style="font-size: larger;" | The Carlton Club

Founded	1832
Home Page	www.carltonclub.co.uk
Address	69 St James's Street
Clubhouse occupied since	1940
Club established for	Conservatives Conservative Party (UK) The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

The Carlton 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...

 in London

London

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 which describes itself as the "oldest, most elite, and most important of all Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

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

History

The club was founded in 1832, by Tory

Tory

Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...

 peers

Peerage

The Peerage is a legal system of largely hereditary titles in the United Kingdom, which constitute the ranks of British nobility and is part of the British honours system...

, MPs and gentlemen

Gentry

Gentry denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past....

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

Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales...

. It later played a major role in the transformation of the Tory party into its modern form as the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...

. The club lost its role as a central party office with the widening of the franchise after the Reform Act 1867

Reform Act 1867

The Representation of the People Act 1867, 30 & 31 Vict. c. 102 was a piece of British legislation that enfranchised the urban male working class in England and Wales....

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

Previous premises

The club was formed at the Thatched House Tavern in 1832 and its first premises were in Carlton Terrace (provided by Lord Kensington), from which it drew its name. These premises quickly became too small. The second club house was situated next to the Reform Club

Reform Club

The Reform Club is a gentlemen's club on the south side of Pall Mall, in central London. Originally for men only, it changed to include the admission of women in 1981. In 2011 the subscription for membership of the Reform Club as a full UK member is £1,344.00, with a one-off entrance fee of £875.00...

 in Pall Mall

Pall Mall, London

Pall Mall is a street in the City of Westminster, London, and parallel to The Mall, from St. James's Street across Waterloo Place to the Haymarket; while Pall Mall East continues into Trafalgar Square. The street is a major thoroughfare in the St James's area of London, and a section of the...

, London, and was purpose-built in 1835. It was replaced by a third club house on the same site in 1856.

The Caen stone

Caen stone

Caen stone or Pierre de Caen, is a light creamy-yellow Jurassic limestone quarried in northwestern France near the city of Caen.The limestone is a fine grained oolitic limestone formed in shallow water lagoons in the Bathonian Age about 167 million years ago...

 used on the façade of the third building proved unsuitable in the London atmosphere and had to be completely replaced in 1923–1924.

Carlton Club meeting

The club is most famous for the Carlton Club meeting of 19 October 1922, in which backbench Conservative MPs decided to overthrow their leader Austen Chamberlain

Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.- Early life and career :...

 and withdraw from the David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman...

–led coalition government. MPs voted 187 to 87 in favour of discontinuing the coalition, after dissenting speeches from Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin

Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...

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

Bombing by the Luftwaffe, and move to current building

The club suffered a direct hit during the Blitz

The Blitz

The Blitz was the sustained strategic bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 7 September 1940 and 10 May 1941, during the Second World War. The city of London was bombed by the Luftwaffe for 76 consecutive nights and many towns and cities across the country followed...

 on 14 October 1940, No-one was killed in the explosion, although the entire building was destroyed. The Carlton at once moved to its current premises, at 69 St James's Street, London

London

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, formerly the premises of Arthur's

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...

 Club, which had closed earlier in 1940. The current Georgian clubhouse is architecturally important(Grade 2* listed)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 club house 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. 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 White's Club building.

Junior Carlton Club

The Junior Carlton Club, which was entirely separate from the Carlton itself, was established in 1864 and occupied a large purpose-built club house, completed in 1869, at 30 Pall Mall, almost opposite the Carlton. Their redevelopment of their premises into a modern 1960s office-style block as a prototype 'club of the future' led to mass resignations from that club, and in December 1977 it formally merged with the Carlton Club, with negotiations conducted by Harold Macmillan

Harold Macmillan

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....

.

Bombing by IRA

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

Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation whose aim was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a socialist republic within a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...

 (IRA), injuring more than 20 people. Lord Kaberry later died of his injuries received in the attack.

Membership

Many Conservative politicians have been members. The leader of the Conservative Party is invited to become an honorary member. Iain Duncan Smith

Iain Duncan Smith

George Iain Duncan Smith is a British Conservative politician. He is currently the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and was previously leader of the Conservative Party from September 2001 to October 2003...

 refused membership when it was offered to him.

