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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The July 1906 Pilgrimage to Tennyson country was one of the most anticipated events of the year.
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Sir Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972) was a Scottish writer of fiction, a biographer, a historian, a memoirist, as well as a cultural commentator.
Sir Compton Mackenzie spoke at the Whitefriars Club on the topic of ‘Romanticism and Realism’ on 4th November 1921. He also attended as a guest at the Ladies’ Dinner of 24th April 1925.
