At the present day there exist a multitude of other clubs, but scarcely any of them come within the scope of this volume—which the writer hopes may prove not unwelcome both as a record of interesting club possessions and as a modest contribution to the history of English social life. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Brummell, 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