Bullingdon Club members pose for the camera in 1986. Click on the image for the full-size version

The Bullingdon Club is a socially exclusive student drinking society at Oxford University, without any permanent rooms, infamous for its members' wealth and destructive binges. Membership is by invitation only, and prohibitively expensive for most. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

The Bullingdon Club was founded over 150 years ago, originally as a hunting and cricket club, as the club's crest shows.[1] It now exists primarily as a dining club with a vestige of hunting in the support of the point to point. The club traditionally meets for an annual breakfast at the Bullingdon point to point, and a club dinner, as well as smaller initiation dinners, before which the rooms of new members are wrecked. Hunter and Huntress redirect here. ... For the insect, see Cricket (insect). ... Point to Point racing is a form of amateur racing for hunting horses. ...

Members traditionally dress for their annual dinner in specially made tailcoats in royal blue with ivory silk lapel facings, brass monogrammed buttons, and a mustard waistcoat. Bandleader Vincent Lopez in white tie, early 1920s Evening dress (also known as full evening dress) or white tie is the most formal dress code that exists for civilians today. ... Brass is any alloy of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses, each of which has unique properties[1]. Note that in comparison bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin. ...

Its modus operandi is to book a private dining room under an assumed name, then physically destroy it. Very large amounts of cash are then offered to the owners to pay them off for the destruction.

The Bullingdon is satirised in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall (1928), where it has a pivotal role in the plot: The mild-mannered hero gets the blame for the Bollinger Club's destructive rampage through his college and is sent down. Tom Driberg claimed that the description of the Bollinger Club was a "mild account of the night of any Bullingdon Club dinner in Christ Church. Such a profusion of glass I never saw until the height of the Blitz. On such nights, any undergraduate who was believed to have 'artistic' talents was an automatic target."^[1] Evelyn Waugh, as photographed in 1940 by Carl Van Vechten Arthur Evelyn St. ... Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh. ... Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... Expulsion at a school or university is defined as removing a student from the institution for violating rules or honor codes. ... Thomas Edward Neil Driberg, Baron Bradwell (May 22, 1905—August 12, 1976) was a British journalist and politician who was an influential member on the left of the UK Labour party from the 1940s to the 1970s. ... College name Christ Church Named after Jesus Christ Established 1546 Sister College Trinity College Dean The Very Revd Christopher Andrew Lewis JCR President William Dorsey Undergraduates 426 MCR or GCR President {{{MCR President}}} Graduates 154 Home page Boat Club Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple or house of Christ... Heinkel He 111 German bomber over the Surrey Docks, Southwark, London (German propaganda photomontage) The Blitz was the sustained bombing of the United Kingdom by National Socialist Germany between 7 September 1940 and 16 May 1941 in World War II. It was carried out by the Luftwaffe to retaliate the... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ...

Waugh likely also had the Bullingdon in mind in the meeting of the two principal characters in Brideshead Revisited, when after a drunken society dinner Sebastian Flyte vomits through the window of Charles Ryder's college room. Anthony Andrews, who played Lord Sebastian Flyte, and his group wore the famous Bullingdon tails on the 1981 TV adaptation. Brideshead Revisited, the Sacred and Profane Memories of Capt. ... Anthony Andrews (born on January 12, 1948, London, England) is a British actor, best known for his role in Brideshead Revisited playing the doomed Sebastian Flyte. ... Brideshead Revisited, the Sacred and Profane Memories of Capt. ...

Notable members

Members of the club have included:

• David Cameron, MP
• Alan Clark, MP
• David Dimbleby
• David Faber, MP
• Darius Guppy
• Boris Johnson, MP
• Harry Mount
• George Osbourne, MP
• Nathaniel Philip Rothschild^[2]
• Radosław Sikorski
• The 7th Marquess of Bath

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References

1. ^ Carpenter, Humphrey. The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and his Friends, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.
2. ^ Thomas, Landon Jr. "The Man Who May Become the Richest Rothschild." The New York Times, 9 March 2007.

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External links

• "Oxford hellraisers politely trash a pub", The Daily Telegraph, Richard Alleyne, 3 December 2004

• "[2]" Photograph of David Cameron's Bullingdon club, 1987.

• "Cameron Student Photo is Banned", BBC News, 2 March 2007. More details of David Cameron's Bullingdon Club.