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Mark Twain Returns to the Whitefriars ClubOn 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 Compton Mackenzie
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.
