/1905
‘The Modern Novel’
Speaker: Anthony Hope
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/01/1905
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 16/12/1904
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/12/1904
‘The Use and Abuse of Criticism’
Speaker: Churton Collins
Prior of the day: J.A. Hammerton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/12/1904
‘Village Life and Town Life’
Speaker: Revd Dr Jessopp
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/11/1904
Stories’
Speaker: F. Frankfort Moore
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/11/1904
‘The Theatre and the Crowd’
Speaker: A.B. Walkley
Prior of the day: Osman Edwards
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/11/1904
‘The Art of the Machine’
Speaker: Prof. Hubert von Herkomer
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/11/1904
‘Are the People of England really Musical?’
Speaker: Sir Frederick Bridge
Prior of the day: Coulson Kernahan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/10/1904
‘Nelson Celebration Entertainment’
Speaker: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/10/1904
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/10/1904
‘In Defence of Mountaineering’
Speaker: Revd William Lefroy
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/09/1904
Pilgrimage to Dickens Country
Venue: Rochester
Date: 25/06/1904
Ladies’ Banquet
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 29/04/1904
Shakespeare Evening
Speaker: Sir Squire Bancroft
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/04/1904
‘Ballooning’
Speaker: Revd J.M. Bacon
Prior of the day: F.J. Cross
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/04/1904
‘What are the Dominating Influences in Literary Productions?’
Speaker: Arthur Quiller-Couch
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/04/1904
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/04/1904
‘The Revival of Romance in Literature’
Speaker: Maurice Hewlett
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/03/1904
‘The Uses and Abuses of Burlesque’
Speaker: Adrian Ross
Prior of the day: G.B. Burgin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/03/1904
‘The Influence of Art on Life’
Speaker: Walter Crane
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/03/1904
‘Travel Reminiscences’
Speaker: Sir Harry Johnson
Prior of the day: W.H. Helm
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/03/1904
‘The Relations of Editors and Contributors’
Speaker: Henry Newbolt
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/02/1904
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero: ‘History Writing’
Speaker: Sir George Trevelyan
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 19/04/1904
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/02/1904
‘Is Bohemianism of Advantage to Letters and the Arts?’
Speaker: A. Chichele Plowden
Prior of the day: Haldane McFall
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/02/1904
A Musical Entertainment Conducted by Prior Coulson Kernahan
Speaker: Sir August Manns
Prior of the day: Coulson Kernahan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/01/1904
‘The Gods of Muscle – False and True’
Speaker: Lord Alverstone
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/01/1904
‘Stands Scotland Where it Did?’
Speaker: Sir Herbert Maxwell
Prior of the day: Alexander Paul
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/01/1904
‘The Curse of Uniformity in Costume’
Speaker: Max Beerbohm
Prior of the day: Lee Campbell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/01/1904
Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 18/12/1903
‘What can we learn from Japan?’
Speaker: Arthur Diosy
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/12/1903
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/12/1903
‘A Citizen’s Duty to the Empire’
Speaker: Charles Spencer-Churchill
Prior of the day: Winston Churchill
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/11/1903
‘The Future of the Motor’
Speaker: Scott Montagu
Prior of the day: C. Arthur Pearson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/11/1903
‘The Transformation of London’
Speaker: Sir W.B. Richmond
Prior of the day: Robert Donald
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/11/1903
‘The Old Journalist and the New’
Speaker: G.K. Chesterton
Prior of the day: J.A. Steuart
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/11/1903
‘The Uses of Caricature’
Speaker: E.T. Reed
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/10/1903
‘Are there Grounds for a Serious Optimism?’
Speaker: R.J. Campbell
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/10/1903
‘The Degeneracy of the Race’
Speaker: Prof. E. Ray Lankester
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/10/1903
House Dinner
Prior of the day: A.G. Browning
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/10/1903
‘The Real Educational Needs of England’
Speaker: Sir Robert S. Ball
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/10/1903
A Pilgrimage to Cymbeline’s Town and Constable’s Country
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Suffolk
Date: 20/06/1903
Ladies’ Banquet at the Hotel Cecil
Speaker: Lady Warwick
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 01/05/1903
‘The Rush to the Towns’
Speaker: H. Rider Haggard
Prior of the day: F.J. Cross
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/04/1903
‘The Stress and Strain of Literary Life’
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/04/1903
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/04/1903
‘The Pleasures of a Bibliophile’
Speaker: Harry Buxton Forman
Prior of the day: Harry J. Brown
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/04/1903
‘Victorian and Georgian Literature – A Comparison’
Speaker: Dr Edmund Gosse
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/03/1903
‘Is the French Novel a True Representation of French Life?’
