London's Fashionable Clubs in 1900: The National Liberal Club

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Arthur H. Beavan had this to say, in Imperial London, first published in 1901, about the National Liberal Club:

Of exactly opposite political opinion to the Constitutional Club, the National Liberal Club in Whitehall Place is known to thousands who are not politicians, as a trysting-place where they can discuss business matters with its hospitable members.

Like the Constitutional, its membership runs to close upon 7000, but it has no entrance fee.

The smoking-room, a large saloon in the basement, is extremely comfortable, and all the appliances for conducting business by wire, telephone, etc, are excellent; in fact, it is more a business and political centre than a social club.

Naturally, the presiding genius loci is the late Rt. Hon. W. E. Gladstone, whose bust is conspicuous just off the entrance-hall.

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