The Reform Club

c. 1890

Dale Street, Liverpool

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Club-Land, 65

"Until 1877 there was no club of any importance in Liverpool. . . . Politics had had no club life up to 1877, when twenty leading Liberals (to-day they are known as Liberal Unionists, for the Reform Club is Hartington to the backbone) subscribed funds for the erection of a club-house to be called The Reform." [Continued below]

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" These twenty generous and practical men said to the party, " We will build you a club, the condition being that you will support it, and the subscription shall be two guineas per annum, out of which we will take whatever return there may bo for our money." The investment has yielded some three or four per cent, The year the club was opened the whole of the municipal elections, having previously been in favour of the Conservatives, "went Liberal," which the founders of the club and the public generally seem to have ascribed to the inspiriting influence of the go-aheadism of the party as demonstrated in their establishment of a new political institution"

Bibliography

Hatton, Joseph. Clubland London and Provincial. London: J. S. Vertie, 1890. Internet Archive version of a copy in the University of Toronto Library. Web. 29 February 2012.

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