The Turf Club was founded in 1861 as the Arlington Club, with premises in Bennett Street, Piccadilly.[1] It was while there that a committee of the Arlington, consisting of George Bentinck, Sir Rainald Knightley, Charles C. Greville, H. B. Mayne, John Bushe, G. Payne, and Colonel Pipon, under the chairmanship of John Clay MP, drew up the laws of whist, officially sanctioned by the Portland Club in 1864.[2]
Members had originally wished to call themselves simply The Club until it was discovered that they had been beaten to it: a hundred years or so earlier the name had been claimed by Dr Johnson and Sir Joshua Reynolds for their renowned dining society.
The Turf Club moved in 1875 to the corner of Piccadilly and Clarges Street. The new building at 85 Piccadilly, designed by John Norton,[3] remained the clubhouse for ninety years until the Club decided to sell the extremely valuable freehold.[4]
^Gater, G.H. (1940). "9: Carlton House Terrace and Carlton Gardens". In Hiorns, F.R. (ed.). Survey of London. Vol. 20: St Martin-in-the-Fields, pt III: Trafalgar Square & Neighbourhood. pp. 77–87. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
^"Ward-Jackson, Adrian Alexander, 1950-1991". Online Catalogue for Westminster School's Archive & Collections. Westminster School. Retrieved 14 February 2024.
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