Myrmidon Club

Myrmidon Club

The Myrmidon Club is a dining club elected from the male undergraduate members of Merton College, Oxford. Founded in 1865, it is one of the handful of such clubs with an almost continuous existence from the second half of the 19th century. It is thought to be the model for the Junta, the fictional club in Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, of which the Duke of Dorset was for some time the sole member.

The Myrmidon Club in 2007

For the origin of its name, see Myrmidons.

The Club, which formerly had rooms in the High Street but whose territorial ambitions are now confined to a cupboard in College, is intermittently out of favour with the authorities. Its colours are purple, gold and silver.

Describing Lord Randolph Churchill's membership of the Club towards the end of the 1860s, T.H.S.Escott wrote:

"There is a certain monotony in the chronicle of the doings at these feasts. In all cases there are the same narratives of proctors' invasions, youthful concealments in coal-cellars, varied sometimes by the incarceration of indiscreet waiters in pantries or ice safes ; or encounters with proctors and bull-dogs, tempered by conflicts with the city police."[1]

Notable members include:

References

  1. ^ Thomas Hay Sweet Escott, Randolph Spencer-Churchill, as a product of his age, being a personal and political monograph (Hutchinson, London, 1895)
  2. ^ Lord David Cecil, Max: A Biography of Max Beerbohm (Constable, London, 1964)
  3. ^ Peder Roberts, A Frozen Field of Dreams: Science, Strategy and the Antarctic in Norway, Sweden and the British Empire, 1912-1952 (Stanford University, 2010), at page 226
  4. ^ Julie Summers, Fearless on Everest: the quest for Sandy Irvine (Mountaineers, 2000)
  5. ^ Sir George Mallaby, Each in his office: studies of men in power (Leo Cooper, 1972)
  6. ^ Paul Routledge, Public servant, secret agent: the elusive life and violent death of Airey Neave (Fourth Estate, 2002), at page 31
  7. ^ Angela Lambert, Obituary in the Independent, 8 February 2007
  8. ^ Stanley Weintraub, Reggie: a portrait of Reginald Turner (New York, 1965)
  9. ^ Averil Gardner, The Early Years of Angus Wilson, in Twentieth Century Literature, 1983, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 151-161
  • Merton College Register (1891-1989) (printed for private circulation, 1990)

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