History Corner
The Immortal Dinner of 1872Only four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
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Bram Stoker
A prolific writer and an important figure of the London theatre world, Bram Stoker (1847–1912) is now best remembered for his 1897 novel Dracula, in which he established many of the enduring elements of the western vampire myth.
Bram Stoker was the club guest speaker at the Shakespeare Dinner of 14th April 1905. Having been made a Friar on 1st December that year, he attended several subsequent dinners, and spoke again at the club about ‘The State Censorship of Novels’ on 18th October 1907.
