page_title: Hot and Hot Fish Club
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hot and Hot Fish Club / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Depiction of Robert Francis Withers Allston fishing with John H. Tucker at Murell's inlet in 1816. Artwork done in 1860
context_page_description: The Hot and Hot Fish Club, also known as Hot and Hot Fish Club of All Saints Parish, was a gentlemen's club in the 19th century in South Carolina dedicated to epicurean pursuits: gourmet foods, strong drinks and festive times. It started after the American Revolutionary War and ended during the American Civil War.
context_section_description: Robert Francis Withers Allston, ex-governor of South Carolina in the 19th century, writes at the beginning of the Rules and History of the Hot and Hot Fish Club booklet that he recalls as a boy of fifteen in 1816 that he would visit his older married sister (Elizabeth) in Murrells Inlet near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Her husband (John H. Tucker) was a sportsman that would hunt deer and fish in the nearby Waccamaw River. When Allston visited he always enjoyed "club day", which was Friday during the summer months. On that day he would fish with Mr. Tucker.
  The members of the Fish Club then, as Allston remembers, were
  
  
   
  Major Ward
  F. M. Weston
   
  Ben Allston
  Robert Withers
   
  Major W. A. Bull
  John H. Tucker and brother William
   
  J. Barrington Thomas
  John Green
   
  
  All these above were Allston's close friends. It was rumored that John Green could eat a peck of fish during this meal. He would put the fish into one side of his mouth and at the same time spit out the bones of the previous fish from the other side. The exaggerated rumor went on that all the while he would drink a quart of brandy!
  He was known to say with a southern accent:
caption: Depiction of Robert Francis Withers Allston fishing with John H. Tucker
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