Tea Club, Barrovian Society

Tea Club, Barrovian Society, or T.C.B.S. for short, was a club founded in 1913 by J.R.R. Tolkien and his friends at King Edward's School in Birmingham.
They usually met at the Barrow Stores, from which the club's name was derived. The main lasting members of the club were the "big four": J.R.R. Tolkien and his close friends Christopher Wiseman, Geoffrey Bache Smith, and Robert Quilter Gilson. Other members were Wilfred and Ralph "the Baby" Payton, Thomas "Tea Cake" Barnsley, Vincent Trought, and Sidney Barrowclough.J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography, Part Two, ch. 4Colin Duriez, J.R.R. Tolkien: The Making of a Legend, ch. 3
The club's forming is loosely portrayed in the 2019 drama Tolkien. Close narrative of the four friends' correspondences and of the evolving state of the T.C.B.S. is given in John Garth's 2003 biography Tolkien and the Great War.
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