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BEEFSTEAK CLUB

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 641 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BEEFSTEAK

CLUB  , the name of several clubs formed in
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London during the 18th and 19th centuries . The first seems to have been that founded in 1709 with Richard Estcourt, the actor, as steward . Of this the chief wits and
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great men of the nation were members and its badge was a gridiron . Its fame was, however, entirely eclipsed in 1735 when " The Sublime Society of Steaks" was established by John Rich at Covent Garden theatre, of which he was then manager . It is said that Lord
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Peterborough supping one
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night with Rich in his private
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room, was so delighted with the
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steak the latter grilled him that he suggested a repetition of the
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meal the next week . From this started the Club, the members of which delighted to call themselves "The Steaks." Among them were Hogarth, Garrick, Wilkes, Bubb Doddington and many other celebrities . The
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rendezvous was the theatre till the fire in 18o8, when the club moved first to the
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Bedford Coffee House, and the next
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year to the Old
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Lyceum . In 1785 the prince of Wales joined, and later his brothers the dukes of Clarence and Sussex became members . On the burning of the Lyceum, "The Steaks" met again in the Bedford Coffee House till 1838, when the New Lyceum was opened, and a large room there was allotted the club . These meetings were held till the club ceased to exist in 1867 . Thomas Sheridan founded a Beefsteak Club in
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Dublin at the Theatre Royal in 1749, and of this Peg Woffington was president . The
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modern Beefsteak Club was founded by J .

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Toole, the actor, in 1876 . See J . Timbs Clubs and Club
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Life in London (1873); Walter Arnold, Life and
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Death of the Sublime Society of Steaks (1871) .

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