Speaker: Hilaire Belloc
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/03/1903
‘Art and the Man in the Street’
Speaker: M.H. Spielmann
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/03/1903
‘The Romance of Spain’
Speaker: Major Martin Sharp Hume
Prior of the day: Joseph Hocking
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/03/1903
‘The Personal Factor in History’
Speaker: James Bryce
Prior of the day: George Whale
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/02/1903
‘The Magic of Electricity’
Speaker: Sir William H. Preece
Prior of the day: Robert N. Fairbanks
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/02/1903
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/02/1903
‘Anonymity in Journalism’
Speaker: J.A. Spender
Prior of the day: Anthony Hope
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/02/1903
Annual Dinner in the Empire Hall of the Trocadero Restaurant
Speaker: Lord Goschen
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 30/01/1903
‘Britain and Civilisation’
Speaker: Benjamin Kidd
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/01/1903
‘Contemporary Fashionable Life’
Speaker: Ven. Archdeacon Sinclair
Prior of the day: Ernest Clarke
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/01/1902
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/01/1903
New Year Smoking Entertainment (in the Masonic Room of Anderton’s Hotel)
Speaker: William Treloar
Prior of the day: T.P. O'Connor
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/01/1903
Annual Christmas Dinner at the Trocadero Restaurant
Prior of the day: Arthur Spurgeon
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 19/12/1902
‘Our English Sports’
Speaker: Lord Harris
Prior of the day: E.T. Sachs
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/12/1902
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/12/1902
‘Slumland in Fact and Fiction’
Speaker: George R. Sims
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/11/1902
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/11/1902
‘Dramatic Instinct’
Prior of the day: Benjamin Swift
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/11/1902
‘The Ideal Newspaper’
Speaker: Moberley Bell
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/11/1902
‘Americans in English Letters’
Speaker: Henry Harland
Prior of the day: Newton Crane
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/10/1902
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Alexander Paul
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/10/1902
‘Reminiscences’
Speaker: Harrison Weir
Prior of the day: Bowdler Sharpe
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/10/1902
‘The Celtic Fringe’
Speaker: Neil Munro
Prior of the day: J.A. Steuart
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/10/1902
‘The Genius of France’
Speaker: J.E.C. Bodley
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 03/10/1902
Pilgrimage to visit Friar George Meredith in his garden at Flint Cottage, Box Hill
Speaker: T.P. O'Connor
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Box Hill
Date: 12/07/1902
Excursion on the Thames
Venue: Marlow
Date: 21/06/1902
The Richmond Club invited members to attend a pastoral play to be performed in the gardens of their Club House
Venue: London
Date: 07/06/1902
Ladies’ Banquet
Speaker: Mrs Fenwick Miller
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 02/05/1902
Shakespeare Commemoration Dinner
Speaker: Augustine Birrell
Prior of the day: Winston Churchill
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/04/1902
Symposium on ‘How I got into Print’
Speaker: Max Pemberton
Prior of the day: L.F. Austin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/04/1902
Travellers’ Tales’
Speaker: Sir Clements R. Markham
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/04/1902
‘Penny Fiction’
Speaker: Charles Pearce
Prior of the day: J. Farlow Wilson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/04/1902
House Dinner
Prior of the day: Commander Robinson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/03/1902
Open discussion on ‘Realism and its Rivals in Literature’
Speaker: Richard Whiteing
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/03/1902
‘Author, Publisher, and Literary Agent’
Speaker: John Murray
Prior of the day: F.J. Cross
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/03/1902
‘The Art of To-Day’
Speaker: Holman Hunt
Prior of the day: Aaron Watson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/02/1902
House Dinner
Prior of the day: J. Bloundelle Burton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/02/1902
‘The Americanisation of England’
Speaker: Sidney Low
Prior of the day: Kenric B. Murray
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/02/1902
‘The Commerce of Man v. The Commerce of Books’
Speaker: Richard Whiteing
Prior of the day: Coulson Kernahan
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/02/1902
‘The Twenty-First Century’
Speaker: H.G. Wells
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/01/1902
Annual Dinner in the International Hall, Café Monico
Speaker: Lord Bishop of Ripon
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Café Monico
Date: 24/01/1902
House Dinner
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/01/1902
Christmas Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/12/1901
‘The Perils of Indifferentism’
Speaker: G.W.E. Russell
Prior of the day: Charles Low
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/11/1901
‘Some Literary Reflections’
Speaker: Sidney Lee
Prior of the day: A.E.W. Mason
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/11/1901
‘Literature in the Eighteenth Century’
Speaker: Austin Dobson
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/11/1901
‘Is there a Science of Literary Criticism?’
