Carlton club pall mall london 1874 gentlemen's club Tory Peers
The Carlton Club is a gentlemen's club in London. The club was founded in 1832, by Tory Peers, MPs and gentlemen, as a place to coordinate party activity after the party's defeat over the First Reform Act. It later played a role in the transformation of the Tory party into its modern form as the Conservative Party. The Club lost its role as a central party office with the widening of the franchise in the late 1860s. The club was formed at the Thatched House Tavern in 1832 and its first premises were in Carlton Terrace (provided by Lord Kensington), from which it drew its name. These premises quickly became too small. The second club house, where it existed for most of its history, was situated next to the Reform Club in Pall Mall, London, and was purpose-built in 1835. However it was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, and so the Club moved to its current premises in 1943, buying up 69 St James's Street, London SW1, formerly the premises of Arthur's Club, which had closed in 1940. The current clubhouse is architecturally important and includes two elegant dining rooms, together with a collection of political portraits and paintings dating back to the 18th century, imported from ruins of the old club house.
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