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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On 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
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Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who published under the pseudonym “Q” (1863–1944), was a prolific novelist, a literary critic and the editor of the monumental The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900.
He spoke twice at the Whitefriars Club: on 8th April 1904 (‘What are the Dominating Influences in Literary Productions?’) and on 7th March 1913.
