London's gentlemen's clubs

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: List of London's gentlemen's clubs, National Liberal Club, Oriental Club, Army and Navy Club, Beefsteak Club, Marylebone Cricket Club, East India Club, Savage Club, Oxford and Cambridge Club, Carlton Club, Gresham Club, Savile Club, United University Club, Brooks's, Royal Automobile Club, Garrick Club, Travellers Club, Royal Aero Club, St James's Club, Athenaeum Club, London, Eccentric Club, Alpine Club, Reform Club, Flyfishers' Club, Watier's, White's, Turf Club, Hurlingham Club, Queen's Club, Buck's Club, Caledonian Club, The Arts Club, Roehampton Club, Green Room Club, Crockford's, Boodle's, Chelsea Arts Club, Farmers Club, Royal Over-Seas League, Constitutional Club, National Sporting Club, St Stephen's Club, Devonshire Club, Lansdowne Club, Junior Carlton Club, Special Forces Club, New Cavendish Club, The University Women's Club, City Livery Club, United Service Club, Pratt's, Naval and Military Club, Arthur's, Bath Club, Primrose Club, Royal Air Force Club, Royal Anglo-Belgian Club, Prince's Club, Unionist Club, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Bachelors' Club, Royal Thames Yacht Club, Badminton Club, Cavalry and Guards Club, Naval Club, London Sketch Club, Conservative Club, Junior Athenaeum, Royal Ocean Racing Club, City of London Club, Public Schools Club, 1920 Club, Junior Naval and Military Club, American Club, Cobden Club, Press Club, Cavalry Club, City University Club, Beaconsfield Club, Commonwealth Club, Guards' Club, Canning Club, Civil Service Club, Junior Constitutional Club, Den Norske Klub, National Conservative Club, Eighty Club, Cosmopolitan Club, Palace Club, National Union, Portland Club, Fox Club. Excerpt: This is a list of gentlemen's clubs in London, England, including those no longer functioning and some which are fictional. The National Liberal Club, known to its members as the NLC, is a London gentlemen's club, now also open to women, which was established by William Ewart Gladstone in 1882 for the purpose of providing club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners among the newly-enlarged electorate after the Third Reform Act. The club's impressive neo-gothic building over the Embankment of the river Thames is the second-largest clubhouse ever built. Designed by Alfred Waterhouse, it was not completed until 1887. Its facilities include a dining room, a bar, function rooms, a billiards room, a smoking room and reading room, as well as an outdoor riverside terrace overlooking the London Eye. It is located at 1 Whitehall Place, close to the Houses of Parliament, the Thames Embankment, and Trafalgar Square. The club's foundation stone was laid by Gladstone in 1882, when he declared "Speaking generally, I should say there could not be a less interesting occasion than the laying of the foundation-stone of a Club in London. For, after all, what are the Clubs of London? I am afraid little else than temples of luxury and ease. This, however, is a club of a very different character," and envisioned the club as a popular institution for the mass electorate. However, another of the club's founders, G.W.E. Russell, noted "We certainly never foresaw the palatial pile of terra-cotta and glazed tiles which now bears that name. Our modest object was to provide a central meeting-place for Metropolitan and provincial Liberals, where all the comforts of life should be attainable at what are called 'popular prices'" but added "at the least, we meant our Club to be a place of "ease" to the ...