List of London's gentlemen's clubs

:"See Gentlemen's club for an explanation of this particular sort of club."

Current Gentlemen's Clubs

*Alpine Club; established in 1857 [http://www.alpine-club.org.uk/]
*Royal Anglo-Belgian Club; established in 1909, associated with the Royal Thames Yacht Club.
*Army and Navy Club; established in 1838 [http://www.armynavyclub.co.uk/]
*Arts Club; established in 1863 [http://www.theartsclub.co.uk/]
*Athenæum Club; established in 1824 [http://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/]
*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 [http://www.caledonianclub.com/]
*Canning Club; established in 1910 as the Argentine Club; shares premises with Naval and Military Club
*Carlton Club; established in 1832 [http://www.carltonclub.co.uk/index.asp]
*Cavalry and Guards Club; the merged Cavalry Club and Guards' Club, 1976 [http://www.cavgds.co.uk/]
*City Livery Club; established in 1914 [http://www.cityliveryclub.com/]
*City University Club; established in 1895 [http://www.cityuniversityclub.co.uk/]
*Cobden Club; established in the 1870s [http://www.cobdenclub.co.uk/]
*Commonwealth Club; established in 1868 [http://www.thecommonwealthclub.co.uk/]
*East India Club; established in 1849; [http://www.eastindiaclub.com/]
*Farmers Club; established in 1842; [http://www.thefarmersclub.com/]
*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. [http://www.garrickclub.co.uk/]
*Goodenough Club; established in 2001 [http://club.goodenough.ac.uk/about0.html]
*Hurlingham Club; established in 1869 [http://www.hurlinghamclub.org.uk/]
*Lansdowne Club; established in 1935 [http://www.lansdowneclub.com/]
*London Sketch Club; established in 1898 [http://www.londonsketchclub.com/]
*Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC); established in 1786 [http://www.lords.org/mcc/about-mcc/]
* The National Club; established in 1845Fact|date=May 2008
*National Liberal Club; established in 1882 [http://www.nlc.org.uk/nlc.htm]
*Naval Club; established in 1919 [http://www.navalclub.co.uk/]
*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.) [http://www.navalandmilitaryclub.co.uk/]
*Den Norske Klub; established in 1887; shares premises with Naval and Military Club
*New Cavendish Club; established in 1920 [http://www.newcavendishclub.co.uk/]
*Oriental Club; established in 1824 [http://www.orientalclub.org.uk/]
*Oxford and Cambridge Club; established in 1821 [http://www.oxfordandcambridgeclub.co.uk/]
*Phyllis Court Club; established in 1906 [http://www.phylliscourt.co.uk/]
*Portland Club; was, prior to 1825: the 'Stratford Club' (established circa 1815) [http://www.theportlandclub.com/info.php?info_id=1]
*Pratt's Club; established in 1857
*Queen's Club; established in 1886 [http://www.queensclub.co.uk/]
*Reform Club; established in 1836 [http://www.reformclub.com/]
*Roehampton Club; established in 1901 [http://www.roehamptonclub.co.uk/]
*Royal Air Force Club; established in 1917 [http://www.rafclub.org.uk/]
*Royal Automobile Club; established in 1897 [http://www.royalautomobileclub.co.uk/]
*Royal Over-Seas League; established in 1910 [http://www.rosl.org.uk/]
*Royal Thames Yacht Club; established in 1775 [http://royalthames.co.uk/]
*St Stephen's Club; established in 1870 [http://www.ststephensclub.co.uk/]
*Savage Club; established in 1857 [http://www.savageclub.com/]
*Savile Club; established in 1868 [http://www.savileclub.co.uk/]
*Sloane Club; established in 1920 [http://www.sloaneclub.co.uk/]
*Travellers Club; established in 1819 [http://www.thetravellersclub.org.uk/]
*Turf Club; established in 1861
*University Women’s Club; established in 1883 [http://www.universitywomensclub.com/]
*White's; established in 1693
*Victory Services Club; established in 1907 [http://www.vsc.co.uk/]

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. Actually, The Eccentric Club appeared in the British history a number of times: first time founded in 1781, then - in 1858, and finally - in 1890, in the mid-1980s it closed down for renovations and then its premises in Ryder St, Mayfair, were, effectively, sold to the developers. In 2007-2008 a group of dedicated volunteers set out to [http://www.eccentricclub.co.uk/ re-establish The Eccentric Club] .
*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
*Watier's
*Windham Club; established (as the Windham House Club) in 1828, renamed 1829, merged with the Marlborough and Orleans Clubs in 1945

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".
* Brats Club - features in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
* Le Cercle Ambassadeurs London – Featured 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. Also the name of one of several clubs patronised by Bustopher Jones, “the Cat about Town”, a character in a poem in T. S. Eliot’s Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
* Etheric Explorers Club – a society featured in a series of short stories and novels by Paul Marlowe.
* Egotists Club - featured in Gaudy Night, a Lord Peter Wimsey novel by Dorothy L. Sayers.
* Ffeatherstonehaugh's Club – a corrupt and hedonistic establishment commemorating the libertine values of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, featured in the crime novel “Clubbed to Death” by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
* Hotch Potch Club - featured in John Galsworthy's 'Forsyte Saga'.
* Imperial Club - from the 1960s UK television comedy series Bootsie and Snudge, starring Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser.
* Iseeum Club - another club featured in Galsworthy's "The Forsyte Saga"
* 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 Survivor's Club - featured in the novel The Somnambulist.
* The Tankerville Club - Featured in two Sherlock Holmes stories.
* Winchester Club – a downmarket parody from the TV series "Minder".

See also

* List of American gentlemen's clubs
*Association of London Clubs [http://www.alclubs.org.uk]