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CHAPTER FOUR

MEETING-PLACES

OR the first forty-four years of its existence the Lodge held faithful to the
Thatched House Tavern, where its first recorded meeting took place on 14
FJanuary 1777, and by an odd coincidence forty-four years was the length
of its next stay, at the Freemasons’ Tavern. Since leaving the Freemasons’ Tavern in
1865 the Lodge has been to some extent nomadic, it longest occupations having
been ten years, 1879-89, at Long’s Hotel, and twenty-six, 1890-1916, at the Grand
Hotel; since 1916 this restless habit has grown, or has been forced, upon it, and in
the twenty years between 1916 and 1936 there were five moves, besides two odd
meetings away from the normal place. The complete list of meeting-places follows:

Table 1 List of meeting places
1777-1821 The Thatched House Tavern, St James’s Street.
1821-1865 The Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street.
1865-1873 The Clarendon Hotel, New Bond Street.
1873 St James’s Hotel, Piccadilly; one meeting only on 11November
1873-1874 Freemasons’ Hall. 1874 Queen’s Hotel, Cork Street; two meetings
only, 10 November 8 December.
1875-1878 Long’s Hotel, New Bond Street.
1879-1889 Willis’s Rooms, King Street.
1890 St James’s. Long’s Hotel; one meeting only, 11 February.
1890-1916 The Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square.
1916-1918 The Grosvenor Hotel; with two odd meetings at 37 Essex Street,
Strand, 13 March 1917, and 12 November 1918.
1918-1924 The Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall.
1925-1927 The Grand Hotel, Trafalgar Square.
1927-1935 The Hotel Metropole, Northumberland Avenue.
1936-1939 The Grosvenor Hotel. 17
1939-1944 Grosvenor House.
1945-1956 Piccadilly Hotel.
1956-1969 4 Whitehall Court.

17 Where the Lodge now meets (that was in 1939 but a footnote intimates a further move).