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- 1 2 Cavalry and Guards Club: A Brief History of the Building and the Club, accessed 9 December 2021
- ↑ 'Pall Mall, South Side, Past Buildings: No 71 Pall Mall, Sir Edward Walpole's House', in Survey of London: Volumes 29 and 30, St James Westminster, Part 1, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1960), pp. 378-379. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols29-30/pt1/pp378-379 [accessed 9 December 2021].
- ↑ Newark, Tim (2015). The In & Out: A History of the Naval and Military Club. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 15.
- ↑ Thevoz, Seth Alexander (2018). Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 28.
- ↑ Hoare, Stephen (2019). Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London's Clubland. History Press.
- ↑ While the foundation date is generally given as 1810, Sheppard (ed 1960) gives a date of 1813 and Thevoz (2018) gives a date 0f 1815.
- ↑ Hoare, Stephen (2019). Palaces of Power: The Birth and Evolution of London’s Clubland. History Press.
