London's Fashionable Clubs in 1900: The Marlborough Club

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London Clubs, in Imperial London, published in 1901, with this look at the Marlborough Club:

No. 32, Pall Mall, is an unpretending two-storied, narrow-frontaged house with stone facings and bay-windows, and with glazed door of oak generally kept closed.

It is, however, larger than it looks from Pall Mall, as it runs back a considerable distance into Crown Court.

This is the Marlborough, a club consisting of a small set of King Edward VII's special friends, and is, one need hardly say, a most select concern, numbering about eighty members.

Within, it differs somewhat from the gorgeous edifices of a like character, so common nowadays, being plainly furnished, without any pretence to grandeur, but well warmed and lighted, thoroughly comfortable, and with a cuisine and service of the best.

There is the usual card-room, and a capital billiard-room, and at the rear there used to be an American bowling-alley.

This club, when the King was Heir Apparent, was a convenient place for him to meet his intimate friends, and to receive and reply to his private letters.

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