Traditionally, only men could become full members after being proposed and seconded by a number of current members. From the 1970s onwards, women were allowed to become associate members, meaning they were unable to vote. The members had voted against women becoming full members a number of times during the club's history but on the 22 May 2008 broke with tradition and agreed to admit women as full voting members. Since becoming Conservative leader in 1975, Lady Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

 has been an honorary member of the club and as such, until 2008 was the only female member entitled to full membership.

David Cameron

David Cameron

David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....

 accepted honorary membership of the club as of 22 May 2008. Lady Thatcher was elected as the club's second president (the first was Harold Macmillan) on May 2009.

An entirely separate, unrelated Ladies' Carlton Club was established after the First World War as a social and political centre for women Conservatives. It closed in 1958.

The current chairman is The Right Honourable Lord Freeman. A full history of the club was published to mark its 175th anniversary in 2007. The Carlton Club 1832-2007 by Sir Charles Petrie and Alistair Cooke OBE (now Lord Lexden) is available from the club and costs £30.

Notable members

• Leo Amery
• Michael Ancram
  Michael Ancram
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• Stanley Baldwin
  Stanley Baldwin
  Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC was a British Conservative politician, who dominated the government in his country between the two world wars...
  
  
• Arthur Balfour
  Arthur Balfour
  Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
  
  
• Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
  Alexander Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
  Alexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh KT GCMG GCVO PC DL JP was a Scottish Unionist politician, banker and statesman, who took a leading part in the affairs of the Church of Scotland...
  
  
• F.E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead
• Andrew Bonar Law
• William Bridgeman, 1st Viscount Bridgeman
• St John Brodrick
  St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton
  William St John Fremantle Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton, KP, PC , known as St John Brodrick until 1907 and as The Viscount Midleton between 1907 and 1920, was a British Conservative Party politician....
  
  
• Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
• Rab Butler
  Rab Butler
  Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG CH DL PC , who invariably signed his name R. A. Butler and was familiarly known as Rab, was a British Conservative politician...
  
  
• David Cameron
  David Cameron
  David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....
  
  
• George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave
  George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave GCMG, KC, PC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1916 to 1919 and served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928.-Background and education:Cave was born in...
  
  
• Austen Chamberlain
  Austen Chamberlain
  Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.- Early life and career :...
  
  
• Neville Chamberlain
  Neville Chamberlain
  Arthur Neville Chamberlain FRS was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940. Chamberlain is best known for his appeasement foreign policy, and in particular for his signing of the Munich Agreement in 1938, conceding the...
  
  
• Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
  Harry Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank
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• Philip Cunliffe-Lister
  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton
  Philip Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Earl of Swinton GBE, CH, MC, PC , known as Philip Lloyd-Greame until 1924 and as The Viscount Swinton from 1935 until 1955, was a prominent British Conservative politician from the 1920s until the 1950s.-Background and early life:Born as Philip Lloyd-Graeme, he was the...
  
  
• Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston
  Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston
  Aretas Akers-Douglas, 1st Viscount Chilston GBE PC , born Aretas Akers and known as Aretas Akers-Douglas between 1875 and 1911, was a British Conservative statesman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until he was raised to the peerage in 1911...
  
  
• Lord Randolph Churchill
  Lord Randolph Churchill
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• Winston Churchill
  Winston Churchill
  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...
  
   (twice; a member 1900-5, resigned when he defected to the Liberal party
  Liberal Party (UK)
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  , and rejoined from 1926 until his death)
• Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun
  Ronald McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun
  Ronald John McNeill, 1st Baron Cushendun PC was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson
  J. C. C. Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson
  John Colin Campbell Davidson, 1st Viscount Davidson GCVO CH, CB, PC , known before his elevation to the peerage as J. C. C. Davidson, was a British civil servant and Conservative Party politician, best known for his close alliance with Stanley Baldwin...
  
  
• Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
  Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby
  Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG, GCB, GCVO, TD, PC, KGStJ, JP , known as Lord Stanley from 1893 to 1908, was a British soldier, Conservative politician, diplomat and racehorse owner. He was twice Secretary of State for War and also served as British Ambassador to...
  
