Military, Naval and County Service Club explained

The Military, Naval and County Service Club was a London gentlemen's club, which was established in November 1848 and dissolved on 15 July 1851.^[1] The club's motto was "Cor Unum Via Una". Its original name was the Military & County Service Club and not long before it closed it was renamed as the Saint James's Club.

The club occupied premises at 50 St James's Street. These premises had previously been used by William Crockford's St James's Club, which had closed on 1 January 1846.^[2] Afterwards they were used by the Wellington Dining Rooms, the St George's Club and between 1874 and 1976 by the Devonshire Club.

See also

• List of London's gentlemen's clubs

References

• Full text out of copyright and available at archive.org
• Full text out of copyright and available at openlibrary.org

Notes

1. http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/21230/pages/1918 London Gazette, 25 July 1851
2. Letter dated 24 December 1845 from R. W. Graham to Thomas Duncombe, in Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Life & Correspondence, 1868, quoted in A. L. Humphreys, Crockford’s, or The Goddess of Chance in St. James’s Street 1828-1844, London: Hutchinson, 1953, pp. 199–200. 'It is all over with Crocky’s, and the place is to be closed on the 1st January; and it appears there is no intention to form another club out of it.

External links

• Crockford's
• London Gazette, 25 July 1851, Winding up St. James's Club