Issue number 94 Spring 2016

HOLY HILARIOUS HEARTY HOWLING HOUNDS The East India GIFT SUGGESTIONS FROM TUMBLERS THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE Decanter Club directory £75 The East India Club ATTIRE 16 St James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LH Club ties Telephone: 020 7930 1000 Silk woven tie in club Fax: 020 7321 0217 colours. £20 Cut glass tumbler Email: [email protected] Engraved with club Web: www.eastindiaclub.co.uk crest. £30 DINING ROOM Breakfast BOOKS & CDs Monday to Friday 6.45am-10am Saturday 7.15am-10am The East India Club Sunday 8am-10am – A History Lunch by Charlie Jacoby. Monday to Friday 12.30pm-2.30pm An up-to-date look at Sunday (buffet) 12.30pm-2.30pm Scarf the characters who have (pianist until 4pm) £17 Club bow ties made up the East India Tie your own and, Club. £10 Saturday sandwich menu available for emergencies, Dinner clip on. £20 Club polo Monday to Saturday 6.30pm-9.30pm In red or black, Sundays (light supper) 6.30pm-8.30pm L, XL, XXL. £25 Table reservations should be made with the Front Desk or the Dining Room and will only be held for 15 minutes after the booked time. Hatband AMERICAN BAR £15 Club V-neck Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Lambswool in burgundy, Saturday 11.30am-3pm L, XL, XXL. £55 & 5.30pm-11pm Sunday noon-4pm Cufflinks & 6.30pm-10pm Enamelled cufflinks The Gentlemen’s Members resident at the club can obtain drinks from with club crest, Clubs of London the hall porter after the bar has closed. chain or bar. £24.50 New edition of Anthony Lejeune’s EAST INDIA ROOM classic. £28 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 BILLIARD ROOM Open to members from 9am to midnight. Chocolate mint Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. creams £8 GYMNASIUM Club blazers Club shield Open to members from 6am to 10pm. £315/£345 (navy) £345 (sports) Suitable attire must be worn. £35

BEDROOM CHARGE Club waistcoats 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

Members Single with bathroom £115 (£71*) Golf tees Single with shower £96 (£61*) Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Single without facilities £79 (£52*) Blazer buttons East India golf tees. £7.75 Double or twin room for single occupancy £149 Double breasted. Double or twin room for double occupancy £171 St James’s Suite £277 £45 Single breasted. £30 Reciprocal members & guests Golf umbrellas Single with bathroom £145 (£91*) Made in club Single with shower £126 (£81*) colours of silver, Double or twin room for single occupancy £174 blue and red. £17 Double or twin room for double occupancy £201 Club print St James’s Suite £307 A picture of the Post and packing for non-breakables from * Special rate on Friday, Saturday, Sunday clubhouse on a £3. Breakable items are for collection and bank holidays typical London from the club instead of posting. early evening. MEMBERSHIP CARDS Members are required to carry their membership 52.5cm by CLUB WINE: cards at all times when visiting the club, and 40cm. See page 17 for details present them on arrival. It is essential that they are £61.50 produced when signing for charges to accounts. 2 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 It has been a hard winter with the loss of two staff members Club diary... to illness – but the club thrives with popular events and a full

programme of more to come throughout the rest of 2016 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT April 3-10 South Africa battlefield tour 21 St George’s Day dinner

May CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2 Bank holiday 11 Annual general meeting 18 Gin tasting oday seems like the first day of spring. Lynch-Bages 2005 from our own club cellars 30 Bank holiday The sky is clear and bright and at – when this comes on to the wine list in a T last the grass is freshly mown for couple or more years do not miss it. The menu June the first time this year. Tomorrow, Jupiter is also contained instructions on good manners 9 Tri clubs summer party in opposition, which means cold nights out – I managed to resist the temptation to pick 17 Evening of jazz with the telescope to watch Io, Europa and my teeth with my knife and did not need to 19 Chobham CC vs East India Club blow my nose on the tablecloth. Cleaning up behaviour at court must have continued to be July a priority until Elizabethan times. 8 Jazz barbecue We have enjoyed some excellent library 14 Wine tasting lectures – notably in January Charles Moore on 15-18 WWI battlefield tour Baroness Thatcher. David Lough on Churchill completes the round of prime ministerial August greats. We will celebrate St George’s day 29 Bank holiday with our ever popular dinner. This marks the beginning of summer, the start of the cricket September season and Shakespeare’s birthday. It is also 19 Lord Mayor’s luncheon the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s 29 Grouse dinner death. We are delighted to welcome Johnny Barclay, formerly of England and captain Bank Holidays The chairman, singled out on Burns night of Sussex and a noted author to add his Over bank holidays, bars and catering entertaining words to our celebration of this are closed but accommodation and Ganymede scamper across the face of the appropriately English festival. continental breakfast is provided. This King of Planets. It is a good moment to pause Thanks to Captain Robbie Wilmont MBE of applies after breakfast on the Sunday for refection on things beyond the scale of the Irish Guards for making possible visits to of the bank holiday weekend and this small planet and our brief hours upon the the Wellington Barracks to watch the Queen’s through the Monday. The Royal Air stage. With sadness as well as gratitude, I Guard mount. We are looking forward to the Force Club at 128 Piccadilly kindly offers think of the long career at the club of Mhemed WWI battlefields tour taking in Ypres and its facilities to our members. Please Cherrabi, our senior porter who died of cancer parts of the 1 July Somme battle including book on 020 7399 1000. in December after a fight that showed his the Devonshire trench at Mansell Copse near characteristic courage and spirit. Also, I refect Mametz. It will be a four-day trip on 15-18 on the brilliant work done for our Library July and is guided by Major Gordon Corrigan. by Kath Posner who died in February. They There is a talk on 23 March at the club enriched our lives and we are grateful. entitled ‘Vignettes of Valour, the East India Over the last few months we have also Club in the Great War’. I hope those going to had some great enjoyment. The whole round South Africa to visit Rorke’s Drift have a good of the Christmas season was journey. I am sorry not to be entertaining. The choir of there myself but my gammy Forest School was, for me, a I managed to resist leg is a hindrance in battles highlight. The club celebrated the temptation to in that terrain. I will content East & West Burns night a little later than pick my teeth with my myself with some fishing Editor: Charlie Jacoby is usual but it was worth with my new rod (an essential 07850 195353 [email protected] knife and did not need the waiting. More recently “ purchase of course) instead. to blow my nose on Designer: Chris Haddon the gourmet dinner was In any case Rob Caskie will 01279 422219 [email protected] outstanding and different. The the tablecloth be giving a library lecture for Photography: Phil McCarthy. To download or order photography, login to the members’ menu, based on the earliest the rest of us on 9 November area of EastIndiaClub.com and select event known cookbook in the English language, at the club. Again a not-to-be-missed photography published in the reign of King Richard II, opportunity. Sub-editor: Cicely Drewe included humble pie, suckling pig and fig Finally, after an early Easter, good wishes Printed by: Colour3 (ColourCubed.co.uk) turnovers. On the wine front the star turn for an” enjoyable summer season. The Published on behalf of The East India Club by was a wine from Cyprus called Commandaria, club certainly provides more than enough Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club which would have been served at King opportunities for a splendid and sociable www.charliejacoby.com Richard’s table and was a great delight at summer. Thank you to all those in the club Cover photo: Lumiere London exhibition in St James’s Square ours. As the King was in fact Richard of who make these things happen. Bordeaux we were allowed a preview of the Iain Wolsey, chairman