  
• Benjamin Disraeli
• Sir Alec Douglas-Home
• Sir Anthony Eden
• Walter Elliot
• Bolton Eyres-Monsell
  Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell
  Bolton Meredith Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell, GBE, PC was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Chief Whip until 1931 and then as First Lord of the Admiralty.His parents were Lt.Col...
  
  
• Christopher Gabbitas
  Christopher Gabbitas
  Christopher Alan Gabbitas, baritone with the King's Singers was born on 15 May 1979 in Plymouth, the son of Dr. Brian and Mrs Evelyn Gabbitas. The family moved to Kent after his father ended a career as a Royal Naval Officer and switched to the world of academia. He attended The King's School,...
  
  
• Sir John Gilmour
• William Ewart Gladstone
  William Ewart Gladstone
  William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
  
  
• William Hague
  William Hague
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• Michael Heseltine
  Michael Heseltine
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• Douglas Hogg
• Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
  Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham
  Douglas McGarel Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham PC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
  Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone
  For the businessman and philanthropist, see Quintin Hogg Quintin McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone, KG, CH, PC, QC, FRS , formerly 2nd Viscount Hailsham , was a British politician who was known for the longevity of his career, the vigour with which he campaigned for the Conservative...
  
  
• E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, , known as The Lord Irwin from 1925 until 1934 and as The Viscount Halifax from 1934 until 1944, was one of the most senior British Conservative politicians of the 1930s, during which he held several senior ministerial posts, most notably as...
  
  
• Lord Claud Hamilton
• Lord Frederic Hamilton
• Lord George Hamilton
  Lord George Hamilton
  Lord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...
  
  
• Sir Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
• William Joynson-Hicks
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford
  William Joynson-Hicks, 1st Viscount Brentford PC, PC , DL , known as Sir William Joynson-Hicks, Bt, from 1919 to 1929 and popularly known as Jix, was an English solicitor and Conservative Party politician, best known as a long-serving and controversial Home Secretary from 1924 to 1929, during which...
  
  
• David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Heathcoat-Amory
  David Philip Heathcoat-Amory is a British politician, accountant and farmer. He was the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wells from 1983 until he lost his seat in the 2010 general election.-Education and professional life:...
  
  
• Derick Heathcoat-Amory
• Edward Heath
  Edward Heath
  Sir Edward Richard George "Ted" Heath, KG, MBE, PC was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and as Leader of the Conservative Party ....
  
  
• David Maxwell Fyfe
  David Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir
  David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir GCVO, PC, KC, , known as Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from 1942 to 1954 and as The Viscount Kilmuir from 1954 to 1962, was a British Conservative politician, lawyer and judge who combined an industrious and precocious legal career with political ambitions...
  
  
• Rudyard Kipling
  Rudyard Kipling
  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English poet, short-story writer, and novelist chiefly remembered for his celebration of British imperialism, tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kipling received the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature...
  
  
• Alan Lennox-Boyd
• Geoffrey William Lloyd
• Selwyn Lloyd
  Selwyn Lloyd
  John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd CH PC CBE TD , known for most of his career as Selwyn Lloyd, was a British Conservative Party politician who served as Foreign Secretary from 1955 to 1960, then as Chancellor of the Exchequer until 1962...
  
  
• Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
  Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry
  Charles Stewart Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 6th Marquess of Londonderry KG, GCVO, PC, DL, JP , styled Viscount Castlereagh between 1872 and 1884, was an Anglo-Irish Conservative politician, landowner and benefactor, who served in various capacities in the Conservative administrations of the late 19th and...
  
  
• Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
  Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
  Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, KG, MVO, PC, PC , styled Lord Stewart until 1884 and Viscount Castlereagh between 1884 and 1915, was an Anglo-Irish peer and had careers in both Irish and British politics...
  
  
• Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long
• Harold Macmillan
  Harold Macmillan
  Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC was Conservative Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 10 January 1957 to 18 October 1963....
  
  
• Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden
• John Major
  John Major
  Sir John Major, is a British Conservative politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990–1997...
  
  
• Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills
  Percy Mills, 1st Viscount Mills
  Percy Herbert Mills, 1st Viscount Mills KBE , PC was a British politician. He was born at Thornaby on Tees and educated at Barnard Castle School....
  