Speaker: W.L. Courtney
Prior of the day: J.A. Steuart
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/11/1901
‘The Press and the Public’
Speaker: F. Carruthers Gould
Prior of the day: J.Y.W. MacAlister
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/11/1901
‘Thomas Hardy and His Novels’
Speaker: Sir George Douglas
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/10/1901
‘Problems Beyond the Seas’
Speaker: Earl Beauchamp
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/10/1901
‘Impressions of some English Literary Landmarks’
Speaker: Edwin D. Mead
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/10/1901
Humour in Literature’
Speaker: Jerome K. Jerome
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 04/10/1901
Dinner in honour of Mr Foster Fraser, prior to journeying the length of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/08/1901
Pilgrimage to Hardy Country, and tea as guests of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hardy at Max Gate, Dorchester
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Dorchester
Date: 29/06/1901
Visit to Selborne, Gilbert White’s country
Venue: Selborne
Date: 18/05/1901
Ladies’ Banquet at the Hotel Cecil
Speaker: Dr John Watson
Prior of the day: Winston Churchill
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 03/05/1901
‘What is True Art?’
Speaker: Revd C.H. Grundy
Prior of the day: Aaron Watson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/04/1901
‘The Stage and the Press’
Speaker: William Farren
Prior of the day: B.L. Farjeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/04/1901
‘Plagiarism’
Speaker: Israel Zangwill
Prior of the day: A. Kinross
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/04/1901
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/04/1901
‘The Millennary of King Alfred’
Speaker: Sir Frederick Pollock
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/03/1901
‘The Prospects of Man as an Animal’
Speaker: Frederick Treves
Prior of the day: William Hill
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/03/1901
‘London in the Seventeenth Century’
Speaker: Dr W.J. Collins
Prior of the day: A.H. Miles
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/03/1901
‘Some Aspects of Modern Journalism’
Speaker: H.J. Palmer
Prior of the day: W.J. Fisher
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/03/1901
‘The Humours of Reading for a Publisher’
Speaker: Coulson Kernahan
Prior of the day: Angelo J. Lewis
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/03/1901
‘Literary Criticism’
Speaker: Anthony Hope
Prior of the day: Poultney Bigelow
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/02/1901
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 16/02/1901
‘Napoleon Literature’
Speaker: Clement K. Shorter
Prior of the day: Cecil Harmsworth
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 08/02/1901
‘Philistinism’
Speaker: Benjamin Swift
Prior of the day: R. Lee Campbell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 01/02/1901
‘Humour in the Press’
Speaker: Arthur à Beckett
Prior of the day: Max O'Rell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/01/1901
‘Old Friars and Old Friends Talk about Old Times’
Speaker: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/01/1901
‘The Art of Fiction’
Speaker: Arthur Conan Doyle
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 11/01/1901
Christmas Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/12/1900
‘Reminiscences’
Speaker: Sir Evelyn Wood
Prior of the day: E.F. Knight
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/12/1900
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 07/12/1900
House Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/11/1900
‘The Quincentenary of Chaucer’
Speaker: Dr Furnival
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/11/1900
‘The Brontë Novels’
Speaker: Sir Wemyss Reid
Prior of the day: Max Pemberton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/11/1900
‘The Influence of Ruskin’
Speaker: Arthur Severn
Prior of the day: F.J. Cross
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/11/1900
‘Has the Modern Stage helped Public Morals’
Speaker: William Archer
Prior of the day: Revd C.H. Grundy
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/11/1900
‘Towards the South Pole’
Speaker: Carsten Borchgrevink
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/10/1900
‘The Scot in Modern Fiction’
Speaker: Revd John Watson
Prior of the day: J.A. Steuart
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/10/1900
‘Round the World on a Wheel’
Speaker: J. Foster Fraser
Prior of the day: A.G. Browning
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/10/1900
‘War Correspondence’
Speaker: Winston Churchill
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/10/1900
Excursion to Paris
Speaker: Yves Guyot
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/09/1900
Pilgrimage to Burford Bridge
Speaker: George Meredith
Prior of the day: William Robertson Nicoll
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/07/1900
Garden Party at the home of Friar and Mrs George Manville Fenn
Venue: Syon Lodge, Isleworth
