style="font-size: larger;" | The Reform Club

Founded	1836
Home Page	www.reformclub.com
Address	104 Pall Mall Pall Mall, London Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the...  SW1 SW postcode area The SW postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, is a group of postcode districts covering part of southwest London, England. The area originates from the South Western and Battersea districts of the London post town.-Postal administration:The postcode area originated in 1857 as...
Clubhouse occupied since	1841
Club established for	Whig and Liberal Liberal Party (UK) The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...  society

The Reform Club is a gentlemen's club

Gentlemen's club

A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for British upper class men in the eighteenth century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late nineteenth century. Today, some are more open about the gender and social status of...

 on the south side of Pall Mall

Pall Mall, London

Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the...

, in central London

Central London

Central London is the innermost part of London, England. There is no official or commonly accepted definition of its area, but its characteristics are understood to include a high density built environment, high land values, an elevated daytime population and a concentration of regionally,...

. Originally for men only, it changed to include the admission of women in 1981. In 2011 the subscription for membership of the Reform Club as a full UK member is £1,344.00, with a one-off entrance fee of £875.00. The club enjoys extensive reciprocity with clubs around the world, and attracts significant numbers of foreign members, including diplomats.

History

The club was founded in 1836 by Edward Ellice, MP

Member of Parliament

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 and Whig

British Whig Party

The Whigs were a party in the Parliament of England, Parliament of Great Britain, and Parliament of the United Kingdom, who contested power with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule...

 Whip, whose riches came from the Hudson's Bay Company

Hudson's Bay Company

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 but whose zeal was chiefly devoted to securing the passage of the Reform Act 1832

Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

. The new club, for members of both Houses of Parliament

Parliament of the United Kingdom

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom, British Crown dependencies and British overseas territories, located in London...

, was intended to be a centre for the radical ideas which that Bill represented; a bastion of liberal and progressive thought that became closely associated with the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

, which largely succeeded the Whigs in the later 19th century.

Brooks's Club, the headquarters of the old Whig aristocracy, was not prepared to open its doors to a flood of new men, so preliminary meetings were held at Ellice's house to plan a much larger club, which would promote "the social intercourse of the reformers of the United Kingdom". When a Liberal Member of Parliament "crossed the floor" to join or work with another party, it was expected he should resign from the club. The Club no longer represents any particular political view, being a purely social venue.

Until the decline of the Liberal Party in the earlier 20th century, it was de rigueur for Liberal MPs and Peers to be members of the Reform Club, being regarded as an unofficial party headquarters. However, the National Liberal Club

National Liberal Club

The National Liberal Club, known to its members as the NLC, is a London gentlemen's club, now also open to women, which was established by William Ewart Gladstone in 1882 for the purpose of providing club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners among the newly-enlarged electorate after the Third...

, formed under William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...

's chairmanship, was established in 1882, designed to be more "inclusive", and was geared more towards Liberal grandees and activists throughout the country.

The Reform Club's building, like the one adjacent that of the Travellers Club

Travellers Club

The Travellers Club is a gentlemen's club standing at 106 Pall Mall, London. It is the oldest of the surviving Pall Mall clubs, having been established in 1819, and was recently described by the Los Angeles Times as "the quintessential English gentleman's club." Visits are possible by invitation...

 (at number 106), was designed by Sir Charles Barry

Charles Barry

Sir Charles Barry FRS was an English architect, best known for his role in the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster in London during the mid-19th century, but also responsible for numerous other buildings and gardens.- Background and training :Born on 23 May 1795 in Bridge Street, Westminster...

 and opened in 1841. The new club was palatial

Palazzo style architecture

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, the design being based on the Farnese Palace in Rome, and its saloon is regarded as the finest room of all London clubs. The Reform was among the first senior London clubs to have bedrooms (known as chambers), and its library contains over 75,000 books, mostly of a political, historical and biographical nature; traditionally, members donate a copy of any book they write to the club's library, ever increasing its stock.

After World War II

World War II

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 and with the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major political parties of the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was a third party of negligible importance throughout the latter half of the 20th Century, before merging with the Social Democratic Party in 1988 to form the present day...

's decline, the club increasingly drew its membership from civil servants and those from the Treasury

HM Treasury

HM Treasury, in full Her Majesty's Treasury, informally The Treasury, is the United Kingdom government department responsible for developing and executing the British government's public finance policy and economic policy...

 in particular, whereas the neighbouring Travellers Club

Travellers Club

The Travellers Club is a gentlemen's club standing at 106 Pall Mall, London. It is the oldest of the surviving Pall Mall clubs, having been established in 1819, and was recently described by the Los Angeles Times as "the quintessential English gentleman's club." Visits are possible by invitation...

 became synonymous with Foreign Office officials.

