The Primrose Club was a short-lived political

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gentlemen's club founded in 1886 and located at 4-5 Park Place, St. James's. It was aligned to the

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party, with members having to pledge support. It was launched as a bid to combine the explosion of the popularity of clubs in London at the end of the nineteenth century with the phenomenal success of the Conservative-aligned

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. At first it proved highly successful, with ''

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'' reporting 6,500 members, but within a decade this had already shrunk to 5,500, and by 1910 it had just 350 members, and was disbanded shortly afterwards.Antonia Taddei, ''London clubs in the late nineteenth century'' (Oxford University discussion paper, 1999), p. 20

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