Dining Clubs - List of Dining Clubs

List of Dining Clubs

This list is incomplete. Date of founding in brackets

18th century foundations

  • Kit-Cat Club
  • Beefsteak Club (c.1705)
  • October Club (1711-1714)
  • Society of Knights of the Round Table (1720)
  • Society of Dilettanti (1732)
  • Divan Club (1744-1746)
  • The Club (1764)
  • Lunar Society (1775)
  • Bullingdon Club (1780)

19th century foundations

  • Trinity College Dublin Dining Club, London (c.1810)
  • Grillions (1812)
  • Geological Society Dining Club (1824)
  • Raleigh Club (1827)
  • Pitt Club (1835)
  • Blue Boar Club (1851)
  • X-club (1864–1893)
  • Myrmidon Club (1865)
  • The 16' Club (c.1875)
  • Ye Cherubs (Queens', Cambridge) (1895)
  • Stock Exchange Luncheon Club (1898-2006)

20th century foundations

  • Coefficients (1902)
  • Square Club (1908)
  • Chatham Dining Club (1910)
  • The Other Club (1911)
  • Cercle de l'Union Interalliée (1917)
  • Ratio Club (1949-1958)
  • Piers Gaveston Society (1977)
  • Strafford Club (1995)
  • Pudding Society (?early 20th c.)

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