Travellers Club

The Travellers Club is a renowned London club, which was founded in 1819, inter alia, by Lord Castlereagh. The Los Angeles Times described him once as "The quintessential English gentleman's club".

Purpose

The club combines with a pronounced British holidaying abroad and vice versa receives distinguished foreign visitors to the exchange of ideas. Originally recording condition that the person was at least once traveled abroad and had thereby found 500 miles in a straight line from London - a criterion whose fulfillment at the time of the founding of the club in the top layer itself was by no means self-evident. Usually enough so far but the completion of the so-called Grand Tour. Today, however, expected at least informally, that the candidate can call at least four traveled by him states.

Sometimes the Travellers Club was also the scene of an informal international negotiations, such as in 2003 between Britain and Libya.

Members

As a full member shall not be included in the Travellers Club, who suggested two members and is then supported by five other. For the - now also open to women - Associate Membership, however, is sufficient to support the club by a member already listening. The upper limit is currently 1,200 members.

Strongly represented are particularly famous traveler, outstanding researchers, explorers and travel writer, as well as diplomats at the Travellers Club. As honorary members it includes representatives of the British as well as foreign royal families, on the incumbent Minister for Foreign Affairs and various accredited ambassadors in London. Among the most famous members were the Duke of Wellington, Lord Russell, Arthur Balfour, Stanley Baldwin, Francis Beaufort, Graham Greene, Jules Verne, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edmund Hillary and Douglas Hurd.

Clubhouse

Originally founded in 12 Waterloo Place, pulled the Travellers Club in 1821 after 49 Pall Mall to - in a building that had previously housed the Brooks 's Club. After this had become too small, they're finally commissioned in 1826 to become famous as an architect of the Houses of Parliament Sir Charles Barry with the construction of a new building at 106 Pall Mall, near the Carlton Gardens. He takes up the design language of the Italian Renaissance palace, and was completed in 1832, the tower until 1842. Famous is also the library with an extensive collection of travel literature as well as the cast of a Greek temple frieze.

Weblink

• Official Homepage
• The Travellers Club in the 19th century
• Secret negotiations with Libya at the Travellers Club (English )

• British Club
• Grade I building in Greater London
• Building in the City of Westminster
• Built in the 1830s
• Founded in 1819