List of Athenaeum Club members
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The following are known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London.
Founders[edit]
- John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder)[1]
- James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder)[2]
- Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse)[3][4]
- Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman)[1]
- Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary)[4][5]
- Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal)[6]
- Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)[4]
- Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)[4]
Members[edit]
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- Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)[4]
- Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)[4]
- Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896)[7]
- Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)[4]
- Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)[4]
- Alexander Bain (1818–1903)[4]
- Roger Bannister (1929–2018)[citation needed]
- Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860)[4]
- Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953)[4]
- Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933)[4]
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857)[8]
- Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912)[9]
- Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890)[4]
- Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891)[10]
- Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)[citation needed]
- John Brett (1831–1902)[4]
- John Bright (1811–1889)[4]
- Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922)[4]
- Robert Browning (1812–1889)[4]
- William Buckland (1784–1856)[4]
- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)[4]
- John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925)[11]
- William Burges (1827–1881)[4]
- Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896)[4]
- Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926)[4]
- Frederick Burton (1816–1900)[4]
- Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)[12]
- George Busk (1807–1886)[13]
- William Butterfield (1814–1900)[4]
- Arthur Buxton (1882–1958)[14]
- George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)[4]
- George Canning (1770–1827)[4]
- Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)[4]
- Robert Chambers (1802–1871)[4]
- Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841)[4]
- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)[4]
- Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)[citation needed]
- Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939)[15]
- John Collier (1850–1934)[4]
- Charles Darwin (1809–1892)[4]
- William Reid Dick (1879–1961)[4]
- Charles Dickens (1812–1870)[4]
- Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)[16]
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)[4]
- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–1898)[4]
- Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)[17]
- Richard Doyle (1824–1883)[4]
- George du Maurier (1834–1896)[4]
- Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911)[4]
- Sir Alfred East (1849–1913)[4]
- Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)[citation needed]
- Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)[citation needed]
- Edward Elgar (1857–1934)[18]
- Thomas Faed (1826–1900)[4]
- Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927)[4]
- John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874)[4]
- Robert James Forbes (1900–1973)[4]
- John Forster (1812–1876)[4]
- Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928)[4]
- Edward Frankland (1825–1899)[19]
- William Powell Frith (1819–1909)[4]
- Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934)[4]
- Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878)[4]
- Alec Guinness (1914–2000)[citation needed]
- H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)[20]
- George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)[4]
- James Duffield Harding (1797–1863)[4]
- Philip Hardwick (1792–1870)[4]
- Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892)[4]
- Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)[4]
- Augustus Hare (1834–1903)[citation needed]
- Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892)[21]
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)[22]
- Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)[4]
- William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)[4]
- Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)[23]
- John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890)[4]
- Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)[4]
- Washington Irving (1783–1859)[4]
- Henry James (1843–1916)[24]
- PD James, author (1920-2014)
- Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828)[4]
- William Goscombe John (1860–1952)[4]
- Owen Jones (1809–1874)[4]
- Thomas Jones (1870–1955)[25]
- John Maynard Keynes (1942–1946)[26]
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)[4]
- William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)[4]
- Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)[4]
- Andrew Lang (1844–1912)[4]
- Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)[4]
- Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896)[4]
- John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)[4]
- John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)[27]
- Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)[4]
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)[4]
- Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)[4]
- Frederic Madden (1801-1873)[citation needed]
- Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892)[4]
- Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)[28]
- Frederick Maurice (1805–1872)[4]
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)[4]
- Theresa May (b. 1956)[29]
- Henry Melvill (1798–1871)[4]
- Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)[citation needed]
- Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)[citation needed]
- John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)[4]
- Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896)[4]
- Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)[4]
- Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)[citation needed]
- Patrick Moore (1923–2012)[citation needed]
- William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863)[4]
- John Nash (1752–1835)[4]
- Richard Owen (1804–1892)[4]
- Robert Peel (1788–1850)[4]
- Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937)[4]
- John Percy FRS (1817–1889)[30]
- Cooper Perry (1856–1938)[citation needed]
- St John Philby (1885–1960)[citation needed]
- Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897)[31]
- Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)[citation needed]
- Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902)[4]
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)[4]
- Richard Redgrave (1804–1888)[4]
- Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)[citation needed]
- George Richmond (1809–1896)[4]
- Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)[4]
- David Roberts (1796–1864)[4]
- Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)[4]
- John Ruskin (1819–1900)[4]
- Lord John Russell (1792–1878)[4]
- Owen Rutter (1889–1944)[citation needed]
- John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)[4]
- Archibald Sayce (1845-1933)[32]
- Jimmy Savile (1926–2011)[33]
- John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)[4]
- Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912)[4]
- Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850)[4]
- John H. Smythe (1844–1908)[citation needed]
- Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869)[4]
- Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927)[4]
- William Somerville (1771–1860)[citation needed]
- Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)[34]
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)[35]
- Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867)[4]
- Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)[4]
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)[4]
- George Edmund Street (1824–1881)[4]
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)[citation needed]
- John Addington Symonds (1807–1871)[4]
- Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882)[4]
- Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903)[4]
- Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)[4]
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)[4]
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)[4]
- William Turner Thiselton-Dyer[36]
- Simon Thompson (b. 1959)[37]
- William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925)[4]
- Rick Trainor (b. 1948)[citation needed]
- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)[4]
- Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851)[4]
- John Tyndall (1820–1893)[4]
- Henry Vaughan (1809-1899)[38]
- Gore Vidal (1925–2012)[citation needed]
- William Walton (1902–1983)[citation needed]
- John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)[4]
- George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)[4]
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)[4]
- Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856)[4]
- William Whewell (1794–1866)[4]
- Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873)[4]
- William Wilberforce (1759–1833)[4]
- Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892)[4]
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Sources[edit]
- Ward, Humphry (1926). History of the Athenaeum 1824–1925. London.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Cowell, Frank Richard (1975). The Athenaeum: Club and Social Life in London, 1824–1974. London: Heinemann. ISBN 0-435-32010-6.