Primrose Club
The Primrose Club was a short-lived political London gentlemen's club founded in 1886 and located at 4-5 Park Place, St. James's. It was aligned to the Conservative party, with members having to pledge support. It was launched as a bid to combine the explosion of the popularity of clubs in London at the end of the nineteenth century with the phenomenal success of the Conservative-aligned Primrose League.
At first it proved highly successful, with Whitaker's Almanack reporting 6,500 members, but within a decade this had already shrunk to 5,500, and by 1910 it had just 350 members, and was disbanded shortly afterwards.[1]
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- ^ Antonia Taddei, London clubs in the late nineteenth century (Oxford University discussion paper, 1999), p. 20
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Coordinates: 51°30′22.56″N 0°8′26.34″W / 51.5062667°N 0.1406500°W
Categories:
- Gentlemen's clubs in London
- 1886 establishments in the United Kingdom
- Organizations established in 1886
- History of the Conservative Party (UK)