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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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’.
