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The Immortal Dinner of 1872

Only 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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Beatrice Kean Seymour at the Whitefriars Club

A new document has emerged showing that the prolific English novelist and short-story writer Beatrice Kean Seymour, born in Clapham into a working-class family, spoke at the Whitefriars’ 1930 Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero.

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