The Carlton Club is a

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. It was the original home of the

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before the creation of

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. Membership of the club is by nomination and election only.

History

The club was founded in 1832, by

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peers, MPs and

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, as a place to coordinate party activity after the party's defeat over the First Reform Act. The

1st Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and Tory statesman who was one of the leading military and political figures of 19th-century Britain, serving twice as prime minister of ...

was a founding member; he opposed the

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and its extension of the right to vote. The club played a major role in the transformation of the Tory party into its modern form as the

. It lost its role as a central party office with the widening of the franchise after the

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, but it remained the principal venue for key political discussions between Conservative ministers, MPs and party managers.

Formation location

The club was formed at the Thatched House Tavern in 1832 and its first premises were in

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(provided by Lord Kensington), from which it drew its name. These premises were quickly found too small. The second clubhouse was situated near the

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at 94

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, and was purpose-built in 1835. It was replaced by a third clubhouse on the same site in 1856. The

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used on the façade of the third building proved unsuitable in the London atmosphere and had to be completely replaced in 1923–24.

1922 Carlton Club meeting

The club is most famous for the Carlton Club meeting of 19 October 1922, in which backbench Conservative MPs decided to withdraw from the

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–led

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. MPs voted in favour of discontinuing the coalition, after speeches from

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and

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, with Baldwin saying that the fact Lloyd George was a 'dynamic force' was a danger to the stability of the Conservative party.

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resigned as leader and Bonar Law formed a purely Conservative government.

Bombing by the Luftwaffe and move to current building

The club suffered a direct hit during

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on 14 October 1940, Observers, including the diarist

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, noted Quintin Hogg (then a young Conservative MP, later the 2nd Viscount Hailsham) carrying his elderly, disabled father

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from the building; they had been dining together prior to the former's departure for active service in North Africa. The

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David Margesson, who was living at the Club since his recent divorce, was left homeless and had to sleep for a time on a makeshift bed in the underground Cabinet Annexe. No one was killed in the explosion, but the building was destroyed. The Carlton immediately moved to its current premises, at 69

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, formerly the premises of

Arthur's Arthur's was a London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1811 and was disbanded in 1940. Between 1827 and 1940 it was based at 69 St James's Street. It is now best remembered for having built the London clubhouse currently ...

Club – one of the premier gentlemen's clubs, which had closed the same year, after 150 years of operations. The current Georgian clubhouse is architecturally important (

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) and includes two elegant dining rooms, together with a collection of political portraits and paintings dating back to the 18th century, imported from ruins of the old clubhouse and the former Junior Carlton Club (see below). The current Carlton has not retained any of the furnishings belonging to the building when it was Arthur's club, apart from the war memorial plaque in the entrance. There is a marble Arthur's Club World War I War Memorial to be found on the wall by the stairs in the main vestibule of St James's Church Piccadilly (designed by Wren). The walls of the Disraeli and Macmillan rooms and their windows at the back of the club were part of the fabric of the original

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building.

Junior Carlton Club

The

Junior Carlton Club The Junior Carlton Club was a London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1864 and was disbanded in 1977. History Anticipating the forthcoming Second Reform Act under Benjamin Disraeli, numerous prospective electors decide ...

, which was entirely separate from the Carlton itself, was established in 1864 and occupied a large purpose-built clubhouse, completed in 1869, at 30 Pall Mall, almost opposite the Carlton. This was sold early in the 1960s and part of the proceeds used to buy the site of the former Carlton Club building at 94 Pall Mall. The erection of the new clubhouse on this site in a modern 1960s prototype 'club of the future' led to mass resignations from that club. In December 1977 it formally merged with the Carlton Club, with negotiations conducted by

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Bombing by IRA

At 8:39 p.m. on 25 June 1990, the Carlton Club was bombed by the

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(IRA), injuring more than 20 people. Lord Kaberry died the following year at age 83 from the injuries he had sustained.

Chris Pincher scandal

The club was the place at which Chris Pincher, the deputy chief whip, was alleged to have committed sexual assault on two men on 29 June 2022. The revelations following this scandal led to the

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and the resignation of the Prime Minister,

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Membership

Historically and by tradition, only males could become full members after being proposed and seconded by two current members who have known the applicant and been members themselves for at least two years. From the 1970s onwards, women were allowed to become associate members, meaning they were unable to vote. On becoming Conservative leader in 1975,

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was made an honorary member of the club and, as such, until 2008 was the only female member entitled to full membership. Thatcher was elected as the club's second president (the first was

) in May 2009. A separate, unrelated Ladies' Carlton Club was established after the First World War as a social and political centre for Conservative women. It closed in 1958.} A full history of the club was published by historian

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to mark its 175th anniversary in 2007. the club had around 1500 members and membership cost upwards of £1700 per year.

Opposition to membership

The Prime Minister

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was a reluctant member, complaining about the club in the early 1900s. Former Conservative Party leader

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refused Carlton Club membership when it was offered to him in 2001 because women, at that time, were unable to become full members.

Notable members

* Leo Amery''Who Was Who, 1897–present'' (OUP, 2007) * Michael Ancram, Baron Kerr of Monteviot *

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* F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead *

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* St John Brodrick *

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* George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave *

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(twice; a member 1900–5, resigned when he defected to the

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, and rejoined from 1926 until his death) * Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun *

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* Sir Anthony Eden * Walter Elliot * Bolton Eyres-Monsell * Christopher Gabbitas * Sir John Gilmour *

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* E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax * Lord Claud Hamilton * Lord George Hamilton * Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood *

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* John Hick *

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* George Kynoch (formerly Deputy Chairman) *

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* Geoffrey William Lloyd *

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* Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden *

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* Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills * William Morrison *

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* Osbert Peake *

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* Robert Sanders *

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* Sir Peter Tapsell *

(honorary member) *

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(former Chairman) *

William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran, (26 February 1849 – 17 May 1925), known as Sir William Walrond, Bt, between 1889 and 1905, of Bradfield House, Uffculme, Devon, was a British Conservative Party politician who sat in the House of Com ...

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(became first full female member in June 2008; no longer a member since standing for the Brexit Party in the 2019 EU election) * Sir Kingsley Wood *

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References

External links

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