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Issue number 91 April 2015 Schools Schooners Squash Scots Sketches GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM TUMBLERS The East India Square tumbler THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE Engraved with club Club directory crest. £18.50 The East India Club ATTIRE 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH Club ties Decanter Telephone: 020 7930 1000 Silk woven tie in club £75 Fax: 020 7321 0217 colours. £19.50 Email: [email protected] Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk DINING ROOM Breakfast Cut glass tumbler Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am Engraved with club Saturday 7.15am-10am crest. £25.75 Sunday 8am-10am Lunch Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm BOOKS & CDs Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm The East India Club Club bow ties (pianist until 4pm) – A History Tie your own and, by Charlie Jacoby. Saturday sandwich menu available for emergencies, An up-to-date look at Dinner clip on. £19.50 the characters who have Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm made up the East India Scarf Club. £10 Table reservations should be made with the Front £17 Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for Club song 15 minutes after the booked time. Awake! Awake! A recording of the club AMERICAN BAR song from the 2009 St Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Cufflinks George’s Day dinner. £5 Saturday 11.30am-3pm Enamelled cufflinks & 5.30pm-11pm with club crest, Sunday noon-4pm The Gentlemen’s & 6.30pm-10pm chain or bar. £24.50 Clubs of London Members resident at the club can obtain drinks from New edition of the hall porter after the bar has closed. Anthony Lejeune’s classic. £28 EAST INDIA ROOM Monday to Friday. Light food and wine menu. Use of electronic devices on silent is permissible. OTHER ITEMS 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. Club blazers creams £8 Club shield £295/£325 (navy) £325 (sports) GYMNASIUM £61.50 Open to members from 6am to 10pm. Suitable attire must be worn. Club waistcoats BEDROOM CHARGE £160 Includes early morning tea, newspaper, English Golf balls breakfast and VAT. All bedrooms are non smoking. Titleist golf balls. Bearing Members club crest. £29 per dozen Single with bathroom £103 (£63*) Single with shower £88 (£54*) Single without facilities £72 (£45*) Golf tees Double or twin room for single occupancy £140 Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Double or twin room for double occupancy £156 Blazer buttons East India golf tees. £7.75 St James’s Suite £259 Double breasted. Reciprocal members & guests £45.00 Single with bathroom £133 (£83*) Single breasted. Single with shower £117 (£73*) £30.00 Golf umbrellas Double or twin room for single occupancy £164 Made in club Double or twin room for double occupancy £186 colours of silver, St James’s Suite £288 blue and red. £17 Club print * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and bank holidays A picture of the Post and packing for non-breakables from clubhouse on a £3. Breakable items are for collection MEMBERSHIP CARDS typical London Members are required to carry their membership from the club instead of posting. early evening. cards at all times when visiting the club. It is essential that they are produced when 52.5cm by CLUB WINE: signing for charges to accounts. 40cm. See page 17 for details £61.50 2 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2015 Refurbishment, Renewal and Regency have been the themes Club diary... of our steadfastly traditional club over the last four months. The chairman reports on new decorations, entertaining club CHAIRMAN’S REPORT April 3 Good Friday events and a full sporting programme for the rest of the year 6 Easter Monday 11 Varsity Boat Race 15 Library talk - club portraits CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 16 Young members’ dinner 23 St George’s Day dinner t is time for our fancy to turn lightly to is our parish church and members are always May brighter thoughts. Although it is still cold welcome at the services and events in the 4 Bank holiday I – it feels that the winter is over and the church. 