3-086-406 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

In Clubland - No. V: the Travellers' Club..., 1898. 'The Secretary's Sanctum. No. 106, Pall Mall, better known as the Travellers' Club, is the home of one of the most popular and distinguished societies of Clubland...The Travellers' Club originated soon after the peace of 1814. To be precise, the year of its birth was 1819...The Travellers' Club has always possessed a very distinguished membership. To-day it includes at least three Cabinet Ministers; but, according to a candid official of the club, within their own temple the democratic Travellers think no more of their celebrated brethren "than of Mr. Smith." This, of course, either betokens a praiseworthy absence of snobbery or implies such general distinction that no distinction is possible. No doubt so equal-minded a body will be pleased to see itself and its abode in those pages, although the secretary displayed a singular lack of courtesy in his reception of our representative - an attitude which would not, we imagine, be endorsed by the members at large.' The Travellers' Club website, March 2026: 'Dress Code and Etiquette - The Travellers is a gentlemen's club. Ladies are welcome as guests.' From "Illustrated London News", 1898.