INDEX

Addison, Joseph, 19, 33

Ad Libitum Club, the, 52, 53

Albion Hotel, the, 3

Alfred Club, the, 283

Allen, Lord, 81, 82

Almack, William, 100

Almack’s, 95, 100

Alpine Club, the, 267

Alvanley, Lord, 79, 80–82, 283

American clubs, 295, 296

Amphitryon Club, the, 204–206

Apollo Club, the, 1

Arbuthnot, 26

Archer, Thomas, Lord, 31

Arlington Club, the (now the Turf Club), 181

Armstrong, Colonel, 81

Army and Navy Club, the, 244–251, 256; Junior, 256

Arnold, Samuel James, 39–43

Arthur, John, 71, 75

Arthur, Robert, 75

Arthur’s, 63, 69–71, 144, 145, 148, 256

Arts Club, the, 294

Ashburton, Dunning, Lord, 115

“Asiatic Sundays” at the Athenæum, 280

Athenæum Club, the, 148, 162, 164, 256, 275–283; Junior, 256

Aubrey, Lieutenant-Colonel, 188

Aylott, Sir James, 222–223

Bachelors’ Club, the, 221

Badminton Club, the, 192

Baker, Mr., Master of Lloyd’s, 21

Baldwin Club, the, 189

Banderet, Henry, 104, 106

Bath Club, the, 163

Bathurst, Benjamin, 122

Batson’s, 9

Beaconsfield, the Earl of, 278–279

Beauclerc, Topham, 265, 266

Beaufort, Henry, Duke of, 66, 67, 165

Bedford Coffee-house, the, 28

Bedford, Francis, Duke of, 29

Beefsteak Club, the first, 19; the present, 52, 53, 184

Beefsteaks, the Sublime Society of, 37–53, 87, 131

Belfast, Lord, 304

Bentinck, George (“Big Ben”), 306–307

Bentinck, Lord George, 160–161

Bentinck, Lord Henry, 188

Bessborough, the Earl of, 112, 114

Black, William, 235, 236

Blackballing, 160, 164

“Bloods,” 13

Bold Bucks, the, 17

Bolingbroke, Viscount, 26

Boodle’s (formerly the Savoir Vivre), 63–69, 98, 145, 165

Booth, Edwin, 295

Boswell, James, 267

Bourke, the Hon. Algernon, 50, 85, 86

Bowes, the late Mr., 56

Brackley, Lord, 160–161

Bridge, introduction of, 188

Bright, John, 235

British Coffee-house, the, 12

Broadhurst, Mr., 21

Brook Club, the (New York), 34

Brooks’s, 63, 98, 99–122, 129, 145, 189, 256

Brooks, the proprietor of the club-house, 98, 100, 101, 103, 104

Brothers’ Club, the, 26

Brougham, Lord, 120–121, 188

312Brummell, Beau, 78–80, 109–110, 172

Bucks, the Society of, 33

Burke, Edmund, 266

Burlington Fine Arts Club, the, 274–275

Button’s, 3, 24, 27

Byerley, Thomas, 12

Byng, the Hon. Frederick, 121–122

Byron, Lord, 283

Caledonian, 256

Cambridge Beefsteak Club, the, 55

Camelford, Lord, and the “blood,” 13–14

Candidates for election, 158

Cardigan, Lord, 307–308

Carlton Club, the, 147, 148, 223–225, 256

Castle Tavern, the, kept by Belcher and Spring, 32

Cavalry Club, the, 255

Cavendish, the Hon. Henry, 272–273

Chapter Coffee-house, the, 9, 10, 11

Chatterton, 10

Chelmsford Beefsteak Club, the, 54

Cheshire Cheese, the, 4–7

Child’s, 3, 9

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 224

Cibber, Colley, 76

Cider Cellar, the, 31

City Pickwick Club, the, 20

Clarke, Chamberlain, 8

Clarke, Sir Edward, 20

Club, the first, 1; evolution of the, 2; increase in the number of clubs, 135; change in club-life, 136; opposition to improvements, 138; washed silver in change, and other customs, 145; smoking in clubs, 146; strangers visiting clubs, 147; bedrooms for members, 151; increased comfort, 151–152; clubs of to-day and their members, 156; elections and committees, 157; hall-porters, 174; porters’ boxes, 177; late sittings, 178; the Garrick the “latest” club, 183; foreign clubs taxed, 185; sporting-club-men, 191; decrease in drinking, 192; club-men and their foibles, 195–203; restaurant clubs, 205; registration of clubs, 207

