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Issue number 97 Spring 2017 WINERY FISHERY JIGGERY POKERY KNOBKERRY Decanter GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM £75 The East India THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE Club directory Ties The East India Club Silk woven tie in club Cut glass tumbler 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH colours. £20 Telephone: 020 7930 1000 Engraved with club Fax: 020 7321 0217 crest. £30 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk The East India Club DINING ROOM – A History Breakfast by Charlie Jacoby. Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am An up-to-date look at Saturday 7.15am-10am the characters who have Sunday 8am-10am Scarf made up the East India Lunch £17 Club. £10 Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm Bow ties (pianist until 4pm) Tie your own and, Saturday sandwich menu available for emergencies, The Gentlemen’s Dinner clip on. £20 Clubs of London Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm New edition of Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm Anthony Lejeune’s Table reservations should be made with the Front classic. £28 Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for 15 minutes after the booked time. Pre-theatre, let the Dining Room know if you would like a quick Hatband V-neck jumper supper. £15 Lambswool in AMERICAN BAR burgundy, L, XL, Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Saturday 11.30am-3pm XXL. £55 & 5.30pm-11pm Cufflinks Sunday noon-4pm Enamelled cufflinks & 6.30pm-10pm with club crest, Polo shirt Members resident at the club can obtain drinks from chain or bar. £24.50 In red or black, the hall porter after the bar has closed. L, XL, XXL. £25 EAST INDIA ROOM Monday to Friday. Light food and wine menu. Use of electronic devices on silent is permissible. SMOKING ROOM & WATERLOO ROOM Drinks and light menu from 9am to 10.30pm. Mug Saturday and Sunday 10am to 10pm. £14 BILLIARDS ROOM Open to members from 9am to midnight. Chocolate mint Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. creams £8 GYMNASIUM Blazers Club shield Open to members from 6am to 10pm. Suitable attire must be worn. £395 (navy) £350 (sports) £35 BEDROOM CHARGE Waistcoat Includes early morning tea, newspaper, English £160 breakfast, discretionary £5 per person per night Golf balls contribution to the staff fund, and VAT. All bed- Titleist golf balls. Bearing rooms are non smoking. club crest. £29 per dozen Napkin Members & immediate family Single with bathroom £120 (£74*) hook Single with shower £100 (£64*) £40 Golf tees Single without facilities £82 (£54*) Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Double or twin room for single occupancy £155 East India golf tees. £7.75 Double or twin room for double occupancy £178 St James’s Suite £288 Reciprocal members & guests Blazer buttons Single with bathroom £150 (£95*) Golf umbrellas Double breasted. £50 Single with shower £131 (£85*) Made in club Single breasted. £35 Double or twin room for single occupancy £181 colours of silver, Double or twin room for double occupancy £209 St James’s Suite £319 blue and red. £17 * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday Post and packing for non-breakables from and bank holidays £3. Breakable items are for collection MEMBERSHIP CARDS from the club instead of posting. Members are required to carry their membership cards at all times when visiting the club, and Umbrellas Rugby ball present them on arrival. It is essential that they are CLUB WINE: produced when signing for charges to accounts. Short. £20 With club Long. £25 shield. £25 See page 17 for details 2 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2017 A year filled with activity gives the chairman cause to celebrate Club diary... the East India Club’s finest attributes and endeavours: social occasions, wine tasting, the recent rugby lunches, sailing, CHAIRMAN’S REPORT May 10 Annual general meeting carols and our remarkably long-serving staff 17 Beer tasting 18 Guards Museum dinner CHAIRMAN’S REPORT June 3-7 Normandy battlefield tour y father told me once that his Graham’s 1985 is the vintage port currently 8 Tri clubs summer party mother would wake him on a gracing the East India list – a truly great wine 16 Young members’ dinner M Monday morning with the words only slightly in the shadow of the 1970 we 29 Conservation Trust garden party “Seven o’clock, Monday morning, tomorrow’s were treated to later on. It was also a delight Tuesday, the day after’s Wednesday, half to taste the Taylor 20-year-old tawny aged July the week’s gone and you’re not up yet!” Well in barrel rather than bottle – a different but 2 Cricket match v Chobham it is already March and the year is flying equally impressive experience to top the bill 4 Shakespeare in the Square past. Already we are looking ahead to the St for the evening (see page 14). 