St Stephen's Club was a private member's club in Westminster, London, founded in 1870.[1]
St Stephen's was originally on the corner of Bridge Street and the Embankment, in London SW1, now the location of Portcullis House. From 1962 it occupied a building at 34 Queen Anne's Gate, overlooking Birdcage Walk and St James's Park.
According to Charles Dickens Jr., writing in 1879:[2]
St Stephen’s Club, Victoria Embankment, S. W. — The only persons eligible for membership are those who profess and maintain Constitutional and Conservative principles. The committee have power to select for ballot twenty candidates annually from those duly proposed and seconded, who shall be called selected members. The election of members is by ballot in committee. Entrance fee, £31 10s.; subscription, £10 10s.
- ^ "Steerpike" (24 November 2012). "Leveson's tour of Australia, Lynton Crosby's uneasy return and the anger of Ben Fogle". The Spectator.
- ^ Charles Dickens Jr., Dickens's Dictionary of London (1879)