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 3 NEWS Club members enjoyed a series of visits ‘behind the scenes’ Sports shorts at Wellington Barracks. The Irish Guards generously invited members, six at a time, to meet at the barracks for coffee, Gym watch the changing of the guard and even try on a bearskin Meeting the Micks Scull challenge

by Captain R J Wilmont MBE

here are no doubt many members were also on hand at this stage for guests of the club who have frequently to have a look at and try on for size if they so T travelled or strolled along wished which included a bearskin cap, red Birdcage Walk past Wellington Barracks tunic, medals and a ceremonial sword. without giving much thought as to what After coffee the group was then escorted actually goes on behind the metal railings to the front of the main building in time surrounding the parade square. With this in to witness the forming up ceremony sers of the Gym (the chairman mind as a fairly new member to the club and of the ongoing Queen’s Guard. As the famously says he does not know as a long serving career soldier I thought Guards conducted their parade routine the U where it is) have a new challenge. it might be of interest to arrange a short band played a rousing series of musical There is a new poster near the rowing visit for a small group of up to six members compositions which impressed both the machine where you can record your time at a time to see some of the history and guests and the growing crowds of tourists in a new time trial finishing on 3 July 2016. traditions which are embroiled within the which were massing outside the railings The competition is to row 2112m, the British Army and in particular with my to get a glimpse of what was going on. Just distance raced at Henley Royal Regatta, on own regiment, the Irish Guards. Four visits before the colours were handed over to the ergo ‘4’ setting. The fastest time will were arranged throughout January and the junior officer (ensign) the guests were be awarded ‘The Henley Pot’ after 3 July. February which lasted for about two hours escorted to the main gate which gave them each and consisted firstly of meeting in the the best possible vantage point to witness Irish Guards regimental headquarters for the new guard marching out of barracks Racquets coffee and an informal brief about some over to Buckingham Palace. of the regiment’s history. Various items of With the first phase of the ceremony ceremonial uniform and accoutrements over it was then time to return to the main Great squash building to have a look around the Irish by James Hodges Guards’ headquarters office and enjoy a glass of Champagne. It would be true to say he racquets section had a slow that the main office resembles a miniature start to the year. However we museum and has all sorts of interesting T have had continuing success with paintings, medals, photographs and increased numbers. Squash remains our silverware on display which have historical most favoured sport and the section significance to the regiment. After a half provides practice sessions for members. hour break from the brisk winter weather it was then time to move back outside to witness the old guard marching back into barracks where they then acknowledge the Shooting colours being retrieved from the ensign and carried under escort to the safety of the officers’ mess. High birds With the guard mount complete the final he shooting section offered a part of the visit consisted of a short visit variety of clay and game days to the Guards Chapel for an informal brief T throughout the season and about the history of the building and the afterwards. Chris Taylor put forward three colours of the Household Division regiments guns at Drewton Manor, East Yorkshire which are retained there. This concluded at in January. On the edge of the Yorkshire approximately 12.30pm which gave enough Wolds and with a number of steep time to allow guests the option of returning valleys it has some interesting high bird back to the club for lunch or drinks. shooting. Meanwhile, Iain Shone offered Overall those who attended seemed to a 175-bird day at Newnham on Severn enjoy the experience and many commented in Gloucestershire. In February, thanks on how informative it had been. Additional to Rob Farrow, Shaftesbury Rotary Club visits will be factored into the diary at asked the shooting section to join its clay various stages during the coming months so shooting day in Dorset. The day included a please keep an eye on the club website for 50-bird sporting shoot and even gun hire. Guardsman with the regimental mascot more information.