Date: 07/07/1900
Pilgrimage to Shakespeare’s Country
Speaker: Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: Stratford upon Avon
Date: 23/06/1900
Ladies’ Banquet at the Hotel Cecil
Speaker: Lady Randolph Churchill
Prior of the day: Max O'Rell
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 04/05/1900
‘The Influence of Journalism on Politics’
Speaker: Sir Douglas Straight
Prior of the day: Aaron Watson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/04/1900
Shakespeare Commemoration
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/04/1900
‘Novels with a Purpose’
Speaker: Lord Windsor
Prior of the day: J.Y.W. MacAlister
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 06/04/1900
‘Carlyle, the Man and his Writings’
Speaker: Dr Garnett
Prior of the day: H.J. Gibbs
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 30/03/1900
‘National Humour’
Speaker: Barry Pain
Prior of the day: Robert Leighton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/03/1900
‘How to Make London Beautiful’
Speaker: Walter Crane
Prior of the day: R. Lee Campbell
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/03/1900
‘Sports of Literary Men’
Speaker: Sir Martin Conway
Prior of the day: Harold Spender
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/03/1900
‘The Grub Street of the Future’
Speaker: William Robertson Nicoll
Prior of the day: Clement K. Shorter
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/03/1900
‘Art and Literature’
Speaker: Prof. W.W. Skeat
Prior of the day: Revd H.L. Nelthropp
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/02/1900
‘Problems in India’
Speaker: Sir George Robertson
Prior of the day: Edward Clodd
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/02/1900
Special Meeting of the Club
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 16/02/1900
‘Dickens Commemoration’
Speaker: E.T. Cook
Prior of the day: B.L. Farjeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 09/02/1900
‘The Imperial Note in Literature’
Speaker: Max Pemberton
Prior of the day: J.A. Steuart
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 02/02/1900
Annual Dinner at the Trocadero
Speaker: York Powell
Prior of the day: William Treloar
Venue: Trocadero
Date: 24/01/1900
‘The Drama of To-day and To-morrow’
Speaker: J.T. Grein
Prior of the day: W.N. Shansfield
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/01/1900
‘Novels with a Purpose’ or ‘Journalists and Preachers’
Speaker: Dr Parker
Prior of the day: Silas K. Hocking
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/01/1900
‘To meet the surviving Original Members of the Club and to Gossip about Old Times’
Prior of the day: B.F. Stevens
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 05/01/1900
1890s
An Elizabethan Christmas Entertainment
Speaker: G.W.E. Russell
Prior of the day: F. Carruthers Gould
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/12/1899
‘Fishing Stories’
Speaker: John Bickerdyke
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 15/12/1899
‘Some Johnson Characteristics’
Speaker: H.W. Massingham
Prior of the day: L.F. Austin
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 8/12/1899
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: A.G. Browning
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 1/12/1899
Smoking Concert
Speaker: W.H. Cummings
Prior of the day: Dalgety Henderson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/11/1899
‘The Advantages and Disadvantages of the New Journalist’
Speaker: Frederick Greenwood
Prior of the day: Alex Paul
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/11/1899
‘Yorick Yarns’
Speaker: F. Frankfort Moore
Prior of the day: Louis Knight
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 10/11/1899
‘Hands across the Sea’
Speaker: Joseph Choate
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 3/11/1899
Thomas Hardy’s Novels’
Speaker: Clive Holland
Prior of the day: J. Foster Fraser
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/10/1899
Lord Nelson Banquet: ‘Nelson in Literature’
Speaker: Prof. John Knox Laughton
Prior of the day: G.A. Henty
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/10/1899
Dinner
Speaker: Lord Selbourne
Prior of the day: Kenric B. Murray
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/10/1899
Century of Membership Dinner
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 6/10/1899
Excursion to Kenilworth and Warwick Castles
Prior of the day: Richard Whiteing
Venue: Warwick Castle
Date: 24/6/1899
Mark Twain’s Second Visit to the Whitefriars Club
Speaker: Mark Twain
Prior of the day: Poultney Bigelow
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 16/6/1899
Ladies’ Night at the Hotel Cecil
Speaker: Countess of Warwick
Prior of the day: Gilbert Parker
Venue: Hotel Cecil
Date: 5/5/1899
Dinner
Speaker: Robert P. Porter
Prior of the day: Aaron Watson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/4/1899
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/4/1899
Dinner
Speaker: Anthony Hope
Prior of the day: J. Bloundelle Burton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/4/1899
Dinner
Speaker: William Bernard Montague
