List of Athenaeum Club members explained

The following are known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London.

Founders

• John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder)
• James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder)^[1]
• Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse)^[2]
• Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary)^[2]
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal)
• Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)^[2]
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)^[2]

Members

• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)^[2]
• Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)^[2]
• Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896)
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)^[2]
• Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)^[2]
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903)^[2]
• Roger Bannister (1929–2018)
• Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860)^[2]
• Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953)^[2]
• Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933)^[2]
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell
• Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857)
• Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912)^[3]
• Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890)^[2]
• Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891)
• Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
• John Brett (1831–1902)^[2]
• John Bright (1811–1889)^[2]
• Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922)^[2]
• Robert Browning (1812–1889)^[2]
• William Buckland (1784–1856)^[2]
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)^[2]
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925)
• William Burges (1827–1881)^[2]
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896)^[2]
• Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926)^[2]

• Frederick Burton (1816–1900)^[2]

• Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
• George Busk (1807–1886)
• William Butterfield (1814–1900)^[2]
• Arthur Buxton (1882–1958)^[4]
• George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)^[2]
• George Canning (1770–1827)^[2]
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)^[2]
• Robert Chambers (1802–1871)^[2]
• Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841)^[2]
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)^[2]
• Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)
• Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939)^[5]
• John Collier (1850–1934)^[2]
• Charles Darwin (1809–1892)^[2]
• William Reid Dick (1879–1961)^[2]
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870)^[2]
• Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)^[6]
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)^[2]
• Charles Dodgson (1800–1868)^[7]
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
• Richard Doyle (1824–1883)^[2]
• George du Maurier (1834–1896)^[2]
• Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911)^[2]
• Sir Alfred East (1849–1913)^[2]
• Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)
• Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)
• Edward Elgar (1857–1934)^[8]
• Thomas Faed (1826–1900)^[2]

• Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927)^[2]
• John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874)^[2]
• Robert James Forbes (1900–1973)^[2]
• John Forster (1812–1876)^[2]
• Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928)^[2]
• Edward Frankland (1825–1899)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909)^[2]
• Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934)^[2]
• Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878)^[2]
• Alec Guinness (1914–2000)
• H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)^[2]
• James Duffield Harding (1797–1863)^[2]
• Philip Hardwick (1792–1870)^[2]
• Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892)^[2]
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)^[2]
• Augustus Hare (1834–1903)
• Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892)
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)
• Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)^[2]
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)^[2]
• Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
• John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890)^[2]
• Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)^[2]
• Washington Irving (1783–1859)^[2]
• Henry James (1843–1916)
• PD James, author (1920-2014)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828)^[2]
• William Goscombe John (1860–1952)^[2]
• Owen Jones (1809–1874)^[2]
• Thomas Jones (1870–1955)^[9]
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)^[10]
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)^[2]
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)^[2]
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)^[2]
• Andrew Lang (1844–1912)^[2]
• Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)^[2]
• Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896)^[2]
• John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)^[2]
• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
• Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)^[2]
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)^[2]
• Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)^[2]
• Frederic Madden (1801-1873)
• Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892)^[2]
• Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
• Frederick Maurice (1805–1872)^[2]
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)^[2]
• Theresa May (b. 1956)^[11]
• Henry Melvill (1798–1871)^[2]
• Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)
• Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)^[2]
• Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896)^[2]
• Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)^[2]
• Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)
• Patrick Moore (1923–2012)
• William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863)^[2]
• John Nash (1752–1835)^[2]
• Richard Owen (1804–1892)^[2]
• Robert Peel (1788–1850)^[2]
• Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937)^[2]
• John Percy FRS (1817–1889)^[12]
• Cooper Perry (1856–1938)
• St John Philby (1885–1960)
• Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897)^[13]
• Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
• Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902)^[2]
• Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)^[2]
• Richard Redgrave (1804–1888)^[2]
• Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)
• George Richmond (1809–1896)^[2]
• Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)^[2]
• David Roberts (1796–1864)^[2]
• Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)^[2]
• John Ruskin (1819–1900)^[2]
• Lord John Russell (1792–1878)^[2]
• Owen Rutter (1889–1944)
• John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)^[2]
• Archibald Sayce (1845-1933)
• Jimmy Savile (1926–2011)^[14]
• John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)^[2]
• Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912)^[2]
• Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850)^[2]
• John H. Smythe (1844–1908)
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775–1851)^[15]
• Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927)^[2]
• William Somerville (1771–1860)
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867)^[2]
• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)^[2]
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)^[2]
• George Edmund Street (1824–1881)^[2]
• Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
• John Addington Symonds (1807–1871)^[2]
• Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882)^[2]
• Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903)^[2]
• Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)^[2]
• Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)^[16]
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)^[2]
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
• Simon Thompson (b. 1959)^[17]
• William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925)^[2]
• Rick Trainor (b. 1948)
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)^[2]
• Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851)^[2]
• John Tyndall (1820–1893)^[2]
• Henry Vaughan (1809-1899)^[18]
• Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
• William Walton (1902–1983)
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)^[2]
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)^[2]
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)^[2]
• Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856)^[2]
• William Whewell (1794–1866)^[2]
• Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873)^[2]
• William Wilberforce (1759–1833)^[2]
• Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892)^[2]

