History Corner
Serial SpeakersAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
Read moreAccording to the club’s records, there are eleven people who have spoken to the club more than once.
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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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Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1964), was a Unionist Party (Conservative) politician and the first woman seated as a Member of Parliament, serving from 1919 to 1945.
Lady Astor was a club guest at the Christmas Dinner of 16th December 1921.