13 Annual general meeting spring is bringing us new starts. I hope you That fancy of mine turns now to the 19 Rorke’s Drift lecture and dinner will admire, as I do, the ‘fuller crimson’ of the Waterloo Ball in March. I squeezed in to 25 Bank holiday superb new carpet in our newly redecorated full Regency kit, breeches, stockings and loud waistcoat included. It was an excellent June evening. St George’s Day and the Waterloo 11 Reception & Summer party events of the summer wil soon be upon us. 18 Waterloo service of remembrance Rugby lunches are also under way. This is also 21 Waterloo dispatch reception World Cup year so we will have rugby events and dinner to look forward to throughout the year. The club has secured the maximum allocation July of seats for members for the Twickenham 5 Club cricket match and lunch games. Of course there is also Test Cricket at at Chobham Cricket Club Lords – New Zealand in May and the Ashes 10 Jazz barbecue confrontation with Australia in July. I dare not 16 Wine tasting comment after the last Ashes series but I am sure members will enjoy the debenture seats Bank Holidays in the Mound stand whatever the score. The For the May bank holidays, bars The chairman in Regency costume lunch is jolly good anyway. and catering are closed from 4pm I have promised members to continue to on the Sunday of the bank holiday Dining Room. Thank you to everyone for your report on the issue of the defalcations and weekend and all day Monday. patience while the room was closed through ensuing legal matters from early last year. I Accommodation and continental January but I think it has been worth the wait. am pleased to say that, at least for the day breakfast remain available. It is nearly 20 years since this magnificent to day running of the club, this event is well room was last refurbished. Thank you to behind us thanks to the new arrangements For the August bank holiday, bars James and the team for keeping everything we have put in place and the good efforts and catering are closed after going through breakfast, lunch and dinner of management and staff. In terms of the breakfast on Sunday 30 August and with the unavoidable limitations of space. legal issues, however, it is not over and we reopen on Tuesday 1 September. One extra brighter thought is how splendid continue look for redress. We have now Accommodation and continental the East India Room is. I am sure we will received counsel’s opinion and the advice breakfast remain available. now enjoy it even more as we reintroduce has identified the best avenues for us to all-day service of food and wine bar features proceed. Naturally I cannot report in detail at to add to the variety that the club offers this moment and must avoid compromising to members and guests. It is also a room in our plans. Of course members will be given which members can relax reports of progress as soon as and read something (say it is right to do so and a fuller Tennyson’s Locksley Hall) on A room in which update at the AGM. iPad or tablet. The first event members can relax Well, this young (I wish!) East & West in the reopened Dining Room and read something man’s fancy turns now to was Burns’ Night – a wonderful thoughts of fishing and the Editor: Charlie Jacoby (say Tennyson’s evening made particularly year ahead in the club. As 07850 195353 [email protected] “ Locksley Hall) on special by the traditional toast always, our enjoyment is Designer: Chris Haddon iPad or tablet 01279 422219 [email protected] to the immortal memory by made what it is by our staff. Photography: Phil McCarthy. To download or David Purdie. Christmas and Thank you to all members order photography, login to the members’ the winter season have not faded completely who have contributed to the staff fund; many, area of EastIndiaClub.com and select event from memory. A record number attended but not all, of whom I have been able to write photography the carol concert and winter party. The to personally. It is much appreciated and I Sub-editor: Cicely Drewe advent carols in the Royal Chapel marked can” only ask that we continue to recognise in Printed by: Colour3 (ColourCubed.co.uk) the retirement of Bill Scott as sub dean and this way the great service of our unfailingly Published on behalf of The East India Club by we are grateful to him for all his support. cheerful and professional staff. I am sure it Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com Also many thanks to Reverend Lucy Winkett, is going to be the best year ever, whatever Cover photo: Gourmet dinner table setting rector of St James’s Church, for her unstinting measure there is. support of the club. Lucy reminds us that it Iain Wolsey, chairman EAST & WEST – SPRING 2015 3 NEWS With Waterloo 200 events under way, the club is playing a Games central part, thanks to No 16’s history as the place French Eagles were delivered to the Prince Regent. Members also Chess enjoy the unveiling of a new portrait and a good game of chess The Iron Duke and his clubs Knights of he Duke of Wellington was a member Wellington retired on Friday night from the board of the Athenaeum, Boodles, Whites, the Carlton Club, he declared that he T the City of London Club, the Carlton would not return to it; and we know that by Colin Ferguson Club, which has The Wellington Dining Room, he immediately set off for Strathfieldsay and was president of the Oriental Club.