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☆ London's elite Garrick Club votes to allow women for the first time
  + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Karen Gilchrist | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
LONDON — Members of Britain's exclusive all-male Garrick Club has reportedly voted to permit women to join the institution for the first time in its 193-year history. The historic vote comes after the club has been under immense scrutiny over recent weeks following the publication by the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper of some of the elite club's most influential members. The closely-guarded membership list showed the club to be an emblem of Britain's patriarchal establishment, with the majority of members white and aged over 50. Notable public figures from the arts, including actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Brian Cox, were also named. The Garrick Club, named after the 18th-century actor David Garrick, was founded in 1831 as a place where "actors and men of refinement and education might meet on equal terms," according to a statement on the club's website.
Persons: Garrick, King Charles III, Benedict Cumberbatch, Brian Cox, David Garrick Organizations: U.K, Secret Intelligence Service, Garrick Locations: London
☆ London’s famous Garrick Club votes to allow women, nearly 200 years after it was founded
  + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
London CNN —A London members club formed in 1831 has voted to let women join for the first time, after coming under scrutiny for its exclusionary policy in recent weeks. Members of the Garrick Club, in London’s West End, gathered Tuesday to debate admitting women to the club, the BBC and the Guardian reported. Protesters are pictured outside the Garrick Club on March 28. CNN has contacted the Garrick Club for comment. The club, which has around 1,300 members, boasts a coffee room, morning room, card room, billiards room, reading room, members’ computer room and roof terrace, as well as 17 bedrooms, a members’ lounge and a number of private rooms that can be booked for group events.
Persons: Carl Court, King Charles III, David Garrick, “, Garrick, ’, ” Organizations: London CNN, Garrick Club, BBC, Guardian, CNN, Club Locations: London’s, Covent
☆ Garrick Club of London Votes to Accept Female Members for First Time
  + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
One of London’s oldest, most celebrated men’s clubs, the Garrick, voted on Tuesday to admit women as members, according to two members. The vote ended a decades-long dispute that had divided the club, generated multiple conflicting legal arguments and made life acutely awkward for some of its most prominent members. Some members had said they planned to swiftly nominate a slate of prominent women, including the actress Judi Dench and the classics scholar Mary Beard. The club did not comment on the meeting, which lasted almost two hours, or the results of the vote, and the members asked not to be identified because they had been asked not to discuss it. They said the debate had been civil, and the vote, which was conducted electronically, had been conducted briskly.
Persons: Garrick, —, Judi Dench, Mary Beard
☆ Inside the Garrick, the Elite Men-Only London Club Rocked by Criticism
  + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Mark Landler | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
On a side street in Covent Garden stands an imposing palazzo-style building, strangely out of place amid the burger joints and neon marquees of London’s theater district. It houses the Garrick Club, one of Britain’s oldest men’s clubs, and on any given weekday, a lunch table in its baronial dining room is one of the hottest tickets in town. A visitor lucky enough to cadge an invitation from a member might end up in the company of a Supreme Court justice, the master of an Oxford college or the editor of a London newspaper. Women are excluded from membership in the Garrick and permitted only as guests, a long-simmering source of tension that has recently erupted into a full-blown furor. Mr. Moore’s membership seemed at odds with his efforts to bring more racial and gender diversity to the British spy agency, known as MI6.
Persons: Garrick, Richard Moore, Simon Case, Case, derisory Organizations: Garrick Club, Oxford, Guardian, Secret Intelligence Service Locations: Covent, London, British, ”
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