Club-man, the modern, 139

Cocoa-tree, the, 1, 3, 63, 128–132

Coffee-houses, 1, 2, 3

Colenso, Bishop, 279

Committee, the club, 158

Conservative Club, the, 133, 147, 227–228

Constitutional Club, the, 236

Cooking, club, 170

Cosmopolitan Club, the, 267–268

Coventry, Lord, 215

Coventry House, 217

Crockford, Benjamin, 190, 228–232, 254

Crockford’s, 94, 185, 186, 190–191, 229–232

Croker, John Wilson, 275

Crown and Anchor Tavern, 35

Cunningham, Colonel, 13

Curtis, Sir William, 302–303

Daffy Club, the, 32

Damer, Colonel, 232

Daniel’s, 9

Davies’s “Life of Garrick” quoted, 76

Defoe, Daniel, 19

Devonshire Club, the, 228–232

Devil Tavern, the, 1

Dickens and the George and Vulture, 20; his chair, 278; reconciliation with Thackeray, 280

Dickens Club, the, 7

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 31

Dilettanti Society, 256, 257–263

Disraeli, Isaac, 278

Dryden, John, 24, 25, 28

Dudley, Lord, 35

Duff, Captain William, 244

Durnford, Bishop, 279

East India United Service Club, the, 254–255

Eccentric members, 198

Eclipse, the race-horse, 297–298

Edinburgh Club, the, 59

Edward VII, King, 165, 204, 205, 219

Edwards, Mr., and the introduction of coffee-houses, 18

Elections, 157

313Ellice, Edward, 232

Elliot, Lettsom, 282

Essex Head, the, 8

Estcourt, Richard, 19

Etiquette at coffee-houses, 17–18

Evans’s, 31–32

“Everlasting,” the, 34

Fines, 182

Fitzgerald, George Robert, 115–118

FitzHarris, Lord, 302

Foote, Samuel, 28–29

Forrest’s, 3

Fox, Charles James, 102, 106, 111, 120, 125–127

Fox Club, the, 124, 126–127

Francis, Sir Philip, 110–111

Fraser, Sir William, 283

Gambling, French and English, 185–187

Gambling clubs, 185–188

Gardner, Mr. John, 19

Garraway’s Coffee-house, 3, 12, 21–23

Garrick, David, 28–29, 37, 265, 288–290

Garrick Club, the, 148, 183, 193, 256, 285–294

Garth, Dr. Samuel, 271

Garway, Thomas, 22

Gay, 26

Gayner, the late Mr., 65–68

George III, King, 3

George IV, King, 99, 111–114, 133, 171, 173, 302–303

George and Vulture, the first coffee-house, 18, 19, 20

George’s, 9

Giles’s, 3

Gladstone, W. E., 107, 166, 239, 257

Golden Fleece Club, the, 34

Goldsmid, Sir Julian, 219

Goldsmith, Oliver, 10, 266

Goosetree’s, 98, 109

Graham’s Club, 188

Granville, Lord, 108

Great Bottle Club, the, 33

Greaves, Samuel, 8

Grecian, the, 3

Green, John, 31–32

Greville, Charles, 160–161

Gronow’s “Reminiscences” quoted, 137

Groom’s, 19

Guards’ Club, the, 148, 253–254, 256

Guests, 147, 148

Gurney, Hudson, 58

Gwynn, Nell, 247

Haggis Club, the, 59

Haines, Thomas, 27–28

Hall-porter, the, 174

Hamlin’s, 9

Hammond, Mr., 11

Hawkins, Sir John, 265

Hayward, Abraham, 279

Heidegger, John James, 71–74

Hell-Fires, the, 17, 19

Hill, Thomas, 292–293

Hogarth, William, 19, 29, 37, 289

Hole-in-the-Wall Club, the, 57

Hood, Tom, quoted, 150

Hook, Theodore, quoted, 143, 179, 189, 210, 279–280

House-dinners, 145, 146

Humbugs, the, 33

Hunlock, Sir Hugh, 215

Hurst, Thomas, 289

Irving, Sir Henry, 20, 281

Isthmian Club, the, 219–220

“Je ne sçai quoi” Club, the, 33

Jerdan, William, 42

Jockey Club, the, 297–299

Johnson, Dr., 2, 4, 5–8, 149, 151, 221, 265, 289

Johnson Club, the, 6–7

Jonathan’s, 3, 12

Jones, Inigo, 29

Jonson, Ben, 1, 4

Junior Athenæum Club, the, 256

Junior Carlton Club, the, 147, 173, 226–227, 256

