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- Constitutional_Club abstract "The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1883 and was disbanded in 1979. Between 1886 and 1959 it had a distinctive red and yellow Victorian Neo-Gothic terracotta building at 28 Northumberland Avenue, off Trafalgar Square.The Club was closely aligned to the Conservative party, with members having to pledge support. The club was founded in anticipation of imminent franchise reform then being debated in parliament, which was eventually realised as the Representation of the People Act 1884. It was anticipated that as many more Conservative supporters would be given the vote, many would want to belong to a Conservative club. Existing Conservative clubs like the Carlton and the Junior Carlton feared that they would become inundated with membership applications from the new voters, so the Constitutional Club was founded with these new electors in mind. (The National Liberal Club, just around the corner from the Constitutional Club, was founded in 1882 with the same purpose in mind for the Liberal party, as the existing Liberal clubs, the Reform and the Devonshire, had been similarly oversubscribed.) The Constitutional Club's membership was originally limited to 6,500.Despite being avowedly non-political, P.G. Wodehouse was a member of the Constitutional Club, and was reputed to have considered it his favourite London club. Seven of his stories describe a fictitious Senior Conservative Club in Northumberland Avenue, with a similar décor to the Constitutional, and which also features a Turkish bath, just like the Turkish bath found next door to the Constitutional. These books are Psmith in the City, Something Fresh, Leave it to Psmith (where the club is said to have 6,111 members), Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey, Full Moon, A Tithe for Charity, and Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (which establishes its Northumberland Avenue address).Like many other London clubs, the Constitutional experienced severe financial difficulties with the passing years. In 1959, they agreed to the demolition of the club's well-known, purpose-built terracotta premises, and its replacement with a new office-style building, which was completed in 1962 - this is the building which still stands on that site today, on the corner of Northumberland Avenue and Northumberland Street, opposite the Sherlock Holmes pub.Between 1962 and 1964 the club occupied rooms in first the Junior Carlton Club and then the United Service Club, before acquiring premises of its own on St. James's Street. By the mid-1970s its membership had dwindled to only 1,000, and its financial predicament was serious enough that it had to close in 1979, with its remaining members merging with the St Stephen's Club.".
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- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink 221B_Baker_Street.
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- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Carlton_Club.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Category:1883_establishments_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Category:Gentlemens_clubs_in_London.
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- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Liberal_Party_(UK).
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink List_of_gentlemens_clubs_in_London.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink London.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink National_Liberal_Club.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Northumberland_Avenue.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink P._G._Wodehouse.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Pearls,_Girls_and_Monty_Bodkin.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Psmith_in_the_City.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Reform_Club.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Representation_of_the_People_Act_1884.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Something_Fresh.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink St_Jamess_Street.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink St_Stephens_Club.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Trafalgar_Square.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Turkish_bath.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink United_Service_Club.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLink Victorian_architecture.
- Constitutional_Club wikiPageWikiLinkText "Constitutional Club".
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- Constitutional_Club subject Category:1883_establishments_in_the_United_Kingdom.
- Constitutional_Club subject Category:Gentlemens_clubs_in_London.
- Constitutional_Club hypernym Club.
- Constitutional_Club type Organisation.
- Constitutional_Club type SoccerClub.
- Constitutional_Club type Establishment.
- Constitutional_Club type Organisation.
- Constitutional_Club comment "The Constitutional Club was a London gentlemen's club, now dissolved, which was established in 1883 and was disbanded in 1979. Between 1886 and 1959 it had a distinctive red and yellow Victorian Neo-Gothic terracotta building at 28 Northumberland Avenue, off Trafalgar Square.The Club was closely aligned to the Conservative party, with members having to pledge support.".
- Constitutional_Club label "Constitutional Club".
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- Constitutional_Club wasDerivedFrom Constitutional_Club?oldid=707498293.
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