7 Jazz barbecue George’s day dinner on 20 April. Another great occasion was the yacht 13 Sweet wine tasting squadron laying up supper at which the Newman VC trophy was presented to the September winner of the inaugural race. The evening 7 Lord Mayor’s luncheon was made special by the presence of 28 Grouse dinner members of Colonel Newman’s family. The club presented a fine portrait of Lt Colonel Newman VC in uniform to his great grand- Bank Holidays daughter Evelyn Dalton. A similar portrait is Over bank holidays, bars and catering displayed permanently in the club. Rugby lunches on the Friday before are closed but accommodation and international matches at Twickenham continental breakfast is provided. This have become a popular fixture and are applies after breakfast on the Sunday well attended. I was present at the lunch of the bank holiday weekend and before the England vs Australia game where through the Monday. we had the pleasure of the company of The chairman at the tri clubs carol service in St James’s David Campese. He entertained us in true Australian style and taught some of the more The sensation of time rushing by in an vociferous diners what a rugby ball looks like. uncontrollable blur is made more acute by my He was stunned to an awed silence when we birthday which this year has a zero on it. I will visited the Rugby Room with its hall of fame. celebrate it with a weekend at the club. I am pleased to report that the club is It has been an active season as usual. The in good heart following 2016 which was Christmas events were as uplifting as ever; a successful year socially and in all other Reverend Lucy Winkett gave a thought- important respects. Although we face provoking sermon at our annual carol service challenges in 2017, the cheerful support of in St James’s church with the In & Out club and members and our excellent staff will ensure the Rag. She observed that, in the computer that we rise above them. Among our staff, a age, millions of us are asking particular mention must go questions through Google, He was stunned to Ofelia who has retired. Wikipedia and the world- to an awed silence I am sure everyone knows wide web. Such questions as when we visited her and she also knows all of you and has made our ‘Do penguins have knees?’ the Rugby Room East & West apparently asked more than “ breakfasts very special. a quarter of a million times. She invited us She will be much missed. It was my privilege Editor: Charlie Jacoby to ask more probing questions of ourselves to present Ofelia with her award for 40 years’ 07850 195353 [email protected] and gently guided us to some answers in the service to the club, a grand achievement. Designer: Chris Haddon 01279 422219 [email protected] Christmas message. I often” hear people say that the East Among the highlights for me was the port India Club has such a lively and pleasant Photography: Phil McCarthy. To download or order photography, login to the members’ tasting in November led by our Sommelier atmosphere which makes it such a good area of EastIndiaClub.com and select event Eric and presented John Symington, of the place to be. I know myself that this is true and photography family that has for generations produced the there is of course a reason for it which does 3 Printed by: Colour (ColourCubed.co.uk) greatest port under such names as Smith not often get a mention – we enjoy being Published on behalf of The East India Club by Woodhouse, Graham’s, Warre’s, Taylor and amongst such great members. So thank you Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com Dow. Tasting the range of Douro wines and to all of you for your company and fellowship. Cover photo: the gardens in spring the different styles and vintages of port was educational as well as heart-warming. The Iain Wolsey, chairman EAST & WEST – SPRING 2017 3 NEWS Rugby was at the forefront of many members’ minds as the Six Nations gathered pace. England’s success until the last made it easy to keep the home fires burning with the club’s own series of rugby lunches in advance of the England games Sports shorts PLAYERS MAN THE PUMPS EPICS night Warming up for the EPICS dinner in March he club’s golfing section EPICS, has a full programme of matches T throughout the summer: Friday 2 June 2017, Woking Golf Club Tuesday 11 July 2017, president’s day, Hankley Common Thursday 31 August 2017 New Zealand Golf Club Club president and former international Micky Steele-Bodger pulls a pint of Bodger’s Best for former Australia captain David Campese Friday 6 October 2017, captain’s day, Worplesdon Golf Club season of rugby lunches has kept The EPICS annual tour goes to North the bar in credit and clearly been Norfolk on 12-15 September 2017.