In 1897, the twenty-five-year American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar travelled to England for a literary tour. He recited his works on the London circuit – and, what was not known before, visited the Whitefriars Club.
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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.
Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937) was a labour politician who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom for nine months in 1924 and again from 1929 to 1931.
Ramsay MacDonald spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 7th October 1926, on the topic of ‘Philosophers and Poets in Public Life’.