4 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 NEWS The club is extending itself with a series of tours this Long shorts summer. Among them, the cricketers are off to Oporto and the general membership is invited to visit the battlefields of Kitchen the First World War Top terrine WWI battlefield tour

he club prepares to visit the World War I battlefields of the Somme T and Ypres this summer. The trip will commemorate some of the most savage battles of the war that took place 100 years ago this year. From 15 to 18 July 2016, club members will head for Lille by Eurostar, meet a coach and ‘Wipers’ after the war travel to the Somme. Leading the trip will be Major Gordon Corrigan MBE, who entertained in the Great War’. members and guests with an excellent talk The battle of the Somme started on 1 July pprentice chef Joe Langridge at the recent Gurkha dinner. His first evening 1916 and lasted 141 days. After a night in (left) competed in the Salon lecture in France is entitled ‘Myth and Reality Arras, the coach will transfer to Ypres for an A Culinaire at Hotel Olympia in overview of the Salient. That night will be in the student terrine display section. Joe Dixsmuide. secured a best in class award and a silver Day 3 will provide an overview of the three medal for his work. He is pictured here battles of Ypres, from Gheluvelt in 1914 with proud head chef Mark Leach. to Passchendaele in 1917. That evening members and guests will take part in the Last Post ceremony at the Menin Gate. Boxing After a morning visiting the site of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (March 1915), the party will return to Lille for the return journey Gloves on to London by Eurostar. To book a place or places, contact the ne of the advantages of seeking The last post at the Menin Gate secretary. out new events is that they O lead to more new events. The trips to see the Irish Guards led to the annual tour in July. The section is always regiment offering the club access to the Cricket looking for new members to get involved, military boxing club in Grove Park. A notice whether in a playing or merely social has gone up on the noticeboard where capacity. If you are at all interested, please members can now sign up. No experience Fixture mixture email [email protected] necessary. Cricket supporters have much to look by Ed Case forward to at Chobham this summer. he cricket section is gearing up for the The annual David Turnbull cup against Waterloo 200 2016 season with exciting fixtures Chobham Cricket Club takes place on T lined up against both old adversaries 19 June 2016. It is organised by Duncan and new opponents. Pre-season nets at both Steele-Bodger, a deputy chairman of the HRH’s reception Lord’s and the Oval have been booked and East India Club and president of CCC. The drinks for new and old members will be in Turnbull Cup starts at noon, a marquee ceremony and reception at the diary shortly. The team will be returning lunch is available at £50 which includes a Windsor Castle (after East & to the reciprocal club in Porto, Portugal, The pre-lunch reception, lunch and wine. A West went to press) took place in Oporto Cricket & Lawn Tennis Club , for the Contact the secretary for details. March 2016 to commemorate Waterloo 200 and the New Waterloo Dispatch. It was held in the presence of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Its aim was to raise awareness of the New Waterloo Dispatch, which is part of the educational legacy of Waterloo 200. It includes working with schools and it aims to be a visible way of educating people of all ages about the Battle of Waterloo, its context and lasting The Chobham match last year significance for Britain and Europe.

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 5 Throughout the winter, the trout stand on their heads at the bottom of long, cold glides. Happily, the fyfishing section does Indoor games SPORT AND GAMES SPORT not have to do that. There have been dinners, a grayling day Chess and now a full calendar of fishing to look forward to Pawn cocktail FLYFISHING by Colin Ferguson ur combined HR Cup Team started Trout and Mammon its league campaign with an O emphatic victory against the t wasn’t all fishing, fishing, fishing. The Reform Club by the winning margin of ½ section enjoyed a good dinner in January, to 5½ in this away match. We also played I in conjunction with the Lawyer’s Fishing three friendly boards which we won 1-2, Club. East India Club chairman Iain Wolsey which rounded things up nicely. was after-dinner speaker and amused the In January, we held a combined team gathering with tales from the riverbank. social chess evening at the Oriental Club. On that riverbank, the section took part We play our Hamilton Russell matches in winter fyfishing activities, including a jointly with the Oriental. Seven from ORI grayling day at Wherwell. A mix of LFC and and five from EIC enjoyed circa two hours EIC members and guests saw ten gather of round-robin chess games and a lovely that day for a fine cooked English breakfast two-course dinner plus club wine. of club standard. A roast chicken lunch of In February, we lost narrowly to the ample proportions followed later in the day: Athenaeum Club by 3½ to 2½. There were a bargain for £55 including the fishing. two good wins by IJ Parry (EIC) and Robert

The weather was wet after breakfast but The chairman addresses the fyfishing McClatchey (ORI) along with a hard fought cheered up by mid morning when heavy section dinner half by Hamilton McMillan (ORI). We were rain gave way to a light drizzle though thumped in our friendly match versus with a keen wind. All members caught Carl Statham with 12 browns and a grayling. MCC. It was very much deja vu from the something with 35 out of season browns to This year’s beginners’ and new members’ heavy cup defeat by them of the previous around 2 pounds being carefully returned. day will be held once again at Rib Valley week. Later in the month, the combined The grayling were more difficult but 13 Lakes in Hertfordshire on 2 April. We will be team excelled themselves by defeating succumbed to the skill of members – the joined by Mark Windsor from Farlows of Pall Oxford & Cambridge away by the narrow best around a pound. Top rod on the day was Mall, Howard Day from Outside Days and margin of 2½ to 3½. They were then in Mary Harkin of Rory’s in Dublin. Mary Harkin pole position on top of the league having is fying in especially to help us provide played four and won four – and then they tuition throughout the day – Mary used to ran up against us. It is the first time that fish internationally for the Ladies’ Irish Fly we have overcome them in a cup match Fishing team. Topped off by sponsorship for about five years, so a sliver of gloating again from tackle manufacturer Orvis, we is not amiss. There were excellent wins for will have top class tuition and top class Yarislav Voropayev (EIC), IJ Parry (EIC) and