Junior Constitutional Club, the, 236

Junior Naval and Military Club, the, 253

Junior United Service Club, the, 244, 251, 256

Kemble, John, 32, 49

Kemble, John Philip, 288

King of Clubs, the, 34

314Kinglake, Alexander, 281

King’s Coffee-house, 29

King’s Head, the, 7

Kit-Kat Club, the, 270

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 29–30

Lade, Sir John, 126

Lambs’ Club, the (New York), 296

Landseer, Sir Edwin, 281

Late sittings, 178

Lawn-market Club, the, 59

Leech, John, 20

Leinster, the Duke of, 39

Lely, Sir Peter, 29

Lewis, T., 25

Lindley, Ozias, 57

Literary Club, the, 263–267

Little-man’s Coffee-house, 12

Lloyd’s Coffee-house, 21

Locker, Frederick, 63

London Coffee-house, the, 20

Lotus Club, the, 220

Low, David, 30, 31

Lowther, Sir James, 9

Lying Club, the, 33

Macaulay, Lord, 278

M’Clean, the highwayman, 94

Macklin, Charles, 288

Mackreth, Sir Robert, 91, 129

Maison Dorée Club, the, 206

Malcolm, Sir John, 212–213

Manning, Cardinal, 279

Marlborough Club, the, 147, 218–219

Martindale, John, 77

Mathews, Charles, 286–287

Mermaid Tavern, the, 1

Miles and Evans’s, 98

Military clubs, 240

Mills, Pemberton, 80

Mitre Tavern, 6, 8

Montagu, the Duke of, 72–74

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 270–271

Montfort, Lord, 90–91, 94

Morris, Charles, 47–50

“Mug-house clubs,” 24

Murphy, Arthur, 290

Nando’s, 3

Napoleon III, the Emperor, 82, 248–249

National Club, the, 237–238

National Liberal Club, the, 195, 236

National Sporting Club, the, 32

Naval and Military Club, the, 251–253, 256

Norfolk, Charles, eleventh Duke of, 46–50, 131–132

Northumberland, the Countess of, 77

North’s, 9

Octagon rooms at St. James’s Club, 217; at Naval and Military, 252

October Club, the, 34

Odd Fellows’ Club, 33

O’Kelly, Colonel, 298–299

Oldfield, Mrs., 290–291

Old Man’s Coffee-house, 3, 12

Old Slaughter’s, 3

Orford, the Earl of (Admiral Russell), 31

Oriental Club, the, 211–215

Orleans Club, the, 221

Orsay, Count d’, 82, 86

Osborne, Bernal, 236

“Ourselves,” 7

Oxford, Robert Harley, Earl of, 26

Oxford and Cambridge Club, the, 148, 238–239, 240

Oxford and Cambridge New University Club, the, 245

Ozinda’s, 3

Past Overseers’ Society, the, 59–62

Pattison, Mark, 278

Payn, James, 235, 236

Peele’s Coffee-house, 8

Pelham, Henry, 94

Percival, the late Mr., 83, 84

“Percy Anecdotes,” the, 13

Percy Coffee-house, the, 12

Permanent official, the, 195–197

Piazza Coffee-house, the, 30

Pilgrims, the Society of, 33

Pinche’s School, Dr., 20

Pitt, William, 99

Players’ Club, the (New York), 295–296

Pon’s Coffee-house, 14

Pope, Alexander, 25, 26

Porters’ boxes, 177

Portland Club, the, 188

Pratt’s, 36

315Prince of Wales Coffee-house, the, 13

Pulteney, William (afterwards Earl of Bath), 89–90

Purl Drinkers, the, 33

Queen’s Arms, the, 8

Queensberry, the Marquis of, 230–231

Radcliffe, Dr., 29–30

Raggett, father and son, 77, 78, 83, 222

Raikes, Dandy, 120

Rainbow, the (now Groom’s), 19

Raleigh Club, the, 192

Reform Club, the, 232–236

Restaurant clubs, 204

Revett, Nicholas, 258

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 265

Rich, Henry, 37

Rivers, Lord, 93

Robertson, Joseph, 13

Robin’s, 12

Rogers, Samuel, 35

Rosee, Pasqua, 18, 19

Roxburghe Club, the, 268–269

Royal Cork Yacht Club, the, 308

