George Gissing, the celebrated author of the novel New Grub Street, which satirizes the literary and journalistic world of 1880s London, attended the 20th April 1900 Dinner as a guest of Friar Edward Clodd.
In July 1890, Oscar Wilde called at the Whitefriars Club’s rooms at Anderton’s Hotel and had a long talk about Dorian Gray with Friar Sidney Low, then editor of the St James’s Gazette.
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A classical scholar educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Enoch Powell (1912–98) was a Conservative politician and one of the most divisive figures in recent British history, following his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of 20th April 1968.
Powell spoke at the Whitefriars Club later that year, on 19th September 1968.
