The Cavalry Club was a

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gentlemen's club, which was established in 1890. In 1975, it merged with the

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, and became the Cavalry and Guards Club, which still exists today. When the Cavalry Club first occupied the site, on Piccadilly in Mayfair, in 1890, it was a proprietary club owned by an officer in the

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, but five years later, ownership passed into the hands of its members and it became a members' club. They raised the funds to build an entirely new clubhouse, which was designed by

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Dictionary of Scottish Architects: Orphoot of Mewes and Davies and completed on the site in 1908. Like many London clubs, both the Cavalry Club and the Guards' Club went through a period of serious financial hardship in the 1970s. The solution proposed was a merger. The Guards' Club was due to close anyway, so their premises closed in 1975, and their 800 members joined the renamed Cavalry Club, also bringing numerous ''

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'' with them.

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The website of the Cavalry and Guards Club, the club's successor

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