As well as stumping up often eye-watering membership fees, hopefuls must satisfy all sorts of requirements — including simply waiting until a hefty number of existing members have kicked the bucket — before they can enter the fold.
Who would have thought that a hot chocolate emporium founded by an Italian immigrant in would eventually become the drinking den of choice for two future kings? Good luck getting behind its Grade I listed doors, though — you must win the support of 36 members in order to be granted membership, and the waiting list is supposedly years long.
Women are permitted as guests only, a policy that led former Prime Minister David Cameron to tear up his membership back in Located on the outskirts of clubland in the West End, Garrick Club is one for the thespians.
When Charles Dickens published remarks made by William Makepeace Thackeray there — a cardinal sin in clubland, apparently — a bitter feud that became known as the Garrick Affair ensued between these two distinguished members.
Since then, the likes of T. Eliot, Laurence Olivier and Rex Harrison have walked its jewel-toned halls. After the enactment of The Reform Act , the Whigs — the political party that spearheaded this package of electoral reforms — wanted a new hub for discussing radical ideas. And boy, did architect Charles Barry deliver. The result is an Italian palazzo-style clubhouse complete with Corinthian columns, flamboyant decor, and a glass ceiling, which was proverbially smashed in when The Reform became one of the first clubs of its kind to admit women.
The club has long ceased to have any political function, and nowadays claims to attract members from all sorts of backgrounds. That said, its members list includes a fair few baronesses and knights, and Sir David Attenborough.
Her gold statue looms over the portico of the ridiculously palatial Athenaeum clubhouse on Pall Mall. Some 80, works are housed floor-to-ceiling across three spectacular libraries. Time Traveler for gentleman's club The first known use of gentleman's club was in See more words from the same year. Dictionary Entries Near gentleman's club gentleman's-cane gentleman's club gentleman's sorrel See More Nearby Entries.
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