Flyfishing section chairman Peter Matthison’s equipment for our beginners to take their Hamilton McMillan (ORI). IJ won his match unlucky 1½lb winter trout first steps into the world of fyfishing. in a time race to the line by 38 seconds. Finally, Peter Haddock (ORI and captain) secured an excellent half against a most Richard Burr (standing) entertains fyfishing There’s nothing wrong with any of that, notable opponent. Well done him as he Clubsection members chaplain and guests with talk of cake but it obscures the thing we celebrate. regathers his strength from recent illness. Jesus was dead, stone-cold dead. Heart How we have missed his dry wit and by The Reverend Canon Roger J Hall MBE, stopped. No breathing. And then he was steady leadership. alive again, showing forth God’s love in The annual Hamilton-Russell Dinner will uke 24: 11. But these words seemed new ways. be held on 13 September at the MCC Lords. to them an idle tale and they did not If we aren’t overwhelmed by Easter, we L believe him. aren’t taking it seriously. If we take Easter We might scoff at the apostles for thinking seriously, it will rattle our understanding of Backgammon Jesus’ resurrection was an ‘idle tale.’ Once reality. Easter celebrates the astounding people die, they stay dead. That’s how the claim that God’s love is stronger than the Counter offensive world works. power of empire, stronger than heavy So, if someone told me that a dead person stones, stronger than our greatest fears he club’s backgammon section is had come to life again, I’d think they were and stronger ‘even than death’. currently lying eighth out of 10 in crazy. Services at the Chapel Royal HM Tower T the London league table. Our top The radical claim of Easter is sometimes of London are published in the club and player is Maxim McDonald who has won 17 lost amidst all the fowers, Easter eggs, the everyone is welcome. of the 30 matches he has played for the beloved hymns and family rituals, and the www. club. Visit www.mccbackgammon.com and thrill of a full church. thechapelsroyalhmtowerofondon.org.uk click on the London League tab.

6 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 An assembly of broths and stuffed birds as may have not been seen nor tasted since the Battle of Bosworth. That was the 15TH CENTURY chef’s medieval dinner, the theme of this year’s gourmet dinner GOURMET DINNER

t was the most ambitious gourmet dinner that chef has attempted. The The London Fanfare Trumpeters I menu called on menus from the reign of King Richard II for the ‘Club of the East India Men, their good Ladies and True Friends’. Talking about the accompanying wine was Mark Pardoe MW, the club’s wine advisor. He chose wines that – if not recognisable to medieval diners – included some of the techniques in viticulture that were known then.

John Quamina

Mark Pardoe MW links 21st century wine with medieval cuisine

Good Marks: wine committee chairman David Cartwright thanks Marks Leach and Pardoe Chicken à la 15th century David Taylor

Young members Casino evening

he young members’ committee put on one of their popular casino T evenings. It was only fake money but there was the kind of tragedy and high rolling played out that you might not expect outside Monaco or Las Vegas. Games included blackjack, poker and roulette. As well as the gambling, members and guests enjoyed a buffet supper and music from the Nick Durcan Band. Emotions running high

Betting tips: card sharps in the Smoking Room Some 80 members and guests came to the event Poker was popular

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 7 BLYTH

There are two portraits in the Card Room, and it may cross the minds of people holding meetings there to know whether or not they are related. One is Devonshire Club founder committee member Lord Blyth of Blythwood. The other is Devonshire Club chairman Ormond Blyth. They are related: uncle and nephew BLYTH SPIRITS OF THE DEVONSHIRE

ast year, East & West carried leave at the outbreak. He persuaded many Ormond (born in 1879) was Devonshire illustrations from the autograph book of them to sign on again. It was that and the Club chairman from 1941 until his sudden L owned by chairman of the Devonshire Devonshire’s role as host (for cash) to clubs death on 16 October 1947. A devoted Club, Ormond Blyth. They were of the including the Caledonian that ‘fortified the Devonshire man and a bachelor, he lived famous and otherwise whose company he revenue’, as author Denys Forrest writes in in the club for long periods. He was also a enjoyed at the club on St James’s Street from Foursome in St James’s, the story of the East member of the Public Schools Club (another 1898 until his death. India Club and the other clubs, including the club that eventually merged with the East Ormond Blyth’s portrait hangs in the Card Devonshire, that merged with it. India Club) and chairman or governor of Room and his family were closely associated Ormond Blyth’s attachment to the club numerous charities. with the Devonshire Club. He led a drive for stemmed from his uncle James, 1st Baronet Shortly before his death he celebrated survival during the Second World War after and Baron Blyth (1841-1925), a director of 50 years’ membership of the Devonshire the venerable club saw numerous members wine merchant W&A Gilbey and founder by presenting a pair of entrance lamps to member of the Devonshire who served on replace two that had been stolen. the committee from the start.

