Reform Club

Reform Club
The Reform Club viewed from Pall Mall,
adjacent to the Travellers Club
Map
General information
Architectural styleItalian Renaissance
Address104 Pall Mall
London, SW1
Coordinates51°30′24″N 0°08′00″W / 51.50667°N 0.13333°W / 51.50667; -0.13333
Groundbreaking1837
Completed1841; 183 years ago (1841)
LandlordCrown Estate Commissioners
Design and construction
Architect(s)Sir Charles Barry
Civil engineer
Main contractorGrissell & Peto
Website
www.reformclub.com

The Reform Club is a private members' club, owned and controlled by its members, on the south side of Pall Mall in central London, England. As with all of London's original gentlemen's clubs, it had an all-male membership for decades, but it was one of the first all-male clubs to change its rules to include the admission of women on equal terms in 1981. Since its foundation in 1836, the Reform Club has been the traditional home for those committed to progressive political ideas, with its membership initially consisting of Radicals and Whigs. However, it is no longer associated with any particular political party, and it now serves a purely social function.

The Reform Club currently enjoys extensive reciprocity with similar clubs around the world. It attracts a significant number of foreign members, such as diplomats accredited to the Court of St James's. Of the current membership of around 2,700, some 500 are "overseas members", and over 400 are women.[1]

  1. ^ Twells, Bob. "Reform Club". www.reformclub.com. Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.