PREFACE.
CONTENTS. Page ORIGIN OF CLUBS 1 MERMAID CLUB 8 APOLLO CLUB 10
ORIGIN OF CLUBS.
THE MERMAID CLUB.
THE APOLLO CLUB.
EARLY POLITICAL CLUBS.
THE OCTOBER CLUB.
THE SATURDAY, AND BROTHERS CLUBS.
THE SCRIBLERUS CLUB.
THE CALVES' HEAD CLUB.
THE KING'S HEAD CLUB.
STREET CLUBS.
THE MOHOCKS.
BLASPHEMOUS CLUBS.
MUG-HOUSE CLUBS.
THE KIT-KAT CLUB.
THE TATLER'S CLUB IN SHIRE-LANE.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY CLUB.
THE COCOA-TREE CLUB.
ALMACK'S CLUB.
ALMACK'S ASSEMBLY-ROOMS.
BROOKES'S CLUB.
"FIGHTING FITZGERALD" AT BROOKES'S.
ARTHUR'S CLUB.
WHITE'S CLUB.
BOODLE'S CLUB.
THE BEEF-STEAK SOCIETY.
CAPTAIN MORRIS, THE BARD OF THE BEEF-STEAK SOCIETY.
BEEF-STEAK CLUBS.
CLUB AT TOM'S COFFEE-HOUSE.
THE KING OF CLUBS.
WATIER'S CLUB.
MR. CANNING AT THE CLIFFORD-STREET CLUB.
ECCENTRIC CLUBS.
JACOBITE CLUB.
THE WITTINAGEMOT OF THE CHAPTER COFFEE-HOUSE.
THE ROXBURGHE CLUB DINNERS.
THE SOCIETY OF PAST OVERSEERS, WESTMINSTER.
THE ROBIN HOOD.
THE BLUE-STOCKING CLUB.
THE IVY-LANE CLUB.
THE ESSEX HEAD CLUB.
THE LITERARY CLUB.
GOLDSMITH'S CLUBS.
THE DILETTANTI SOCIETY.
THE ROYAL NAVAL CLUB.
THE WYNDHAM CLUB.
THE TRAVELLERS' CLUB.
THE UNITED SERVICE CLUB.
THE ALFRED CLUB.
THE ORIENTAL CLUB.
THE ATHENAEUM CLUB.
THE UNIVERSITY CLUB.
ECONOMY OF CLUBS.
THE UNION CLUB.
THE GARRICK CLUB.
THE REFORM CLUB.
THE CARLTON CLUB.
THE CONSERVATIVE CLUB.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE CLUB.
THE GUARDS' CLUB.
THE ARMY AND NAVY CLUB.
THE JUNIOR UNITED SERVICE CLUB.
CROCKFORD'S CLUB.
"KING ALLEN," "THE GOLDEN BALL," AND SCROPE DAVIES.
THE FOUR-IN-HAND CLUB.
WHIST CLUBS.
PRINCE'S CLUB RACQUET COURTS.
AN ANGLING CLUB.
THE RED LIONS.
THE COVENTRY, ERECTHEUM, AND PARTHENON CLUBS.
ANTIQUARIAN CLUBS, THE NOVIOMAGIANS.
THE ECCENTRICS.
DOUGLAS JERROLD'S CLUBS.
CHESS CLUBS.
APPENDIX.
ALMACK'S.
CLUBS AT THE THATCHED HOUSE.
THE KIT-KAT CLUB. (2)
WATIER'S CLUB. (2)
CLUBS OF 1814.
GAMING-HOUSES KEPT BY LADIES.
FOOTNOTES:
Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
On page 47, "Mrs. Read's" should possibly be "Mr. Read's".
On page 100, "Sheridan had no personal dislike" should possibly be "Selwyn had no personal dislike".
Martin Folkes is also spelled Martin Foulkes.
On page 177, "set in half-a-dozen barbers" should possibly be "sent in half-a-dozen barbers".
On page 287, "Woolbidding" should possibly be "Woolbeding".
CLUB LIFE OF LONDON.
Captain Charles Morris.
Engraved by W. Greatbatch from the Original Picture in the Possession of the Family.
CLUB LIFE OF LONDON
WITH
ANECDOTES OF THE CLUBS, COFFEE-HOUSES
AND TAVERNS OF THE METROPOLIS
DURING THE 17th, 18th, AND 19th CENTURIES.
BY
JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A.
Logo of Beef-steak Society
See Beef-steak Society, p. 143.
IN TWO VOLUMES.—VOL. I.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, PUBLISHER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY.
1866.
PRINTED BY
JOHN EDWARD TAYLOR, LITTLE QUEEN STREET,
LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS.
