Australian Club

"This article is about the gentlemen's club in Sydney. For the gentlemen's club in Melbourne, see Australian Club (Melbourne)."

The Australian Club is a private club founded in 1838 and located in Sydney at 165 Macquarie Street. Its membership is men-only and it's the oldest gentlemen's club in the southern hemisphere. It enjoys reciprocal arrangements with other clubs of its type including; the Melbourne Club, Boodle's and Brooks's in London, the Pacific-Union Club in San Francisco, California Club in Los Angeles, Union Club and Knickerbocker Club of New York City and the Somerset Club in Boston.

Presidents

# Hon Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS 1838 - 1848
# Hon Campbell Drummond Riddell 1848 - 1856
# Hon Sir Edward Deas-Thomson KCMG CB MLC 1857 - 1879
# Hon Sir William Macarthur MLC 1879 - 1882
# Christopher Rolleston CMG 1882 -1888
# Edward Merewether FRGS 1888 - 1893
# Hon Philip Gidley King MLC 1894 - 1900
# Hon Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor MLC 1900 - 1908
# Hon Henry Edward Kater MLC 1909 - 1924
# John Archibald Anderson 1924 - 1933
# Major-General HonJames William Macarthur-Onslow VD MLC 1933 - 1936
# William Deuchar Gordon 1936 - 1939
# Pat Hamilton Osborne 1939 - 1942
# Hon Sir Colin Archibald Sinclair KBE MLC 1942 - 1945
# Hon Sir Norman William Kater MLC 1945 - 1948
# Edmund Irving Body 1948 - 1951
# Hon Sir Colin Archibald Sinclair KBEMLC 1951 - 1954
# John Gordon Crowther 1954 - 1957
# Edmund Irving Body CBE 1957 - 1959
# John Gordon Crowther 1959 - 1960
# Rt Hon Sir Victor Windeyer KBE, CB, DSO, ED, QC 1960 - 1963
# Donald Brian Hardy Arnott 1963 - 1966
# Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE DSO ED 1966 - 1969
# Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper CBE 1969 - 1972
# Sir William Morrow DSO ED 1972 - 1975

Notable members

To view a list of current and past members see, List of Australian Club Members

See also

*White's
*Club-house
*List of London's Gentleman's clubs

External links

* [http://www.garrickclub.co.uk/ The Garrick Club]
* [http://www.somersetclub.org/Default.aspx?bhcp=1/ The Somerset Club]
* [http://www.californiaclub.org/index.asp/ The California Club]
* [http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/tyrrell/show.php?id=147/ The Australian Club Photograph Powerhouse Museum]

http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/tyrrell/show.php?id=147

References

*A History of the Australian Club 1838-1888, DR J R Angel
*Who's Who 1974
*Who's Who 2007
*John's Notable Australians 1900