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The Hannover Club or Hanover Club was a political society in the
Kingdom of Great Britain The Kingdom of Great Britain (officially Great Britain) was a Sovereign state, sovereign country in Western Europe from 1 May 1707 to the end of 31 December 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and ratified by the Acts of ...
active during the early 18th century. They were committed to the succession of King George of Hanover to the British throne, rather than the rival claimant James III known as the 'Old Pretender'. It was made up of supporters of the Whig faction. Less well known than the more celebrated Kit Kat Club, with whom they shared many beliefs and members, the group was arguably more important and powerful in pushing for the
Hanoverian Succession The Act of Settlement is an Act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns to only Protestants, which passed in 1701. More specifically, anyone who became a Roman Catholic, or who married one, bec ...
and proved invaluable to George following the death of Queen Anne in 1714, and the year of turmoil that followed. Future Whig Prime Minister the
Duke of Newcastle Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne was a title that was created three times, once in the Peerage of England and twice in the Peerage of Great Britain. The first grant of the title was made in 1665 to William Cavendish, 1st Marquess of Newcastle u ...
was a member of the club.Browning p.7


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* Browning, Reed. ''The Duke of Newcastle''. Yale University Press, 1975. * Field, Ophelia. ''The Kit-Cat Club: Friends who Imagined a Nation''. Harper Collins, 2008. Political organisations based in the United Kingdom Politics of the Kingdom of Great Britain