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.
Read moreOnly 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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A new document has emerged showing that the prolific English novelist and short-story writer Beatrice Kean Seymour, born in Clapham into a working-class family, spoke at the Whitefriars’ 1930 Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero.
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Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) was an English writer of adventure books set in exotic locations, the most famous of which are King Solomon’s Mines and She.
H. Rider Haggard spoke at the Whitefriars Club on the topic of ‘The Rush to the Towns’ on 24th April 1903.
