New Club
History
According to the Website of the New Club:
- The Club's earliest records date from 1787 when it met in Bayle's Tavern in Shakespeare Square at the east end of Princes Street. The Club then acquired its own premises in St. Andrew Square before moving to its present site in 1837. Today's building dates from 1969.
‘And, if the latest issue of Who's Who is to be believed, no fewer than 16 of our judges are members of that dismal essay in 1960s modernism, the New Club in Princes Street, Edinburgh. Some day, someone will disentangle the strings of power and influence that radiate out from that peculiar establishment (with its own swimming pool) above the Princes Street shops.’[1]
‘[Martin] Frost also rubs shoulders with the establishment figures who dominate the exclusive New Club in Edinburgh's Princes Street. Yet being a fairly gruff Englishman, born in Stafford and raised in Lancashire, he is aware that he is very much the outsider. That seems to suit him, for he is often to be found crossing swords in court with those he sits beside at lunch.’[2]
Notes
^ the New Statesman, Ltd. 2000 ^ Taken from the Sunday Times 22nd April 2003
