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List of gentlemen's clubs in London

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List of gentlemen's clubs in London

This is a list of gentlemen's clubs in London, United Kingdom, including those no longer in existence or merged, with an additional section on those which appear in fiction.

Fictional clubs

  • Bagatelle Card Club - One of Colonel Sebastian Moran's clubs in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Empty House.
  • Beargarden Club - A St James's club in Trollope's Palliser novels
  • Bellona Club - Lord Peter Wimsey's club and location of a murder in Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
  • Billiards Club - Setting for the improbably tall tales of Jorkens, by Lord Dunsany
  • Black's Club - Jack Aubrey's, Stephen Maturin's, and Sir Joseph Blaine's club in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. O'Brian also makes Prince William, Duke of Clarence a member.
  • Blades Club - M's club in the James Bond series by Ian Fleming
  • Bratt's Club - John Beaver's club in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
  • Centaur Club - Francis Blake's club in Blake and Mortimer (comics) by Edgar P.Jacobs
  • Diogenes Club – Mycroft Holmes's club in the Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • Drones Club – Bertie Wooster's club in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories; and is also the club of several other Wodehouse characters, including Bingo Little, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Psmith, and Freddie Threepwood.
  • Etheric Explorers Club – a society featured in a series of short stories and novels by Paul Marlowe.
  • Egotist's Club - Lord Peter Wimsey's club in the Dorothy L. Sayers novels and short stories.
  • Ffeatherstonehaugh's Club – a corrupt and hedonistic establishment commemorating the libertine values of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, featured in the crime novel Clubbed to Death by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
  • Hotch Potch Club - featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.
  • Imperial Club - from the 1960s UK television comedy series Bootsie and Snudge, starring Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser.
  • Iseeum Club - another featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.
  • Junior Ganymede Club – Jeeves's club (for gentlemen's gentlemen) in P G Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.
  • Marine Commando Club, Paddington - frequented by Julian and Sandy from the BBC radio comedy Round the Horne. Note that Kenneth Horne's radio alter ego, a member of the Athenaeum, described it as "not my sort of club".
  • Old Bohemian Club - "Bunny" and Raffles' club in E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories.
  • Progress Club – a club which "intended to do great things for Liberal Party . . . and had in truth done little or nothing." in The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.
  • Senior Conservative Club - features in P.G. Wodehouse's novel Psmith in the City. Although fictional, the description of a large, Conservative-aligned club in Northumberland Avenue tallies perfectly with the real-life Constitutional Club at No.28 and Nevill's Turkish Baths at No.25, "twenty yards from the club's front door" (which baths were also used by Sherlock Holmes and Raffles).
  • The Seraphim Club - A private club featured in Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell.
  • Stoics' Club - George Pendyce's club in The Country House by John Galsworthy.
  • The Survivor's Club - featured in the novel The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.
  • The Tankerville Club - Featured in two Sherlock Holmes stories.
  • Thackeray Club - club in the movie Top Hat from 1935 with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

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