East India Club

The East India, Devonshire, Sports and Public Schools' Club, usually known as the East India Club, is a gentlemen's club founded in 1849 and situated at 16 St. James's Square in London. Membership of the club is strictly by nomination and election only. Founded in the middle of the 19th century, the club's original members, as set out in the Rule Book of 1851, were- But within the first two decades of the club's foundation, the East India Company started to lose its Indian possessions and was wound up entirely in 1874. As a result, the club could no longer look to the East India Company as its main source of members. Since then, the club has amalgamated with the Sports Club (1938), the Public Schools Club (1972) and the Devonshire...