The Canning Club is a gentlemen's club

Gentlemen's club

A gentlemen's club is a members-only private club of a type originally set up by and for British upper class men in the eighteenth century, and popularised by English upper-middle class men and women in the late nineteenth century. Today, some are more open about the gender and social status of...

 based in London

London

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, formerly named the Argentine Club, founded in 1911, and is for those with a particular link to, or special interest in, Latin American countries.

As the previous name suggested, it was originally established as a club for nationals of Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

, and much of its income was derived from Argentine-based British businesses. When these businesses were nationalised by Juan Perón

Juan Perón

Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer, and politician. Perón was three times elected as President of Argentina though he only managed to serve one full term, after serving in several government positions, including the Secretary of Labor and the Vice Presidency...

 , the club was deprived of its main source of revenue. Adapting to the situation, it redefined its remit more broadly to Latin America in general, and in 1948 was renamed as the Canning Club, in honour of George Canning

George Canning

George Canning PC, FRS was a British statesman and politician who served as Foreign Secretary and briefly Prime Minister.-Early life: 1770–1793:...

, who had strong links to Latin America.

The club was based in Hamilton Place, Mayfair

Mayfair

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, up until 1970, when it began sharing the premises of the Naval & Military Club

Naval & Military Club

The Naval and Military Club is a gentlemen's club in London, England. It was founded in 1862 because the three then existing military clubs in London - the United Service, the Junior United Service and the Army and Navy - were all full. The membership was long restricted to military officers...

 at Cambridge House

Cambridge House

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, 94 Piccadilly

Piccadilly

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. In 1999 the Naval & Military moved to 4 St James's Square, taking the Canning Club with it.