Sketch by the illustrator Arthur Rackham (1919), in Lord Blyth of Blythwood, by Williams Orchardson RA Ormond Blyth’s autograph book Ormond Blyth by Maurice Codner RA

at the age of four years old and entered On his death, club members raised a Eastindiaman the nearby Winslow Workhouse, which had subscription, as the newspaper of the day connections with the ‘East India Company’. reported it, ‘upon their return from their He worked at Claydon House, home of Sir country seats’, to help his widow 1877 tragedy Harry and Lady Penelope Verney. Penelope and children. was a sister of Florence Nightingale. By t was a shock for the club 139 years ago. 1871, he was married and working as a One of our waiters, Thomas Stevens, waiter and possible maître d’ at the East I was knocked down in the road and died, India Club. just six days after the birth of his youngest son. He had three other children. The club was delighted to welcome Thomas Stevens’ great, his great great, and great great great granddaughters for a visit to the clubhouse, the place where their ancestor worked. Thomas was born in 1846 at Stewkley Original report: Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper, Follow-up story: Lloyd’s Weekly London in Buckinghamshire. He became an orphan Sunday 19 August 1877 Newspaper, Sunday 26 August 1877

8 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 CLUB LIFE CLUB Bring on the whisky, the haggis, the neeps and the PARISH PUMP tatties: it is the annual Burns Night supper at the club St James’s, Piccadilly

the East India Club’s location in BURNS NIGHT St James’s Square puts it a short T step away from St James’s Church, Piccadilly, of which parish we belong. As Donald McPherson mugs the ‘Dickens’ out of Holy ike a lion-tamer, Micky Steele-Bodger well as services at St Peter Ad Vincula Willie’s Prayer threatened, growled and cajoled a in the Tower of London, held by club L whole pride of speakers, performers chaplain the Reverend Canon Roger J Hall and wits into producing as entertaining MBE (see page 6), we are welcome to go a Burns Night at the club as anyone can to St James’s where the vicar is BBC Radio remember. At the same time, chef turned 4 regular the Rev Lucy Winkett. St James’s the often unloved fare of Scotland into a maintains a full programme of music and culinary triumph. Andy MacDonald’s guitar church services. playing was as memorable as the talk about The music is especially impressive. On Burns’ life and the performances by Donald 7 April, the Merry Opera Company will McPherson and Keith Wallace competed put on a staged performance of Handel’s with each other for pantomime. Dr Sharon Messiah. Two evenings later, the London

Redrobe, chief executive of Twycross Zoo, Professor David Purdie gave a superb address Lawyers’ Symphony Orchestra conducted pointed out the similarities between apes about the life and times of Robbie Burns by Pablo Urbina will play Beethoven’s and men in her ‘reply from the lassies’. Overture Leonora No 2, Dvořák’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra and Symphony No 9 From the New World. In May, pianist Michael Andreas Häringer will play music by Mozart, Chopin and Liszt, and violinist Erzhan Kulibaev and pianist Ilya Kondratiev will play Beethoven, Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Saint-Saëns. There is even a club theme. On Saturday 14 May, you can enjoy a performance of Sir Malcolm at his Club, English music for strings by Malcolm Arnold and fellow Savile Club members with the Chamber Ensemble of London. Keith Wallace uses a kind of Scottish tai chi to Visit SJP.org.uk express his appreciation of the haggis The speeches reached new heights of hilarity

“Sorry about that ‘guv’. It’s me nerves”. A little A message from the Pigeon Loft later the rider would return across the stable yard with a bag of carrots. Before he entered by Alan Taylor he shared) had a pleasant character, slightly the stables Donnar – as with any horse – marred by the habit of bucking now and would recognize his owner’s footsteps and his pigeon lofter enjoys a then. Until he learned to stay in the saddle, whinny with pleasure (at the prospect of the conversation wherever he can find he occasionally found himself lying fat carrots). Tone. Sitting shoulder to shoulder on the ground with ‘Adler’ sniffing him in a Now back to conversation without with other members at the club table he is comforting sort of way. Whereupon he slowly animal participation at the club. The in his element and there is no stopping him. remounted. His second horse – a Hanoverian Waterloo Room with its fairly intimate In general the same applies to the American called Donnar – he owned outright. In and proportions gives you a good chance of bar. But here there is one frequent topic to around the stables Donnar was as obedient, catching someone’s eye and starting to talk. which he can contribute relatively little: and gentle and amusing as you could wish. But The Smoking Room, however, is far larger that is sport, particularly rugger. once well into the large tracts of forest and it is more difficult to come into contact It all goes back to his school days when nearby he was often difficult to control and with members often sitting far off. they put him into the second row scrum (a displayed his prowess at bolting at the first As you would expect, the pigeon lofter position which did not suit him) and forgot opportunity. This habit meant that no other has found a solution to this problem. After all about him for two years. This experience rider would join him on a hack. much discussion and practice with other might have put him off sport for life. But (and Back ‘home’ after a particularly members, this is what he proposes. On the world sighed with relief) this was not so. strenuous tussle, Donnar tried to make entering the smoking room the pigeon lofter In 1965 – having settled into teaching amends by giving his owner a friendly poke will give a clear whinny. The first member to in west Berlin – he was introduced to riding with his muzzle while he was picking out whinny in return will get a conversation and and found he liked it. The first horse (which his hoofs as if to say (in German of course): – afterwards – some carrots.

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 9 From 6.30pm to 10.30pm on four nights in January, a French artist suspended brightly lit

LUMIERE LONDON LUMIERE chicken-wire figures around St James’s Square and gardens. It was part of a London-wide festival of art and light LIGHTING THE GARDENS AT NIGHT Lumiere London graces St James’s gardens in January

n the middle of January, Lumiere came to London. The light festival saw Icreations across the capital including a telephone box turned into a fish aquarium and a vast elephant’s bottom at one end of a Mayfair street. Club members enjoyed one of the shows on our doorstep. Paris-born artist Cedric Le Borgne creates illuminated human figures he calls ‘Les Voyageurs’ using delicately sculpted chicken wire. They hung in and around the gardens and from buildings on the square. The whole show was produced by an agency called Artichoke and paid for by the Mayor of London.

