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)
• James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder)
• Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse)
• Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman)
• Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary)
• Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal)
• Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)
• Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)

Members

• Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)
• Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)
• Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896)
• Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
• Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)
• Alexander Bain (1818–1903)
• Roger Bannister (1929–2018)
• Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860)
• Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953)
• Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933)
• Jocelyn Bell Burnell
• Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857)
• Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912)
• Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890)
• Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891)
• Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
• John Brett (1831–1902)
• John Bright (1811–1889)
• Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922)
• Robert Browning (1812–1889)
• William Buckland (1784–1856)
• Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
• John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925)
• William Burges (1827–1881)
• Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896)
• Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926)

• Frederick Burton (1816–1900)

• Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
• George Busk (1807–1886)
• William Butterfield (1814–1900)
• Arthur Buxton (1882–1958)
• George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)
• George Canning (1770–1827)
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
• Robert Chambers (1802–1871)
• Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841)
• Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
• Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)
• Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939)
• John Collier (1850–1934)
• Charles Darwin (1809–1892)
• William Reid Dick (1879–1961)
• Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
• Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
• Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
• Charles Dodgson (1800–1868)
• Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
• Richard Doyle (1824–1883)
• George du Maurier (1834–1896)
• Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911)
• Sir Alfred East (1849–1913)
• Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)
• Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)
• Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
• Thomas Faed (1826–1900)

• Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927)
• John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874)
• Robert James Forbes (1900–1973)
• John Forster (1812–1876)
• Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928)
• Edward Frankland (1825–1899)
• William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
• Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934)
• Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878)
• Alec Guinness (1914–2000)
• H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
• George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)
• James Duffield Harding (1797–1863)
• Philip Hardwick (1792–1870)
• Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892)
• Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
• Augustus Hare (1834–1903)
• Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892)
• Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)
• Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)
• William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
• Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
• Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
• John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890)
• Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)
• Washington Irving (1783–1859)
• Julian Jack (b. 1936)
• Henry James (1843–1916)
• PD James, author (1920-2014)
• Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828)
• William Goscombe John (1860–1952)
• Owen Jones (1809–1874)
• Thomas Jones (1870–1955)
• John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
• Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
• William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)
• Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
• Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
• Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)
• Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896)
• John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)
• John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
• Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)
• Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
• Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)
• Frederic Madden (1801-1873)
• Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892)
• Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
• Frederick Maurice (1805–1872)
• James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
• Theresa May (b. 1956)
• Philip May (b. 1957)
• Henry Melvill (1798–1871)
• Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)
• Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)
• John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
• Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
• Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)
• Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)
• Patrick Moore (1923–2012)
• William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863)
• John Nash (1752–1835)
• Richard Owen (1804–1892)
• Robert Peel (1788–1850)
• Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937)
• John Percy FRS (1817–1889)
• Cooper Perry (1856–1938)
• St John Philby (1885–1960)
• Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897)
• Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
• Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902)
• Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)
• Richard Redgrave (1804–1888)
• Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)
• George Richmond (1809–1896)
• Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)
• David Roberts (1796–1864)
• Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)
• John Ruskin (1819–1900)
• Lord John Russell (1792–1878)
• Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937)
• Owen Rutter (1889–1944)
• John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)
• Archibald Sayce (1845-1933)
• Jimmy Savile (1926–2011)
• John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)
• Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912)
• Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850)
• John H. Smythe (1844–1908)
• Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775–1851)
• Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927)
• William Somerville (1771–1860)
• Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
• Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
• Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867)
• Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)
• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
• George Edmund Street (1824–1881)
• Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
• John Addington Symonds (1807–1871)
• Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882)
• Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903)
• Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)
• Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)
• William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
• William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
• Joseph John Thomson (1856-1940)
• Simon Thompson (b. 1959)
• William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925)
• Rick Trainor (b. 1948)
• Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
• Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851)
• John Tyndall (1820–1893)
• Henry Vaughan (1809-1899)
• Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
• William Walton (1902–1983)
• John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
• George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
• Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856)
• William Whewell (1794–1866)
• Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873)
• William Wilberforce (1759–1833)
• Harold Wilberforce-Bell (1885 – 1956)
• Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892)

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