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 7/4/1899
Dinner
Speaker: J. Henniker Heaton
Prior of the day: Irving Montague
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/3/1899
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/1/1899
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 6/1/1899
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Dr Markoff
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/1/1898
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: T. Heath Joyce
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 2/11/1897
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Colonel John Hay
Prior of the day: Poultney Bigelow
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/10/1897
Annual General Meeting
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 4/12/1896
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/11/1896
Pilgrimage to Knole House
Venue: Sevenoaks
Date: 13/6/1896
Visit to Tunbridge Wells and then to Penshurst Place courtesy of Viscount De L’Isle and Dudley
Prior of the day: C. Braid
Venue: Tunbridge Wells
Date: 29/6/1895
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: J. Bloundelle Burton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/1/1895
Pilgrimage to Oxford
Prior of the day: Angelo J. Lewis
Venue: Oxford
Date: 30/6/1894
Smoking entertainment: ‘Without note’. ‘Gossip, Wit, Pathos, and Satire from the pages of Punch’
Speaker: W.E. Church
Prior of the day: J. Bloundelle Burton
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 13/4/1894
Annual Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/1/1894
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: W.P. Treloar
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 3/3/1893
Dinner
Speaker: Captain Frederick Lugard
Prior of the day: Poultney Bigelow
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 3/2/1893
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: Poultney Bigelow
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/1/1893
Pilgrimage to Canterbury
Venue: Canterbury
Date: 25/6/1892
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Ringrose Wise
Prior of the day: Aaron Watson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 6/2/1892
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: L.D. Powles
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/11/1891
Summer Excursion: ‘A Midsummer Day Dream’
Venue: Windsor
Date: 18/7/1891
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: J. Farlow Wilson
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 24/4/1891
Annual Dinner
Speaker: W.J. Macdonald
Prior of the day: B.L. Farjeon
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 31/1/1891
Dinner
Speaker: Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Prior of the day: William Senior
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 17/10/1890
Summer outing on the Thames in the Viscountess Bury, the largest electric boat on the river
Venue: River Thames
Date: 28/6/1890
Smoking Concert
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/3/1890
Meeting H.M.Stanley and the Difficulties Placed in His Way’
Speaker: Thomas Stevens
Prior of the day: G.A. Henty
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 14/2/1890
Annual Dinner: ‘Society and Solitude’
Prior of the day: Hall Caine
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/1/1890
1880s
Dinner
Speaker: Paul de Chaillu
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 20/12/1889
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: W. Laird Clowes
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 22/11/1889
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: T. Proctor
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/4/1889
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Theodore Drew
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 1/3/1889
Annual Dinner
Speaker: John Proctor
Prior of the day: John Hamer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 26/1/1889
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Angelo J. Lewis
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/11/1888
Summer Excursion to Windsor and Virginia Water, dinner at the Wheatsheaf
Prior of the day: John Williams
Venue: Windsor and Virginia Water
Date: 30/6/1888
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 27/4/1888
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Tom Archer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 2/3/1888
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Sidney Low
Prior of the day: John Williams
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 28/1/1888
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Richard Gowing
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/11/1887
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/4/1887
Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: Henry Lee
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 4/3/1887
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: G.A. Henty
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 29/1/1887
Summer Excursion – Visit to Rochester and Charles Dickens Country, dining at the Clarendon at Gravesend
