BROOKS'S FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE THE NINETEENTH CENTURY BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED TAVISTOCK STREET, LONDON, W.C. BROOKS'S FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE CLUB 1764 TO THE CLOSE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY COMPILED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE CLUB BALLANTYNE & CO. LIMITED TAVISTOCK STREET, LONDON, W.C. We beg to impress upon members that the Lists now printed do not profess to be biographies of the many distinguished persons who have belonged and do belong to Brooks's. To have given these, at all fully, would have increased the bulk of the volume and the expenses of production to an inconvenient degree. For further details we must refer readers to the "Dictionary of National Biography" and the other works of reference above mentioned. We beg to offer our most sincere thanks to Sir Geo. O. Trevelyan for his kind permission to make quotations from his "Early History of Charles James Fox" and "American Revolution," of which we very freely availed ourselves, as his pages on the condition of London. Society in the first years of King George III. generally, and of Brooks's in particular, exhaust the subject; to Lord Fitzmaurice for allowing us to reprint in extenso his graphic account of Lord Granville's speech in Brooks's in 1887, and also to the Rev. S. Baring-Gould for his sanction to reprint an abridged account of the disappearance of Mr. Bathurst, taken from his volumes "Historic Oddities and Strange Events." Lastly, we must place on record our warmest thanks to Major J. F. Wegg-Prosser, our Secretary, and his Assistant, Mr. W. Lovelace, without whose zealous and unwearying assistance-at all times cheerfully rendered-in searching into the records of the Club we should have found our labours most seriously increased. BROOKS'S, 1906 VICTOR A. WILLIAMSON Chairman of the Managers SPENCER LYTTELTON |