# List of Athenaeum Club members

The following are known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London.

## Founders

* John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder)
* James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder)
* Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse)
* Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman)
* Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary)
* Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal)
* Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)
* Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)

## Members

* Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)
* Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)
* Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896)
* Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
* Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)
* Alexander Bain (1818–1903)
* Roger Bannister (1929–2018)
* Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860)
* Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953)
* Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933)
* Jocelyn Bell Burnell
* Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857)
* Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912)
* Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890)
* Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891)
* Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
* John Brett (1831–1902)
* John Bright (1811–1889)
* Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922)
* Robert Browning (1812–1889)
* William Buckland (1784–1856)
* Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
* John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925)
* William Burges (1827–1881)
* Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896)
* Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926)
* Frederick Burton (1816–1900)
* Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
* George Busk (1807–1886)
* William Butterfield (1814–1900)
* Arthur Buxton (1882–1958)
* George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)
* George Canning (1770–1827)
* Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
* Robert Chambers (1802–1871)
* Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841)
* Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
* Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)
* Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939)
* John Collier (1850–1934)
* Charles Darwin (1809–1892)
* William Reid Dick (1879–1961)
* Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
* Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
* Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
* Charles Dodgson (1800–1868)
* Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
* Richard Doyle (1824–1883)
* George du Maurier (1834–1896)
* Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911)
* Sir Alfred East (1849–1913)
* Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)
* Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)
* Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
* Thomas Faed (1826–1900)
* Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927)
* John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874)
* Robert James Forbes (1900–1973)
* John Forster (1812–1876)
* Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928)
* Edward Frankland (1825–1899)
* William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
* Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934)
* Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878)
* Alec Guinness (1914–2000)
* H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
* George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)
* James Duffield Harding (1797–1863)
* Philip Hardwick (1792–1870)
* Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892)
* Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
* Augustus Hare (1834–1903)
* Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892)
* Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)
* Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)
* William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
* Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
* Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
* John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890)
* Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)
* Washington Irving (1783–1859)
* Julian Jack (b. 1936)
* Henry James (1843–1916)
* PD James, author (1920-2014)
* Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828)
* William Goscombe John (1860–1952)
* Owen Jones (1809–1874)
* Thomas Jones (1870–1955)
* John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
* Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
* William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)
* Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
* Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
* Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)
* Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896)
* John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)
* John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
* Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)
* Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
* Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)
* Frederic Madden (1801-1873)
* Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892)
* Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
* Frederick Maurice (1805–1872)
* James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
* Theresa May (b. 1956)
* Henry Melvill (1798–1871)
* Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)
* Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)
* John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
* Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
* Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)
* Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)
* Patrick Moore (1923–2012)
* William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863)
* John Nash (1752–1835)
* Richard Owen (1804–1892)
* Robert Peel (1788–1850)
* Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937)
* John Percy FRS (1817–1889)
* Cooper Perry (1856–1938)
* St John Philby (1885–1960)
* Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897)
* Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
* Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902)
* Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)
* Richard Redgrave (1804–1888)
* Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)
* George Richmond (1809–1896)
* Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)
* David Roberts (1796–1864)
* Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)
* John Ruskin (1819–1900)
* Lord John Russell (1792–1878)
* Owen Rutter (1889–1944)
* John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)
* Archibald Sayce (1845-1933)
* Jimmy Savile (1926–2011)
* John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)
* Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912)
* Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850)
* John H. Smythe (1844–1908)
* Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby (1775–1851)
* Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927)
* William Somerville (1771–1860)
* Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
* Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
* Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867)
* Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)
* Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
* George Edmund Street (1824–1881)
* Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
* John Addington Symonds (1807–1871)
* Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882)
* Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903)
* Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)
* Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson (1809–1892)
* William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
* William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
* Simon Thompson (b. 1959)
* William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925)
* Rick Trainor (b. 1948)
* Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
* Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851)
* John Tyndall (1820–1893)
* Henry Vaughan (1809-1899)
* Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
* William Walton (1902–1983)
* John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
* George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
* Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856)
* William Whewell (1794–1866)
* Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873)
* William Wilberforce (1759–1833)
* Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892)