  
• William Morrison
  William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil
  William Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil, GCMG, MC, KStJ, PC, QC , the 14th Governor-General of Australia, was born in Scotland and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh. He joined the British Army in the First World War and served with an artillery regiment...
  
  
• Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
  Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne
  Walter Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne DSO & Bar PC was a Anglo-Irish politician and businessman. He served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the militant Jewish Zionist group Lehi...
  
  
• Gerald Nabarro
  Gerald Nabarro
  Sir Gerald David Nunes Nabarro was a Conservative Party politician of the 1950s and 1960s. Nabarro had a flamboyant public profile and a reputation for taking maverick political stances.-Early life:...
  
  
• Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar
  Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar
  Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar KT GCMG PC , was a Scottish politician and colonial governor. He served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia , and is considered as probably the most politically influential holder of this post...
  
  
• Osbert Peake
  Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby
  Osbert Peake, 1st Viscount Ingleby PC was a British Conservative Party politician. He served as Minister of National Insurance and then as Minister of Pensions and National Insurance from 1951 to 1955....
  
  
• William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel
  William Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel
  William Robert Wellesley Peel, 1st Earl Peel GCSI, GBE, PC, TD was a British politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Charles Ritchie, 1st Baron Ritchie of Dundee
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, PC , styled Lord Robert Cecil before 1865 and Viscount Cranborne from June 1865 until April 1868, was a British Conservative statesman and thrice Prime Minister, serving for a total of over 13 years...
  
  
• James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
  James Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury
  James Edward Hubert Gascoyne-Cecil, 4th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, GCVO, CB, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1868 to 1903, was a British statesman.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury, KG, PC , known as Viscount Cranborne from 1903 to 1947, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:...
  
  
• Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury
  Robert Michael James Gascoyne-Cecil, 7th Marquess of Salisbury, PC, DL , is a British Conservative politician. During the 1990s, he was Leader of the House of Lords under his courtesy title of Viscount Cranborne...
  
  
• Robert Sanders
  Robert Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford
  Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Arthur Sanders, 1st Baron Bayford PC, JP was an English politician.-Background and education:...
  
  
• James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
  James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope
  James Richard Stanhope, 13th Earl of Chesterfield and 7th Earl Stanhope KG, DSO, MC, PC , styled Viscount Mahon until 1905, and known as The Earl Stanhope from 1905 until 1967, was a British Conservative politician.-Background:Stanhope was the eldest son of Arthur Stanhope, 6th Earl Stanhope, and...
  
  
• Sir Peter Tapsell
• Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Thatcher
  Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...
  
   (honorary member)
• Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester
  Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester
  Peter Edward Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, MBE, PC , was British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, he served in the Cabinet as the Environment Secretary , Trade and Industry Secretary , Agriculture Minister , Energy Secretary and Welsh Secretary...
  
   (former Chairman)
• William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran
  William Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran
  William Hood Walrond, 1st Baron Waleran PC , known as Sir William Walrond, Bt, between 1889 and 1905, was a British Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 until 1906 when he was raised to the peerage...
  
  
• Ann Widdecombe
  Ann Widdecombe
  Ann Noreen Widdecombe is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000. She is a Privy Councillor and was the Member of Parliament for Maidstone from 1987 to 1997 and for Maidstone and The Weald from 1997 to 2010. She was a social conservative and a member of...
  
   (first full female member, June, 2008)
• Sir Kingsley Wood
  Kingsley Wood
  Sir Howard Kingsley Wood was an English Conservative politician. The son of a Wesleyan Methodist minister, he qualified as a solicitor, and successfully specialised in industrial insurance...
  
  
• Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
• George Wyndham
  George Wyndham
  George Wyndham PC was a British Conservative politician, man of letters, noted for his elegance, and one of The Souls.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Boris Johnson
  Boris Johnson
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External links

• Official website
• Architectural description and plans - from the Survey of London
  Survey of London
  The Survey of London is a research project to produce a comprehensive architectural survey of the former County of London. It was founded in 1894 by Charles Robert Ashbee, an Arts-and-Crafts architect and social thinker, and was motivated by a desire to record and preserve London's ancient monuments...
  
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