Royal Exchange, the, 11, 12

Royal Naval Club, 255

Royal Societies’ Club, the, 273–274

Royal Society Club, the, 272–273

Royal Thames Yacht Club, the, 310

Royal Yacht Squadron, 299–308

Rules and regulations, 167–170

Rump Steak Club, 7

St. Dunstan’s, 7

St. James’ Club, the, 184, 215–218, 256

St. James’ Coffee-house, 3

St. Leger, Colonel, 119–120

Sala, George Augustus, his definition of “club,” 135, 235, 294

Salisbury, Lord, 226

Salting, George, 134

Samsonic Society, the, 33

Savage Club, the, 294

Savile Club, the, 284

Savoir Vivre, the (now Boodle’s), 65

Sawdust Club, 7

Scott, General, 94–95

Scriblerus Club, the, 26

Selwyn, George, 95–97, 109, 112–114, 130–131

Shakespeare, 1, 4

Shand, the hall-porter at the Turf Club, 174

Shenstone, 9

Sheridan, R. B., 30, 111–115, 133

Silver, change given in washed, 145

Simpson, William, 6

Smith, Bobus, 34–35

Smith, Major-General (“Hyder Ali”), 111

Smith, Tippoo, 111

Smoking in taverns and clubs, 4, 146, 281, 283–284

Smyrna, the, 3, 12

Snuff-boxes formerly in clubs, 146

Soaping Club, the Edinburgh, 59

“Social Villagers,” the, 34

Soyer, Alexis, 233–235

Spencer, Herbert, 282–283

Spenser, Edmund, 34

Spring, Samuel, 173

Steele, Sir Richard, 19, 75, 271

Stepney, Sir Thomas, 119–120, 171

Stewart, Admiral Keith, 115–117

Strangers in clubs, 147

Stuart, James, 258

Sunday at clubs, 194

Supper clubs, 207

Sussex, the Duke of, 38–41

Swift, Jonathan, 19, 25, 26, 27

Sydney, Viscount, 100

Sylvester, Joshua, 4

Tatham, Dr., 279

Tatler, the, quoted, 23, 75

Taylor, William, 58

Taxes on club funds in France and Germany, 185

Temperance, growth of, 193–194

Thackeray quoted, 150, 211, 212, 235, 278, 280

Thatched House Club, the, 131–134

Thatched House Tavern, the, 256, 260, 263, 300

The Club, 263–267

Thespian Club, the, 33

Thornhill, Sir James, 30

Thrale, Henry, 8, 265

Tobacco-box belonging to Past Overseers of St. Margaret’s, Westminster, 59–62

316Todd, Harry, 6

Tom’s, 2, 3, 12, 24, 28

Tourville, Admiral de, 31

Travellers’ Club, the, 148, 162, 163, 209–211, 256

Truby’s, 3

True Blue Club, the, 56

Turf Club, the, 162, 174, 181, 184, 218, 256, 263

Tyrawley, Lord, and the Frenchmen, 14–17

Ude, Louis Eustache, 230, 231, 232

Union Club, the, 222

United Service Club, the (at first the General Military Club), 240–244, 251, 256

United University Club, the, 239, 240

Uxbridge, Lord, 301–302

Vernon, Admiral, 21

Visitors in clubs, 147

Walpole, Horace, quoted, 77, 87, 128, 129, 259

Walpole, Sir Robert, 21, 89–90

“Water Club,” the, 309

Watier’s Club, 171–172

Webster, Sir Whistler, 77, 83

Wellington, the Duke of, 86

Wellington Club, the, 222

West, Benjamin, 288

West, James, 31

West, Thomas (proprietor of Tom’s), 24–25

Wet Paper Club, the, 11

Whistler, 53

White, Francis, 71

White, Mrs., 71, 74, 75

White’s, 2, 3, 50, 69–71, 74–98, 99, 129, 144, 145, 146, 165, 169, 189, 191, 256

Wilberforce, Samuel, 109

Wilbraham, Roger, 110–111

Wilkes, John, 19, 37

Will’s, 3, 12, 24, 25, 28

Windham, William, 220–221

Windham Club, the, 220

Yarborough, Lord, 302, 305

York, Frederick, Duke of, 99, 119–120

Young Man’s Coffee-house, 3, 12

Zoffany, 29

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BILLING AND SONS, LTD., PRINTERS, GUILDFORD

Transcriber’s Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.