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Encyclopedia > The Club (dining club)

The Club was a London dining club founded in 1764 by essayist Samuel Johnson, and Joshua Reynolds, the painter. A Gentlemens club is a members club originally for male members of the English upper class. ... 1764 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723–February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of eighteenth-century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the Grand Style in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. ...


Initially, the club would meet one evening per week at seven, at the Turk's Head Inn in Gerrard Street, Soho. Later, meetings were reduced to once per fortnight whilst parliament was in session, and were held at rooms in St. James's Street. Though the initial suggestion was Reynolds's, it is Dr Johnson whose name is most closely associated with the Club. Gerrard Street is in the Chinatown area of London, England. ... Soho is an area of central Londons West End in the borough the City of Westminster. ... St. ...


John Timbs, in his Club Life in London gives an account of the Club's centennial dinner in 1864, which was celebrated at the Clarendon hotel. Henry Hart Milman, the English historian, was treasurer. John Timbs (August 17, 1801 - March 6, 1875), English antiquary, was born in Clerkenwell, London. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Henry Hart Milman (November 10, 1791 - September 24, 1868) was an English historian and ecclesiastic. ...


The Club's motto was "Esto perpetua". Esto perpetua (Latin Let it be perpetual) is a state motto of Idaho. ...

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Members

The nine original members were:

The club later expanded. At any time there was a forty-member maximum. Later members included: Samuel Johnson circa 1772, painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. ... Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Joshua Reynolds (July 16, 1723–February 23, 1792) was the most important and influential of eighteenth-century English painters, specialising in portraits and promoting the Grand Style in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. ... Edmund Burke (January 12, 1729 – July 9, 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. ... Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith (November 10, 1730(?) – April 4, 1774) was an Irish writer and physician known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770) (written in memory of his brother), and his plays The Good-naturd Man (1768) and She Stoops... John Hawkins For the biographer of Dr. Samuel Johnson, see Sir John Hawkins. ...


By 1791, the membership recorded by James Boswell included: Portrait of David Garrick David Garrick (February 19, 1717 – January 20, 1779) was an English actor, dramatist, theatrical producer and theatrical manager, and a friend and pupil of Samuel Johnson. ... Adam Smith, FRSE, (baptised and probably born June 5, 1723 O.S. (June 16 N.S.) – July 17, 1790) was a Scottish political economist and moral philosopher. ... Sir William Jones Sir William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages. ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan (October 30, 1751 – July 7, 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. ... 1791 (MDCCXCI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day-slower Julian calendar). ... James Boswell James Boswell (October 29, 1740 - May 19, 1795) was a lawyer, diarist, and author born in Edinburgh, Scotland. ...

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James Caulfeild, 1st Earl of Charlemont (August 18, 1728 - August 4, 1799), was an Irish statesman. ... Thomas Percy (April 13, 1729 - September 30, 1811), was Bishop of Dromore, and is remembered as editor of Tatler, Guardian, and Spectator. ... Charles James Fox Statue of Charles James Fox in Bloomsbury Square, erected 1816. ... George Fordyce (18 November 1736- 25 May 1802) was a Scottish physician and chemist. ... Joseph Banks Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, PRS (February 13, 1743 – June 19, 1820) was an English naturalist and botanist. ... Edward Gibbon (1737-1794). ... Joseph Warton (April, 1722 - February 23, 1800) was an English academic and literary critic. ... The Right Honourable Sir George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer KG PC FRS FSA (1 September 1758–10 November 1834) was a Whig politician of the late 18th and early 19th century. ...

The 19th century

The historian Henry Reeve recorded details of Club membership in his diaries. Members in the 1800s included: Henry Reeve (September 9, 1813 - October 21, 1895) was an English journalist. ...


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Other prominent 19th century members included Lord Macauly, Thomas Huxley, Lord Acton, Lord Dufferin, W. H. E. Lecky, and Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Thomas Macaulay Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician. ... Thomas Henry Huxley, FRS (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his defence of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ... John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (January 10, 1834 - June 19, 1902), English historian, only son of Sir Richard Dalberg-Acton, 7th Baronet, and grandson of the Neapolitan admiral, Sir John Acton, 6th Baronet, was born at Naples. ... Lord Dufferin as a young man The Most Honourable Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, KP, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, PC (21 June 1826–12 February 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. ... William Edward Hartpole Lecky, OM (26 March 1838–22 October 1903) was an Irish historian and publicist. ... The Most Honourable Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC (3 February 1830–22 August 1903), known as Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and as Viscount Cranborne from 1865 until 1868, was a British statesman and Prime Minister. ...

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References

  • Life of Johnson, James Boswell, 1791
  • The life and selections from the correspondence of William Whewell, Janet Mary Douglas, 1881
  • Inns and Taverns of Old London, Henry C. Shelley
  • Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, John Knox Laughton
  • "The Clubs of London", National Review, Article III, April 1857
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In English literature, The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. was a biography of Dr. Samuel Johnson by James Boswell, published in 1791. ... Not to be confused with the present-day American publication of the same name, National Review was launched in 1883 as a platform for the British Conservative Party. ...

External links

  • Old and New London: Volume 3 at British History Online

 

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