The Reform Club is a

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on the south side of Pall Mall in

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, England. As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it comprised an all-male membership for decades, but it was one of the first all-male clubs to change its rules to include the admission of women on equal terms in 1981. Since its founding in 1836, the Reform Club has been the traditional home for those committed to progressive political ideas, with its membership initially consisting of

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and Whigs. However, it is no longer associated with any particular political party, and it now serves a purely social function. The Reform Club currently enjoys extensive reciprocity with similar clubs around the world. It attracts a significant number of foreign members, such as diplomats accredited to the

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. Of the current membership of around 2,700, some 500 are "overseas members", and over 400 are women.

History

19th century

The club was founded by Edward Ellice,

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(MP) for Coventry and Whig

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, whose riches came from the

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but whose zeal was chiefly devoted to securing the passage of the

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; it held its first meeting at No. 104 Pall Mall on 5 May 1836. This new club, for members of both Houses of

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, was intended to be a forum for the

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ideas which the First Reform Bill represented: its purpose was to promote "the social intercourse of the reformer of the United Kingdom. The Reform Club's building was designed by renowned architect Sir

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and contracted to builders Grissell &

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. The new club was built on

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lines, the design being based on the Palazzo Farnese in

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, and its Saloon in particular is regarded as the finest of all London's clubs. It was officially opened on 1 March 1841. Facilities provided included a library which, following extensive donations from members, grew to contain over 85,000 books.

20th century

After the

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and with the old Liberal Party's further decline, the club increasingly drew its membership from civil servants. The club continued to attract a comprehensive list of guest

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s including Government Ministers

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and

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(2011), Archbishop John Sentamu (2012), and

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Liu Xiaoming (2013).

Literary associations

Besides having had many distinguished members from the literary world, including

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and

Arnold Bennett Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboratio ...

, the Reform played a role in some significant events, such as the feud between

Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...

's friend and literary executor Robbie Ross and Wilde's ex-lover

Lord Alfred Douglas Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde. At Oxford he edited an undergraduate journal, ''The Spirit Lamp'', that carried a homoer ...

. In 1913, after discovering that Lord Alfred had taken lodgings in the same house as himself with a view to stealing his papers, Ross sought refuge at the club, from where he wrote to

Edmund Gosse Sir Edmund William Gosse (; 21 September 184916 May 1928) was an English poet, author and critic. He was strictly brought up in a small Protestant sect, the Plymouth Brethren, but broke away sharply from that faith. His account of his childhoo ...

, saying that he felt obliged to return to his rooms "with firearms". Harold Owen, the brother of

Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced b ...

, called on

Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both describ ...

at the Reform after Wilfred's death, and Sassoon himself wrote a poem entitled "Lines Written at the Reform Club", which was printed for members at Christmas 1920.

Appearances in popular culture and literature

Books

The Reform Club appears in

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's novel '' Phineas Finn'' (1867). This eponymous main character becomes a member of the club and there acquaints Liberal members of the

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, who arrange to get him elected to an Irish parliamentary borough. The book is one of the political novels in the Palliser series, and the political events it describes are a fictionalized account of the build-up to the

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(passed in 1867) which effectively extended the franchise to the working classes. The club also appears in

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's ''

Around the World in Eighty Days ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...

'' (published in 1872, as a novel in 1873); the protagonist,

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, is a member of the Reform Club who sets out to circumnavigate the world on a bet from his fellow members, beginning and ending at the club. The Reform Club was used as a meeting place for MI6 operatives in Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 83ff of

Graham Greene Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...

's spy novel '' The Human Factor'' (1978, Avon Books, ). The Reform Club and its Victorian era celebrity chef Alexis Soyer play pivotal roles in MJ Carter's mystery novel ''The Devil's Feast'' (2016, Fig Tree, ).