Prior of the day: John Williams
Venue: Rochester
Date: 26/6/1886
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: Tom Archer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 23/1/1886
Excursion to the Royal Forest Hotel
Prior of the day: Tom Archer
Venue: Chingford
Date: 27/6/1885
Annual Dinner
Speaker: Sir Frederick Rose
Prior of the day: Byron Curtis
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/1/1884
Smoking Lecture: ‘A Gossip about the Past’
Speaker: E. L. Blanchard
Prior of the day: Jonas Levy
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 18/5/1883
Dinner
Speaker: William Creswick
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 1/12/1882
Excursion to Epping Forest
Prior of the day: William Sawyer
Venue: Epping Forest
Date: 12/8/1882
Garden Party for the Friars at James Henderson’s home, followed by a repast
Venue: Adon Mount, East Dulwich
Date: 17/6/1882
The First Smoking Lecture: ‘Douglas Jerrold and His Time’
Speaker: T. Dillon Croker
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 19/5/1882
The First Smoking Concert
Prior of the day: William Sawyer
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 13/4/1882
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: William Sawyer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 25/2/1882
Annual Dinner
Speaker: E.L. Blanchard
Prior of the day: Tom Archer
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 12/2/1881
Dinner
Speaker: Bret Harte
Prior of the day: William Sawyer
Venue: Temple Club
Date: 28/5/1880
Dinner: ‘Shakespeare Immortal Memory’
Venue: Temple Club
Date: 24/4/1880
Dinner
Venue: Temple Club
Date: 16/4/1880
Dinner
Venue: Temple Club
Date: 2/3/1880
Dinner
Venue: Anderton's Hotel
Date: 21/2/1880
Dinner
Venue: Holborn Restaurant
Date: 23/1/1880
Dinner
Venue: Holborn Restaurant
Date: 16/1/1880
Dinner (letters by Dickens shown to members)
Venue: Temple Club
Date: 9/1/1880
1870s
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Holborn Restaurant
Date: 12/3/1879
Annual Dinner
Venue: City United Club
Date: 19/1/1878
Annual General Meeting
Venue: City United Club
Date: 4/1/1878
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: Tom Archer
Venue: City United Club
Date: 27/1/1877
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: City United Club
Date: 5/1/1877
Special General Meeting to increase subscription to 3 guineas, and to accept the offer of the City United Club
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 17/3/1876
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 28/1/1876
The Club dined on a noble fish caught by Mr George Manville Fenn
Speaker: George Manville Fenn
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 22/11/1875
Farewell dinner for William Senior on his departure to Queensland
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 7/1/1876
Whitefriars and Savage Club combine a farewell dinner to Barry Sullivan at Alexandra Palace, on his departure to America
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 14/6/1875
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 15/1/1875
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 16/1/1874
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: G. Wharton Simpson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 31/1/1873
Dinner with special guests Mark Twain (who spoke on ‘Discovering Dr Livingstone’) and Ambrose Bierce
Speaker: Mark Twain
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 6/9/1872
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Colonel Richards
Venue: Mitre Tavern
Date: 5/1/1872
The club’s first Conversazione
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 14/4/1871
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: William Sawyer
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 10/2/1871
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: G. Wharton Simpson
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 24/1/1871
Whitefriars dinner for Mr William Creswick on his departure to the USA
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 22/2/1870
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: J. Crawford Wilson
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 5/2/1870
Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Mr Barnes
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 7/1/1870
1860s
Opening of Blackfriars Bridge and Holborn Viaduct; Queen Victoria visits the City
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 6/11/1869
Mr Crawford Wilson entertained the Whitefriars to recitals and readings
Venue: Hanover Square Rooms
Date: 12/06/1869
Annual Dinner
Prior of the day: Tom Hood
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 18/01/1869
First Annual General Meeting
Prior of the day: Tom Hood
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 08/01/1869
Farewell dinner for James Sutherland on his departure to edit the Madras Times
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 14/10/1868
Dinner
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 28/02/1868
Inaugural Dinner
Prior of the day: Henry N. Barnetts
Venue: Radley's Hotel
Date: 21/02/1868