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The Athenaeum Club in 2006 as viewed from the south-east
The Athenaeum Club in 1830.
The Hall of the Athenaeum c.1845

The Athenaeum Club is a gentlemen's club standing at 107 Pall Mall, London, at the corner of Waterloo Place Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 554 pixelsFull resolution (2100 × 1455 pixel, file size: 961 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 554 pixelsFull resolution (2100 × 1455 pixel, file size: 961 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Athenaeum_in_1830. ... Image File history File links Athenaeum_in_1830. ... Image File history File links The hall of the Atheneum c. ... Image File history File links The hall of the Atheneum c. ... A Gentlemens club is a members club, originally for male members of the English gentry. ... Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...


It is noted for its large library and the bas-relief frieze decorating the club house exterior. It was long regarded as a clergymen's club and boasts bishops, Cabinet Members, and Lords amongst its members. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      This article is about a title... In the Politics of the United Kingdom, the Cabinet is a formal body comprised of government officials chosen by the Prime Minister. ... The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is also commonly referred to as the Lords. The Sovereign, the House of Commons (which is the lower house of Parliament and referred to as the Commons), and the Lords together comprise the Parliament. ...


The club's facilities include a dining room, a smoking room and a suite of bedrooms. A notable feature of the Club's clock which hangs above the stairs is that it has two figure sevens and no figure eight, the reason for which is uncertain.


John Wilson Croker, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and some friends founded the club in 1823 for individuals known for scientific, literary or artistic accomplishments as well as patrons of these endeavors. Sir Thomas Lawrence designed the club crest: a head of Athena inside an oval surrounded by the legend "ATHENÆUM CLUB·PALL MALL". John Wilson Croker (December 20, 1780 - August 10, 1857) was a British statesman and author. ... Alexander MacKenzie painted by Thomas Lawrence (c. ... 1823 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This marble copy signed ANTIOCHOS is a first century BCE copy of Phidias 5th-century original that stood on the Acropolis In Greek mythology, Athena (Attic: , AthÄ“nâ, or , AthḗnÄ“; Doric: , Asána; Latin: Minerva), the shrewd companion of heroes, evolved into the goddess of wisdom, as philosophy became...


The club house was designed in Neoclassical taste by Decimus Burton. The main entrance and the front of the house on Waterloo Place has a Doric portico with paired columns. There is a continuous balustrade on the piano nobile, the main floor above the ground floor, with a frieze copied from the Parthenon above. A statue of Pallas Athene by Edward Hodges Baily stands above the porch. The original design was for two storeys; the third was added later. Late Baroque classicizing: G. P. Pannini assembles the canon of Roman ruins and Roman sculpture into one vast imaginary gallery (1756) Neoclassicism (sometimes rendered as Neo-Classicism or Neo-classicism) is the name given to quite distinct movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that... Decimus Burton (30 September 1800-December 1881) was a prolific English architect and garden designer, particularly associated with projects in the classical style in London parks, including buildings at Kew Gardens and London Zoo, and with the layout and architecture of the seaside towns of Fleetwood and St Leonards on... The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonic orders being the Ionic and the Corinthian. ... Categories: Architectural elements | Stub ... Kedleston Hall. ... The Parthenon seen from the hill of the Pnyx to the west. ... This article is about the goddess Athena. ... Edward Hodges Baily (March 10, 1788 - May 22, 1867) was a British sculptor who was born in Bristol. ...


For many years The Athenaeum Club was widely seen to represent the peak of London's clubland for the public intellectual. Most members of the Athenaeum were men of inherited wealth and status, but, under Rule II, the club additionally admitted men "...of distinguished eminence in Science, Literature, or the Arts, or for Public Service" The admission of men who had gained their social position through intellectual influence and achievement rather than by title or money gave the club an unusual diversity of membership.


The membership of the Athenæum was originally limited to one thousand, and the waiting list was always long. The cost of the magnificent premises had resulted in a deficit of some £20,000 and 200 supernumerary members were elected in 1832 to restore the finances. Supernumerary is a member of the staff or an employee who works in a public office but is not part of the manpower complement. ...


By 1838 the Club was again in straitened circumstances after undertaking expensive remedial action because of the damage caused by the gas lighting. (It was one of the earliest buildings to be lit by this means). To alleviate the situation, 160 supernumeraries were admitted to ordinary membership and an additional forty brought forward from the waiting list. These "forty thieves", as they became known, included Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin. In 1886 the Clubhouse became one of the first buildings to be lit by electricity. (Source 'AIM 25 Archives in London and the M25 area http://www.aim25.ac.uk/) “Dickens” redirects here. ... For other people of the same surname, and places and things named after Charles Darwin, see Darwin. ...


In 2002 the members voted to admit women. Also see: 2002 (number). ...


Notable members

This is a small selection of the notable people who have belonged to the club:

The Right Honourable George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, PC (January 28, 1784–December 14, 1860) was a Tory/Peelite politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855. ... George Basil Cardinal Hume OSB, OM, MA, STL (March 2, 1923—June 17, 1999) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. ... “Dickens” redirects here. ... Photo submitted by Simon Manchee Augustus Willington Shelton Agar VC DSO was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. ... Louis Lucien Bonaparte (January 4, 1813 - November 3, 1891) was the third son of Napoleons second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte. ... James Bryce, right, with Andrew Carnegie; Bryce served as a trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce, OM, GCVO, FRS, PC (May 10, 1838 - January 22, 1922), was a British jurist, historian and politician. ... Sir Francis Burdett Sir Francis Burdett, 5th Baronet (25 January 1770–23 January 1844) was an English reformist politician, the son of Francis Burdett by his wife Eleanor, daughter of William Jones of Ramsbury manor, Wiltshire, and grandson of Sir Robert Burdett, Bart. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. ... 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References

  • Phiz, London at Dinner, or Where to Dine, (London: Robert Hardwick, 1858) ('Phiz' was a pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne)
  • Frank Richard Cowell, The Athenaeum: Club and Social Life in London, 1824-1974, (London: Heinemann, 1975) ISBN 0-435-32010-6

His talents in other directions of art were of a very ordinary kind. ...

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Athenaeum Club
  • Official Website of the Athenaeum Club
  • Guide to the archives of the Athenaeum Club
  • List of London's gentlemen's clubs
  • Interesting debate in the House of Lord's May 2002 re the Sex Discrimination Bill and women members of Clubs
  • List of prominent Victorian era members of the Athenaeum Club
  • Map showing location of the club (streetmap.co.uk)

Coordinates: 51°30′25″N, 0°07′58″W Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... The Wikimedia Commons (also called Wikicommons) is a repository of free content images, sound and other multimedia files. ... See Gentlemens club (traditional) for an explanation of this particular sort of club. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...


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