10 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 No sailing in winter so the East India Club yacht squadron came BY SAILING to the club to dine, reminisce and award each other prizes for navigational errors LAYING UP SUPPER

A toast for ‘Brother France’

by Jim Miller, commodore, EIC YS came to our club earlier this year as this milestone was passed. he East India Club yacht squadron With the assembled 42East persons India standing, Club Yacht Squadron assembled to commence its laying we were quorate in squadron form and all ex spiritu substantiae T up supper in November last year things nautical. From the squadron, we together with the EIC shooting section and had every officer present and standing, various additional guests. apart from the squadron padre, Lachlan The evening commenced in the Long Mulholland, currently undergoing a period of Room of Purdey, the gunmakers foundedEast in Indiaintense training Club under Yacht the eyes Squadron of His Grace, 1814. We were delighted to see on displaytoasts a our Brother Archbishop, at France Lambeth Palace. during Laying Up Supper - 30th November 2015 fine Purdey shotgun made for the 3rd Earl of The proceedings continued with a dashing St Vincent, a nephew of Nelson’s commander toast by Alex Van Ingen to the Royal Temple Sir John Jervis, the 1st Earl of St Vincent. Yacht Club, great friends that we made in We then moved to the club where our the summer during our W200 activities at The EIC YS assembled to commence its proceedings began in the Clive Room. A keg of beer and fine club wines for the ladies were laying up supper on 30th November accompanied by nautical hornpipes and jigs 2015 together with the EIC Shooting played by the Trafalgar Drummers, attired in Section and various additional guests. 1805 pattern Royal Marines Band uniform. Soon, the Trafalgar Drummers let out a clear bugle call and we moved into the East The event was held only two weeks after India Room where a magnificent table for 42 the Bataclan atrocities in Paris: most people had been laid out in one long line for likely involving the first formal dinner in the squadron and its guests. Race captain Paul Rose had the captain’s socks laid out the Club since then, the Squadron ahead of him. Spaced at regular intervals decided to note the matter with a along the table was the squadron silverware statement of solidarity. consisting of the EIC YS RTIR trophy and the new Merula’s Cup. At the other end, I had three heavy pewter Commodore’s tankards The evening commenced in the Long in position, ready for dispensing later on in Room of Purdey, the gun makers. There, the evening. Stephen Murray of Purdey gave a fine We got off to a good start with squadron secretary Dr Alex Langley making a fawless account of the history of the company reading of the Caius College, Cambridge, and its famous products. Stephen grace in its original Latin. After dinner, Trafalgar drummers explained how Purdey only finished his Lieutenant Mike Smith, South Africa Naval apprenticeship in 1805 so was never to Reserve, veteran of multiple ocean sailing Ramsgate. This was followed by Paul Rose races across the Atlantic between Africa and proposing the toast to the ladies. The final make a gun for the country’s most South America, rose and stood to propose toast I gave to our club and squadron. famous sailor, Lord Nelson. However, The Trafalgar Drummers the Brother France Toast. Our event took The evening was rounded off with very we were delighted to see on display a place just two weeks after the Bataclan fine after-dinner talks and question-and- atrocities. answer sessions by Stephen Murray of fine Purdey shotgun made for the 3rd Lieutenant Smith laid out with his incisiveEarl of PurdeySt Vincent, and by Alastair a nephew Mazumdar ofon ‘HowNelson’s to commander Sir John Jervis, the 1st Earl of St insight and great wisdom the changing Vincent.Run 100,000 tonnes of Ship’. of our relationship with France over the Both fascinating talks went down centuries. He recalled that the time of the splendidly with the assembled company last serious dust-up between the partiesAfter perusingand all retired the upstairs items or home on salevery well in the fine gun shop, we then moved over to the Club was now just more than 200 years behindwhere refreshedour proceedings indeed after a finebegan laying inup the Clive Room. A keg of beer, with side orders of fine us and how HM The Queen’s daughter, HRHclub winessupper for in preparation the ladies, for the was winter accompanied months by nautical hornpipes and jigs played by the The Princess Royal, a fine sailor in her own ashore. right as the operator of a Rustler 44 alongTrafalgar Fitting Drummers, Out Supper 14 Aprilattired at 7.30pm in 1805 will pattern Royal Marines Band uniform. with her husband Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, take place in the Clive Room Page 1 of 5 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 11 Of all the post Second World War prime ministers of Britain, nobody inspires such passion nor LIBRARY TALK LIBRARY such divison as Margaret Thatcher. Richard Batley discusses Charles Moore’s library lecture on the recently published biography of former prime minister and frequent guest at the club

