The Travellers' Club

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Sir Walter Besant, in The Fascination of London, published in 1903, continues his survey of London's clubs with a look at the Athenaeum and the Travellers' Club:

The Travellers' Club, next door to the Reform Club, also the work of Sir Chalres Barry, is in an Italian style.

One of the rules of this club is that no person shall be eligible for membership who shall not have travelled out of the British Isles at least 500 miles in a direct line from London.

The Athenaeum is one of the most princely of clubs.

It was established in 1823, and the present house was built about half a dozen years later.

Decimus Burton was the architect, and his work is Grecian, with a frieze copied from the famous procession in the Parthenon.

The recently-added (1899) storey has been the subject of much criticism.

Among those present at the preliminary meeting we find the names of Sir Humphrey Davy, Sir Francis Chantrey, Sir Thomas Lawrence, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Moore and Faraday.

Theodore Hook was one of the most popular members.

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