Films and television

Michael Palin, following his fictional predecessor, also began and ended his televised journey around the world in 80 days at the Reform Club in 1989. Palin was not permitted to enter the building to complete his journey as had been his intention, so his trip ended on the steps outside. Victorian publisher

Norman Warne Norman Dalziel Warne (6 July 1868 – 25 August 1905) was the third son of publisher Frederick Warne, and joined his father's firm Frederick Warne & Co as an editor. In 1900, the company rejected Beatrix Potter's ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit ...

is depicted visiting the Reform Club in the 2006 film '' Miss Potter''. The club has been used as a location in a number of other films, including the fencing scene in the 2002

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movie ''

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'', ''

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'' (1966), ''

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'' (1970), Lindsay Anderson's ''

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'' (1973), '' The Avengers'' (1998), '' Nicholas Nickleby'' (2002), ''

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'' (2008), ''

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'' (2009), ''Paddington'' (2014) and

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's ''

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'' (2020). The club was also used in Chris Van Dusen's televised series '' Bridgerton'' as a film location in 2020.

Photoshoot

The Reform Club was the location of a photo shoot featuring Paula Yates for the 1979 summer issue of '' Penthouse''.''The Milwaukee Journal'' – 23 July 1979.

Notable members

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* Donald Adamson *

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* Sir

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* William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp *

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William Beveridge William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive and social reformer who played a central role in designing the British welfare state. His 1942 ...

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* Rt Hon Charles Booth * Dame Margaret Booth * Baroness Boothroyd * Mihir Bose *

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* Henry Brougham * Michael Brown, former Conservative MP *

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* Donald Cameron of Lochiel * Sir

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* Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman * Samuel Carter *

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* Sir

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, who resigned in 1913 in protest at the blackballing of a friend, Baron de Forest * Richard Cobden * Albert Cohen * Professor Martin Daunton * Sir

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* Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde *

Sir Charles Dilke Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet, PC (4 September 1843 – 26 January 1911) was an English Liberal and Radical politician. A republican in the early 1870s, he later became a leader in the radical challenge to Whig control of the Libe ...

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* Edward Ellice *

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* Baroness Greengross * Sir William Harcourt * Lord Hattersley *

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* Barbara Hosking * Sir

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* Sir Bernard Ingham * Sir

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* Sir John Jardine * Lord Jenkins of Hillhead * William, Earl Jowitt *

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* Roger Liddle *

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, who resigned with Churchill over Baron de Forest's blackballing * Professor Sir

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* Dame Mary Marsh * José Guilherme Merquior * James Moir *

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, a founding member * Lord Morgan * Sir Derek Morris * Baroness Nicholson * Lord Noel-Buxton *

Daniel O'Connell Daniel O'Connell (I) ( ga, Dónall Ó Conaill; 6 August 1775 – 15 May 1847), hailed in his time as The Liberator, was the acknowledged political leader of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority in the first half of the 19th century. His mobilizat ...

Barry Edward O'Meara Barry Edward O'Meara (1786–1836), born in Newtown House, Newtown-on-Sea (now known as Blackrock), Dublin, was an Irish surgeon and founding member of the Reform Club, who accompanied Napoleon to Saint Helena and became his physician, having bee ...

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* Dame

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* Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon * Bertram Fletcher Robinson * Curtis Roosevelt * Brian Roper *

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* Viscount Runciman * Lord John Russell *

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* Viscount Simon * George Smith * Sir

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* Very Rev Victor Stock * Sir Edward Sullivan *

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* Professor Alan M. Taylor * Dame

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* Caroline Thomson *

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* Jeremy Thorpe * Sir David Walker *

Chaim Weizmann Chaim Azriel Weizmann ( he, חיים עזריאל ויצמן ', russian: Хаим Евзорович Вейцман, ''Khaim Evzorovich Veytsman''; 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Russian-born biochemist, Zionist leader and Israel ...

* H. G. Wells *

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* Dame

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* Tony Wright, former Labour MP

References

External links

Reform Club website

Survey of London's entry on the Club

"The Reform Club: Architecture and the Birth of Popular Government"
lecture by Peter Marsh and Paul Vonberg at Gresham College, 25 September 2007 (available for MP3 and MP4 download)
Reform Club library pamphlets

Mary Evans Picture Library – The Club's collection of caricatures

CBC.CA Paul Kennedy's audio tour of the Club, broadcast in February 2011
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