Sources

• Book: Ward, Humphry . Thomas Humphry Ward

. Thomas Humphry Ward . History of the Athenaeum 1824–1925 . London . 1926.

• Book: Cowell, Frank Richard . [{{Google books|cPW3AAAAIAAJ|plainurl=true}} The Athenaeum: Club and Social Life in London, 1824–1974 ]. London . Heinemann . 1975 . 0-435-32010-6 .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Athenaeum Club, London. Homepage.. https://web.archive.org/web/20160725032931/https://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/. 25 July 2016.
2. Web site: Prominent Victorian Members of The Athenæum Club . February 11, 2013 . July 24, 2024 . victorianweb.org.
3. Book: Lynch, Hollis R. . [{{Google books|8KjnCwAAQBAJ|text=Athenaeum|plainurl=true}} Edward Wilmot Blyden: Pan-Negro Patriot, 1832-1912 ]. 326 of Galaxy Books, West African History Series. illustrated, reprint, revised . . 1970 . 9780195012682 . 81,182,185.
4. Encyclopedia: Buxton, Arthur. Crockford's Clerical Directory. 1930. 190.
5. Book: Adams, Henry . [{{google books|AecNAAAAQAAJ|page=228|plainurl=true}} The Handbook of the Court, the Peerage, the House of Commons ]. 1862 . 228.
6. Book: Wheeler, Michael . [{{google books|Ka_5DwAAQBAJ|page=47|plainurl=true}} The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club ]. unabridged . Yale University Press . 2020 . 9780300256338 . 47.
7. "Book: Waugh, Francis Gledstanes . Members of the Athenaeum from its Foundation. Privately printed limited run of 50 copies . 1900. "
8. Caroline Alice . Elgar . Diary . https://calmview.bham.ac.uk/GetDocument.ashx?db=Catalog&fname=EE.pdf.
9. Web site: JONES, Thomas. Who Was Who, online edn. Oxford University Press. 12 August 2017.
10. Book: Wheeler, Michael . The Athenaeum: More Than Just Another London Club . Yale University Press . 2020 . 369.
11. Web site: Modernisation creeps on as London gentlemen’s clubs open to women . Amelia Gentleman. 11 June 2023. The Guardian . 5 March 2023 .
12. Percy, John . 44 . Hartog . Philip . Philip Hartog . 425-427 . 1.
13. Book: The great landowners of Great Britain and Ireland... . John . Bateman . John Bateman (editor) . London . Harrison . 1883 . 243.
14. News: Sir Jimmy Savile: Obituary. https://web.archive.org/web/20111030112314/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/8857428/Sir-Jimmy-Savile.html. dead. 30 October 2011. 29 October 2011. The Daily Telegraph. London. 2016-07-19.
15. "Book: Waugh, Francis Gledstanes . Members of the Athenaeum from its Foundation. Privately printed limited run of 50 copies . 1900. "
16. "Book: Waugh, Francis Gledstanes . Members of the Athenaeum from its Foundation. Privately printed limited run of 50 copies . 1900. "
17. Web site: THOMPSON, Simon Robert. Who's Who 2017. Oxford University Press. July 19, 2017.
18. 10.1093/ref:odnb/28131 . Vaughan, Henry (1809–1899). Herrmann. L..