The whisky and perfume behind the iron

by Richard Batley the mid 1990s Mrs Thatcher said to him that her amusement. Having laid bare her anti- she thought it would “probably be best if communist credentials, the prime minister he 2016 library lecture season got off something comes out later this year”. The changed tone and began to discuss what to a rip-roaring start in January with idea of a project lasting many years and could be done to help Gorbachev’s reforming T Charles Moore entertaining a splendid culminating in a three-volume work had agenda and plans for nuclear reduction. By turnout of more than 100 members and their simply not occurred to her. the end, the two leaders were getting on so guests. In his compelling and frequently very To give a favour of the second volume Mr well that Mr Gorbachev missed a party at the witty talk Mr Moore discussed the second Moore then ran through a day-by-day account Soviet Embassy in Holland Park. volume of his authorised biography of of a single week during the ‘middle period’ of Then to Beijing and the signing of the Sino- Margaret Thatcher, Everything She Wants. Mrs Thatcher’s premiership. British Joint Declaration that would formalise After the first volume covering her early life In December 1984, Mrs Thatcher met the ‘one country, two systems’ approach to and up to the Falklands War, this book begins Mikhail Gorbachev for the first governing Hong Kong after with victory in the Falklands and concludes time over lunch at Chequers. 1997. Deng Xiaoping was also with the 1987 general election. Both books Gorbachev was not yet I don’t approve of her curious what Mrs Thatcher are, as Lord Owen described the lady herself, leader of Soviet Union, but as prime minister but, had learnt about Mikhail “a heady mix of whisky and perfume”. had been identified by the by God, she’s a great Gorbachev during their recent Mr Moore began by telling members how Foreign Office as most likely to meeting and, after giving a “tank commander much he enjoyed writing the books. Most succeed the ailing Chernenko. cursory reply, she set off to importantly, Mrs Thatcher always displayed “a Initially it did not go well. Washington to discuss the glorious lack of introspection” and during her She raised attempts by the Soviet Union to Gorbachev meeting in detail with President lifetime had little interest in the progress of fund the ongoing miners’ strike, he berated Reagan. the work. Mr Moore avoided the biographers’ materialistic capitalism and said that, despite Mr Moore painted a picture of the Thatcher- curse of “the subject sitting on your shoulder shortages, people in the Soviet Union lived Reagan” relationship in which Mrs Thatcher and imagining writing it themselves.” When more ‘joyously’ – a word that Mrs Thatcher was effectively treated as a secretary of state Mr Moore was handed the commission in later underlined in the minutes to express in the US administration, though a favoured minister with the ear of the president at that. Mr Moore said that Reagan’s advisors would frequently convince him of a particular course of action on the grounds that “it’s what Margaret wants”. This time Mrs Thatcher needed a favour. Plans to privatise British Airways were foundering because of a price- fixing case being brought against it by the US Department of Justice; would the president speak to the attorney general and get him to drop the prosecution? This would be totally unconstitional, much like the prime minister telling the Crown Prosecution Service to drop a case in this country. So, of course, Reagan did it anyway. The case was dropped and British Airways was privatised a year later. Mr Moore concluded with a vignette from the same week emphasising Mrs Thatcher’s blend of charm and tenacity. Flying from Beijing to Washington the prime minister’s plane had been required to refuel in Honolulu in the middle of the night. Even a short stay demanded a diplomatic welcome and a group of sleepy-eyed US Navy officers went on board the plane to greet Mrs Thatcher, whereupon she enthusiastically told them how she had always wanted to see Pearl Harbour. This was discouraged, the naval station was close by but would require a long Charles Moore in the Smoking Room drive around the perimeter of the runway.

12 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 Unperturbed, the Prime Minister produced TALK LIBRARY a torch from her handbag (which she had carried since the Brighton bomb the previous October) and led the surprised party straight down the runway to view the harbour. However, as Mr Moore suggested, the incident was not as spontaneous as it appears. The determination and reverence Mrs Thatcher had shown in visiting Pearl Harbour, one of the sacred sights of American history, was not lost on Reagan and his advisors the following day when, of course, Britain was asking for a big favour. If you are pushing the president of United States to act unconstitutionally, it’s probably best to butter him up a bit first. Popular event: members and guests took every available seat for this latest Library lecture In questions Mr Moore was asked what he believed Mrs Thatcher’s main achievement conclusion that the British establishment’s a left-wing critic who, while watching Mrs had been. Rather than political goals or a docile acceptance of hyper-infationary Thatcher’s speech to the Conservative Party particular policy Mr Moore suggested that her decline was wrong and, crucially, could be Conference just hours after the Brighton career serves as a reminder that change is not reversed. bomb attempt on her life, remarked, “I don’t as impossible as it is sometimes presented. It is a determination that transcends approve of her as prime minister, but by God By the mid-1970s she had simply come to the mere politics. In his book, Mr Moore quotes she’s a great tank commander.”

