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The Carlton has since then made numerous internal modifications to the building, and none of the original furniture from Arthur's remains. The memorial tablet listing those from Arthur's Club who died in World War I is now in nearby
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The club was first formed at a meeting at a bank at 16 St James's Street on 8 May 1811, with the resolution 'That a New Club be forthwith established, to consist of 300 Members.' The club is notable for being the first to be a
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The building was completed in 1827, and housed the club until financial pressures led to its closure in 1940. In 1941, the Carlton Club's own clubhouse in
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Thomas Harvie Farquhar (a member of the banking firm of Herries and Co., on whose premises in St. James's Street the meeting was held)
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The original club committee consisted of eleven members. Six were Scots:
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Walter Burrell (from the same Sussex landowning family)
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was destroyed after a direct hit from a bomb during
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