The National Union was a short-lived political

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gentlemen's club founded in 1887. It was aligned to the recently created

Liberal Unionist The Liberal Unionist Party was a British political party that was formed in 1886 by a faction that broke away from the Liberal Party. Led by Lord Hartington (later the Duke of Devonshire) and Joseph Chamberlain, the party established a political ...

party which had been created by the

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issue. By 1890, it was reported by ''Whittakers Almanack'' to have around 1,200 members, but like the similar

Unionist Club The Unionist Club was a short-lived London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1886, and had wound up by 1892. For the last four years of its existence, it had a clubhouse at 66-68 Pall Mall. The club was formed shortly a ...

, it had difficulties establishing a membership base. Its history proved to be short, and it was disbanded before 1900.Antonia Taddei, ''London clubs in the late nineteenth century'' (Oxford University discussion paper, 1999), p. 20

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