The club maintains a comprehensive list of guest speaker

Public speaking

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s and musical ensemble

Musical ensemble

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s throughout the year, for example Nick Clegg

Nick Clegg

Nicholas William Peter "Nick" Clegg is a British Liberal Democrat politician who is currently the Deputy Prime Minister, Lord President of the Council and Minister for Constitutional and Political Reform in the coalition government of which David Cameron is the Prime Minister...

 and Theresa May

Theresa May

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 in 2011.

Appearances in popular culture and literature

Victorian publisher Norman Warne is shown visiting the Reform Club in the 2006 film Miss Potter.

The Reform Club appears in Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire...

's 1867 novel Phineas Finn

Phineas Finn

Phineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine. It is the second of the "Palliser" series of novels...

. The eponymous main character becomes a member of the club and there comes into contact with Liberal members of the House of Commons, who arrange to get him elected to an Irish borough. The book is one of the political novels in the Palliser series

Palliser novels

The Palliser novels are six novels by Anthony Trollope.The common thread is the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser and his wife Lady Glencora...

, and the political events it describes are a fictionalized account of the build-up to the Second Reform Act (passed in 1867) which effectively extended the franchise to the working classes.

It is used fictionally in Jules Verne

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...

's Around the World in Eighty Days; the protagonist, Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg

Phileas Fogg is the main fictional character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days.Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in eighty days, or less, for a wager of £20,000 with members of London's Reform Club. He takes the wager and leaves with Passepartout,...

, 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.

Michael Palin

Michael Palin

Michael Edward Palin, CBE FRGS is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries....

, following his fictional predecessor, also began and ended his televised journey

Michael Palin: Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days is a BBC television travel series first broadcast in 1989. It was presented by comedian and actor Michael Palin. The show was inspired by Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days, in which a character named Phileas Fogg accepts a wager to...

 around the world in 80 days at the Reform Club. The Club, like other senior London clubs, has a dress code requiring gentlemen to wear a jacket and tie; Palin preferred to remain casually dressed and, not having prepared himself properly, he was not permitted to enter the building to complete his journey as had been his intention, so his trip ended on the steps outside.

The club has been used as a location in a number of films, including the fencing scene in the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day

Die Another Day

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., "The Quiller Memorandum" (1966), "The Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970), Lindsay Anderson's "O Lucky Man!" (1973), "Quantum of Solace" (2008) and "Sherlock Holmes" (2009).

Notable members

• John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
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   Donald Adamson
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• Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith
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   David Attenborough
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• William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp
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• Hilaire Belloc
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• Charles Booth
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• Dame
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• Baroness Boothroyd
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• John Bright
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• Michael Brown
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• Guy Burgess
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• Joseph Chamberlain
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   Winston Churchill
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  , who resigned in 1913 in protest at the blackballing of a friend, Baron de Forest
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   Arthur Conan Doyle
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• Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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• John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham
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• Edward Ellice
• Lord Falconer
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• Edward Morgan Forster
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• Baroness Greengross
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• Lord Hattersley
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• Sir Michael Howard
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• Henry James
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• Lord Jenkins of Hillhead
• William Jowitt, 1st Earl Jowitt
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• Ruth Lea
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• David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, who resigned with Churchill over Baron de Forest's blackballing
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   Ravinder Maini
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   Mary Marsh
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• Lord Morgan
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   Derek Morris
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• Baroness Nicholson
• Noel Noel-Buxton, 1st Baron Noel-Buxton
• Daniel O'Connell
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• Barry Edward O'Meara
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• Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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   Stella Rimington
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• Frederick Robinson, 2nd Marquess of Ripon
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• Bertram Fletcher Robinson
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• Brian Roper
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• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
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• Walter Runciman, 1st Viscount Runciman of Doxford
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• Beppe Severgnini
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• John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon
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• Very Rev Victor Stock
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• Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
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   Kiri Te Kanawa
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• William Makepeace Thackeray
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• Jeremy Thorpe
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• Dame
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   Jo Williams
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   Tony Wright
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Further reading

• Lejeune, Anthony, with Malcolm Lewis, The Gentlemen's Clubs of London, Bracken Books, London, 1979 (reprinted 1984 and 1987), ISBN 0-946495-14-9
• Burlingham, Russell & Billis, Roger (eds), Reformed Characters. The Reform Club in History and Literature. An Anthology with Commentary (London, 2005)
• Woodbridge, George, The Reform Club 1836–1978. A History from the Club's Records (London, 1978)

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
  Gresham College
  Gresham College is an institution of higher learning located at Barnard's Inn Hall off Holborn in central London, England. It was founded in 1597 under the will of Sir Thomas Gresham and today it hosts over 140 free public lectures every year within the City of London.-History:Sir Thomas Gresham,...
  
  , 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