List of London's gentlemen's clubs
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- See Gentlemen's club for an explanation of this particular sort of club.
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[edit] Current Gentlemen's Clubs
- Alpine Club; established in 1857
- Royal Anglo-Belgian Club; established in 1909, associated with the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
- Army and Navy Club; established in 1838
- Arts Club; established in 1863
- Athenæum Club; established in 1824
- Authors' Club; established in 1891
- Beefsteak Club
- Boodle's; established in 1762
- Brooks's; established in 1764
- Buck's Club; established in 1919
- Caledonian Club; established in 1891
- Canning Club; established in 1910 as the Argentine Club; shares premises with Naval and Military Club
- Carlton Club; established in 1832
- Cavalry and Guards Club; the merged Cavalry Club and Guards' Club, 1976
- City Livery Club; established in 1914
- City University Club; established in 1895
- Cobden Club; established in the 1870s
- Commonwealth Club; established in 1868
- East India Club; established in 1849;
- Flyfishers' Club; established 1884. Currently located at 69 Brook Street.
- Garrick Club; named after the actor David Garrick; established in 1831 at 35 King Street, Covent Garden. Moved to Garrick Street in 1864.
- Hurlingham Club; established in 1869
- In and Out Club: nickname of the Naval & Military Club
- Lansdowne Club; established in 1935
- London Sketch Club; established in 1898[1]
- Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC); established in 1786
- The National Club; established in 1845[citation needed]
- National Liberal Club; established in 1882
- Naval Club; established in 1919
- Naval & Military Club; established in 1862. (Nicknamed the "In and Out Club" after signs at the entrance to its former premises Cambridge House, copied in the new premises.)
- Den Norske Klub; established in 1887; shares premises with Naval and Military Club
- Oriental Club; established in 1824
- Oxford and Cambridge Club; established in 1821
- Phyllis Court Club; established in 1905
- Portland Club; was, prior to 1825: the 'Stratford Club' (established circa 1815)
- Pratt's Club; established in 1857
- Reform Club; established in 1836
- Roehampton Club; established in 1901
- Royal Air Force Club; established in 1917
- Royal Automobile Club; established in 1897
- Royal Over-Seas League; established in 1910
- Royal Thames Yacht Club; established in 1775
- St Stephen's Club; established in 1870
- Savage Club; established in 1857
- Savile Club; established in 1868
- Sloane Club; established in 1920
- Travellers Club; established in 1819
- Turf Club; established in 1861
- University Women’s Club; established in 1886
- White's; established in 1693
- Victory Services Club; established in 1907
[edit] Defunct or merged clubs
- Aldwych Club; established in 1910
- Albermarle Club (Ladies and Gentlemen); established in 1874
- Almack's Club; first established in 1765 til 1867; and again 1908 until 1961
- American Club; established in 1919
- Argentine Club; established in 1910; later became the Canning Club
- Arthur's; established in 1765, closed in the 1940s - former premises now occupied by the Carlton Club
- Bath Club; established in 1894
- Cavalry Club; established in 1810; merged with the Guards' Club in 1976 to form the Cavalry and Guards Club
- City of London Club; established in 1832
- Devonshire Club; established in 1874, merged with the East India Club in 1976
- Eccentric Club; established in 1890, its members were mostly elected to the East India Club in 1976
- Gresham Club; established 1843, dissolved in 1991
- Guards' Club; established in 1810; merged with the Cavalry Club in 1976 to form the Cavalry and Guards Club
- Junior Carlton Club; merged with the Carlton Club in 1976
- Marlborough Club; established in 1868, merged with the Windham Club and the Orleans Club in 1945
- Marlborough-Windham Club; established in 1945 by merger of Marlborough, Orleans and Windham Clubs, closed 1953
- Press Club; established in 1882
- Public Schools Club; merged with the East India Club in 1972
- St James's Club; established in 1857, amalgamated with Brooks' in 1978
- Sports Club; merged with the East India Club in 1938
- Union Club; est. 1822, closed 1925 - premises now 'Canada House' in Trafalgar Sq
- United Service Club; established in 1815, closed in 1978 - premises now occupied by the Institute of Directors
- United University Club; established 1n 1821, merged into the Oxford and Cambridge Club, 1972 - premises now occupied by the London Centre of the University of Notre Dame
- Windham Club; established (as the Windham House Club) in 1828, renamed 1829, merged with the Marlborough and Orleans Clubs in 1945
[edit] Fictional Gentlemen's Clubs
- The Bagatelle Card Club - One of Colonel Sebastian Moran's clubs in a Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Empty House
- Blacks Club – Jack Aubrey's London club in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin series of novels.
- Blades Club – M's private cards club in the James Bond novels, notably Moonraker.
- Le Cercle Ambassadeurs London – Feautured in the movie Dr.No
- Diogenes Club – Mycroft Holmes's club in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
- Drones Club – Bertie Wooster's club in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.
- Etheric Explorers Club – a society featured in a series of short stories and novels by Paul Marlowe.
- Junior Ganymede Club – Jeeves's club for gentlemen's gentlemen (valets) in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.
- Progress Club – a club which "intended to do great things for the Liberal Party . . . and had in truth done little or nothing." in The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.
- The Tankerville Club - Featured in two Sherlock Holmes stories.
- Winchester Club – a downmarket parody from the TV series Minder.
- Iseeum Club - featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga
- Hotch Potch Club - another club featured in Galsworthy's Saga
- Brats Club - features in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- Egotists Club - featured in Gaudy Night, a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.
- The Survivor's Club - featured in the novel The Somnambulist.
