History Corner
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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W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, as well as a dramatist, critic and essayist. Closely associated with the Irish Literary Revival, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
Yeats attended as a guest on 23rd November 1900, when he spoke on ‘The Depredation Which We Call Progress’. He returned to the club four years later, on 11th November 1904, as a guest of the Prior of the Day, Friar Osman Edwards. On that occasion he is reported to have made “an impressively mystical speech” as he discussed the points touched by the opener.
