List of Athenaeum Club members

The following are known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London.

Founders

• John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder) ^[1]
• James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder) ^[2]
• Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse) ^{[3] [4]}
• Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman) ^[1]
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary) ^{[4] [5]}
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal) ^[6]
• Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841) ^[4]
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) ^[4]

Members

• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) ^[4]
• Richard Ansdell (1815–1885) ^[4]
• Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896) ^[7]
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) ^[4]
• Thomas Arnold (1795–1842) ^[4]
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903) ^[4]
• Roger Bannister (1929–2018)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860) ^[4]
• Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953) ^[4]
• Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933) ^[4]
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell
• Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857) ^[8]
• Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) ^[9]
• Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890) ^[4]
• Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891) ^[10]
• Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)^{[ citation needed ]}
• John Brett (1831–1902) ^[4]
• John Bright (1811–1889) ^[4]
• Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922) ^[4]
• Robert Browning (1812–1889) ^[4]
• William Buckland (1784–1856) ^[4]
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) ^[4]
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925) ^[11]
• William Burges (1827–1881) ^[4]
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896) ^[4]
• Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926) ^[4]
• Frederick Burton (1816–1900) ^[4]
• Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890) ^[12]
• George Busk (1807–1886) ^[13]
• William Butterfield (1814–1900) ^[4]
• Arthur Buxton (1882–1958) ^[14]
• George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900) ^[4]
• George Canning (1770–1827) ^[4]
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) ^[4]
• Robert Chambers (1802–1871) ^[4]
• Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841) ^[4]
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) ^[4]
• Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939) ^[15]
• John Collier (1850–1934) ^[4]
• Charles Darwin (1809–1892) ^[4]
• William Reid Dick (1879–1961) ^[4]
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870) ^[4]
• Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847) ^[16]
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) ^[4]
• Charles Dodgson (1800–1868) ^[17]
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) ^[18]
• Richard Doyle (1824–1883) ^[4]
• George du Maurier (1834–1896) ^[4]
• Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911) ^[4]
• Sir Alfred East (1849–1913) ^[4]
• Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Edward Elgar (1857–1934) ^[19]
• Thomas Faed (1826–1900) ^[4]
• Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927) ^[4]
• John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874) ^[4]
• Robert James Forbes (1900–1973) ^[4]
• John Forster (1812–1876) ^[4]
• Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928) ^[4]
• Edward Frankland (1825–1899) ^[20]
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909) ^[4]
• Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934) ^[4]
• Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878) ^[4]
• Alec Guinness (1914–2000)^{[ citation needed ]}
• H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925) ^[21]
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860) ^[4]
• James Duffield Harding (1797–1863) ^[4]
• Philip Hardwick (1792–1870) ^[4]
• Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892) ^[4]
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) ^[4]
• Augustus Hare (1834–1903)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892) ^[22]
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911) ^[23]
• Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896) ^[4]
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) ^[4]
• Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) ^[24]
• John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890) ^[4]
• Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914) ^[4]
• Washington Irving (1783–1859) ^[4]
• Julian Jack (b. 1936)
• Henry James (1843–1916) ^[25]
• PD James, author (1920-2014)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828) ^[4]
• William Goscombe John (1860–1952) ^[4]
• Owen Jones (1809–1874) ^[4]
• Thomas Jones (1870–1955) ^[26]
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) ^[27]
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) ^[4]
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848) ^[4]
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873) ^[4]
• Andrew Lang (1844–1912) ^[4]
• Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923) ^[4]
• Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896) ^[4]
• John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876) ^[4]
• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913) ^[28]
• Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875) ^[4]
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) ^[4]
• Daniel Maclise (1806–1870) ^[4]
• Frederic Madden (1801-1873)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892) ^[4]
• Gideon Mantell (1790–1852) ^[29]
• Frederick Maurice (1805–1872) ^[4]
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) ^[4]
• Theresa May (b. 1956) ^[30]
• Henry Melvill (1798–1871) ^[4]
• Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)^{[ citation needed ]}
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) ^[4]
• Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) ^[4]
• Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868) ^[4]
• Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Patrick Moore (1923–2012)^{[ citation needed ]}
• William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863) ^[4]
• John Nash (1752–1835) ^[4]
• Richard Owen (1804–1892) ^[4]
• Robert Peel (1788–1850) ^[4]
• Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937) ^[4]
• John Percy FRS (1817–1889) ^[31]
• Cooper Perry (1856–1938)^{[ citation needed ]}
• St John Philby (1885–1960)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897) ^[32]
• Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902) ^[4]
• Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904) ^[4]
• Richard Redgrave (1804–1888) ^[4]
• Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)^{[ citation needed ]}
• George Richmond (1809–1896) ^[4]
• Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921) ^[4]
• David Roberts (1796–1864) ^[4]
• Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) ^[4]
• John Ruskin (1819–1900) ^[4]
• Lord John Russell (1792–1878) ^[4]
• Owen Rutter (1889–1944)^{[ citation needed ]}
• John Charles Ryle (1816–1900) ^[4]
• Archibald Sayce (1845-1933) ^[33]
• Jimmy Savile (1926–2011) ^[34]
• John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919) ^[4]
• Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912) ^[4]
• Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850) ^[4]
• John H. Smythe (1844–1908)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775–1851) ^[35]
• Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927) ^[4]
• William Somerville (1771–1860)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) ^[36]
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924) ^[37]
• Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867) ^[4]
• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) ^[4]
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) ^[4]
• George Edmund Street (1824–1881) ^[4]
• Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)^{[ citation needed ]}
• John Addington Symonds (1807–1871) ^[4]
• Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882) ^[4]
• Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903) ^[4]
• Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) ^[4]
• Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1809–1892) ^[38]
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) ^[4]
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer ^[39]
• Simon Thompson (b. 1959) ^[40]
• William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925) ^[4]
• Rick Trainor (b. 1948)^{[ citation needed ]}
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) ^[4]
• Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851) ^[4]
• John Tyndall (1820–1893) ^[4]
• Henry Vaughan (1809-1899) ^[41]
• Gore Vidal (1925–2012)^{[ citation needed ]}
• William Walton (1902–1983)^{[ citation needed ]}
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) ^[4]
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) ^[4]
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) ^[4]
• Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856) ^[4]
• William Whewell (1794–1866) ^[4]
• Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873) ^[4]
• William Wilberforce (1759–1833) ^[4]
• Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892) ^[4]

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