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The Immortal Dinner of 1872Only four years after its foundation, on 6th September 1872, the Whitefriars Club held one of its most memorable and eventful dinners.
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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.
