List of members' clubs in London

This is an incomplete list of private members' clubs with physical premises in London, United Kingdom, including those that no longer exist or have merged, with an additional section on those that appear in fiction. Historically most of these clubs were gentlemen's clubs with membership restricted to men. More recently,^[when?] a number of women-only clubs have been formed.

• Bagatelle Card Club – One of Colonel Sebastian Moran's clubs in the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Beargarden Club – A St James's club in Trollope's Palliser novels^[17]
• Bellamy's - Guy Crouchback's club in Evelyn Waugh's novel Officers and Gentlemen
• Bellona Club – Lord Peter Wimsey's club and location of a murder in Dorothy L. Sayers novel The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
• Billiards Club – Setting for the improbably tall tales of Jorkens, by Lord Dunsany
• Black's Club – Jack Aubrey's, Stephen Maturin's, and Sir Joseph Blaine's club in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series of Napoleonic Wars series of seafaring novels. O'Brian also makes future monarch Prince William, Duke of Clarence a member.
• Blades Club – MI6 intelligence agency director M's club in the James Bond series of espionage novels by Ian Fleming.
• Bratt's Club – John Beaver's club in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh; Charles Ryder’s club in “ Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh; Colonel Charles Russell's club in two of the first three novels by William Haggard.
• Centaur Club – Francis Blake's club in Blake and Mortimer (comics) by Edgar P. Jacobs
• Craven’s – A gaming club founded by the enigmatic Derek Craven, brought to life by author Lisa Kleypas, destroyed by fire in its prime.
• Diogenes Club – Mycroft Holmes's club in the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle..
• Drones Club – Bertie Wooster's club in P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves stories; and is also the club of several other Wodehouse characters, including Bingo Little, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Psmith, and Freddie Threepwood.
• Etheric Explorers Club – a society featured in a series of short stories and novels by Paul Marlowe.
• Egotist's Club – Lord Peter Wimsey's club in the Dorothy L. Sayers novels and short stories.
• Ffeatherstonehaugh's Club – a corrupt and hedonistic establishment commemorating the libertine values of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, featured in the crime novel Clubbed to Death by Ruth Dudley Edwards.
• Hotch Potch Club – featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga.
• Imperial Club – from the 1960s British television comedy series Bootsie and Snudge, starring Alfie Bass and Bill Fraser.
• Iseeum Club – another featured in John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga series of novels.
• Jenner’s – a gaming club founded by the rough boxer Ivo Jenner, mentioned in the works of author Lisa Kleypas, later managed by the devilish Lord St. Vincent.
• Junior Ganymede Club – Jeeves's club (for gentlemen's gentlemen) in P G Wodehouse's Jeeves stories.
• Junior Greys, Pall Mall – one of Albert Campion's clubs in Margery Allingham's detective stories.
• Marine Commando Club, Paddington – frequented by Julian and Sandy from the BBC radio comedy Round the Horne. Note that Kenneth Horne's radio alter ego, a member of the Athenaeum, described it as "not my sort of club".
• Old Bohemian Club – "Bunny" and Raffles' club in E. W. Hornung's Raffles stories.
• Pickwick Club – A club founded by Mr. Samuel Pickwick to study human nature in Charles Dickens's first novel.
• Pelican Club – Sir Galahad's (Gally's) club in P.G. Wodehouse's A Pelican at Blandings
• Progress Club – a club that "...intended to do great things for Liberal Party . . . and had in truth done little or nothing." mentioned in the novel The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.
• Puffin's – one of Albert Campion's clubs in Margery Allingham's detective stories.
• Royal Bathers Club – club with Victorian Turkish baths of which Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy is a member in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" (1943) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
• Senior Conservative Club – features in P.G. Wodehouse's novel Psmith in the City. Although fictional, the description of a large, Conservative-aligned club in Northumberland Avenue tallies perfectly with the real-life Constitutional Club at No.28 and Nevill's Victorian Turkish Baths at No.25 Northumberland Avenue, "twenty yards from the club's front door" (which baths were also used by Sherlock Holmes and Raffles).
• The Seraphim Club – A private club featured in Gallows Thief by Bernard Cornwell.
• Stoics' Club – George Pendyce's club in The Country House by John Galsworthy.
• The Survivor's Club – featured in the novel The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.
• The Tankerville Club – Featured in two Sherlock Holmes mystery detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
• Thackeray Club – club supposedly founded 1864 according to a bronze plaque by entrance door pictured in the musical comedy. dance movie Top Hat from 1935 starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers along with Edward Everett Horton.
• Tweedles Club – club in the movie You Must be Joking 1965, American Films Limited, starring Terry Thomas, Michael Callan, Lionel Jefferies, Denholm Elliott, Wilfrid Hyde White and Bernard Cribbins.
• Whitehall Club – the setting of the murder mystery in the novel Keep It Quiet (1935) by Richard Hull.

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  The Athenæum Club
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  The Garrick Club
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  The Reform Club and the Travellers Club (Left)

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• List of American gentlemen's clubs
• List of India's gentlemen's clubs

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• The Gentlemen's Clubs of London by Anthony Lejeune, first published 1979, most recently in 2012 by Stacey International.

• Anonymous (1950). Your Club. London: Whitbread.
• Anonymous (Marsh, Charles & Mackenzie, Colin) (1828). The Clubs of London. London: H. Colburn, 2 vols.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Black, Barbara (2012). A Room of His Own: A Literary-Cultural Study of Victorian Clubland. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 978-0-8214-2016-4.
• Clark, Peter (2000). British Clubs and Societies, 1580–1800: The Origins of an Associational World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-924843-5.
• Darwin, Bernard (1943). British Clubs. London: Collins.
• Escott, T.H.S. (1914). Club Makers and Club Members. London: T. Fisher Unwin.
• Girtin, Tom (1964). The Abominable Clubman. London: Hutchinson.
• Graves, Charles (1963). Leather Armchairs: The Chivas Regal Book of London Clubs. London: Cassell.
• Lejeune, Anthony; Lewis, Malcolm (1979). The Gentlemen's Clubs of London. London: Wh Smith Pub. ISBN 0-8317-3800-6.
• Lejeune, Anthony (2012). The Gentlemen's Clubs of London. London: Stacey International. ISBN 978-1-906768-20-1.
• Milne-Smith, Amy (2011). London Clubland: A Cultural History of Gender and Class in Late-Victorian Britain. London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-12076-1.
• Nevill, Ralph (1911). London Clubs: Their History & Treasures. London: Chatto & Windus.
• Thévoz, Seth Alexander (2018). Club Government: How the Early Victorian World was Ruled from London Clubs. London: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-78453-818-7.
• Thévoz, Seth Alexander (2022). Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs. London: Robinson/Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1-47214-646-5.
• Timbs, John (1866). Clubs and Club Life in London. London: J. Bentley. Link

• Association of London Clubs
• Seth Alexander Thévoz, Global Clubs Directory