Richard Batley argues that the autumn lecture by Ferdinand Empire’. David Cameron is Mount’s cousin and so the story naturally piqued his interest. Mount showed how the spirit of the East India Company is Reading the story and comparing it to the alive and well, and at home at the club now forgotten book Fifty Years with John Company: from the letters of General Sir John Low of Clatto, Fife, 1822-1858 written KEEPING LOW COMPANY by his Aunt Ursula in 1932, he discovered that ‘Aunt Ursie’ was in fact the sole source for the article. Mary Cameron, David’s The British in India in the nineteenth century mother, supplied Mount with a tin box of letters and minutes of meetings that John t is easy to forget that the East India of government in Asia came into being. Low had brought back with him from India Company was one of the great forces As Ferdinand Mount made clear in and which during the intervening decades I that shaped the modern world. From the his library talk in October, there is also a had languished on top of various family initial colonisation of the ‘spice islands’ in the distinctly human angle to the history of the bookshelves. The result is a rare book that Indian Ocean to the East India Company tea East India Company that has been similarly mingles the history of British India with that was thrown into Boston Harbour on the overlooked. Mount’s great-grandfather, the personal history of its impact on one morning of 16 December 1773, ‘the company’ John Low, was a key figure in the company’s family; the heartbreaking agonies of long was present at the creation of the world we government of India in the 19th century, separations and deaths of children as well as live in today. beginning his career assisting Lord Minto’s glamorous balls and firtations in hill stations. For many years, however, mainstream capture of Java in 1815 and ending it as the In his informative and hugely entertaining historians were largely silent on the topic. British resident in Oudh, paving the way for talk Mount noted that the portraits of many The infuence of the company was vast its eventual inclusion in the Raj. We learn of the characters that appear in his book and its legacy remains controversial and from reading the book that Low’s career hang on the walls of the club and so John politically charged – not really the stuff also brought him into contact with Lord Low would still feel at home within its walls of coffee table history books. So for many Dalhousie, one of the founding patrons today. All of which serves as a reminder years the ‘company’ was a forgotten titan, of the club, and, among other colourful that, like the progressive historians of with only two legs of this once Asiatic characters thrown up by British India, the the 20th century and Mount’s own family, Ozymandias left standing in London; East novelist William Makepeace Thackeray. we are remiss in acknowledging the role India Docks to the east and the East India However, as Mount discussed, much like of the company in our own club’s history. Club in the west. the grander narrative of the company in The excellent, annual East India Company Recent years have started to see a world affairs, its role in his own family was dinners, the sixth of which will be held this reversal of this trend. Niall Ferguson’s largely overlooked and forgotten for most of year, and a series of library lectures on East Channel 4 series and bestselling book, his life. “When we did talk about the company India Company topics are, I hope, starting to Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World in the family, which was not very often, we redress this. Because the true foundations introduced armchair historians to the history referred to it as ‘low company’”, Mount dryly of our club are the life’s works of the likes of of the company. Meanwhile, the growing noted. John Low and his contemporaries, characters economic importance of Asia has renewed But, while glancing through The Sunday who were once the beating heart of a vast academic interest in how today’s patchwork Times in October 2011 Mount noticed a story global trading system; the contours of which of national boundaries, rivalries and methods titled ‘By Jingo, PM’s family killed for the are still clearly visible today.

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 13 Rugby lunches Many members agree: the Christmas celebrations at the club mark the start of Christmas. Events in 2015 included a joint

atthew Ebsworth’s excellent carol service with other clubs in St James’s, Piccadilly, a carol CHRISTMAS AT THE CLUB AT CHRISTMAS rugby lunches continue to mark concert and our visit to the Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace M the matches of the Six Nations. The Friday before England’s big games, Matthew invited rugby luminaries plus members and guests to the club to enjoy a Tri clubs carol service pre-match reminisce. ll three clubs on St James’s Square came together for a joint carol A service at St James’s Church on Piccadilly. Afterwards, members returned to their own clubs with guests for dinner or other celebrations. At the East India Club, it was the winter party.

Special guests: members line up with the Irish Guards before the England-Ireland match

Ice sculpture at the winter party Club members singing from the same hymn sheet

Heavy petting: guests enjoyed meeting the Irish Guards regimental mascot

The Rev Lucy Winkett A magician entertained members and guests

Carol concert

he Forest School excelled in front of an enthusiastic audience at the club’s annual carol concert. Some Irish themes with Matthew Ebsworth in club T 28 members of the school’s senior chapel blazer and (right) rugby legend Mick Quinn choir, from year 9 to year 13, arrived at the club accompanied by director of music, Iain McGregor. The Forest School choir They performed nine lessons and carols mingled with Tennyson and Betjeman, and Ukrainian and Spanish anthems alongside traditional favourites such as Holst’s In the Bleak Midwinter and Vaughan Williams’ The Truth from Above. The choir did a splendid job and received a standing ovation from the members and guests, and warm congratulations from the club chairman, Iain Wolsey. Warden Antony Faccinello said afterwards: Before the event, members and guests enjoyed “I am still elated after an utterly brilliant drinks in the Clive Room. Here are (left-right) David performance.” and Katie Cartwright, and Caroline and Ken Barnes Marking territory: Druid is usually the only dog allowed in the club

14 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 WINE

The start of the year is club sommelier Eric Lagré’s moment to bring the joy of wine to a new group of people. His excellent ‘introduction to tasting’ aims to bring wine tasting to tyros ALL WHITE ON THE NIGHT by Eric Lagré

very year, in January, I look forward Sauvignon. It is also the finest wine in the different Fino, plus a Manzanilla, also from to running the ‘Introduction to fight, more well-balanced and integrated Andalusia, Spain, as well as a Vin Jaune from E Tasting’ evening. First of all, it is an than the Gigondas and much more intense the Jura, France. We do not list those wines, opportunity for the wine team to fall in love than the entry-level wine from the Luberon. for they can prove a bit of an acquired taste. again with wines from the club’s list. Writing The question of quality is a rather esoteric Yet, the question of the colour in relation thorough tasting notes for the members in one. How many time do I hear “wine is wine”. to those wines is of particular interest. All preparation to the blind tasting game does Here, members are able to understand the three wines had a pungent sherry scent, indeed revive the memory of the seduction concept, just by tasting contrasting wines. A which meant that they were all matured that had us select these wines in the first triangle will always look more angular next biologically under a layer of yeast for. These place. The event is also a direct way to to a circle, won’t it? wines come out of the cask displaying a interact with the members and stimulate I opened the evening with three characteristic medium gold colour. Having their analytical sense. Attendees often seemingly identical-looking wines, so much been carbon-filtered prior to bottling, the surprise themselves with the sophistication so that they could have well been one and more commercial manzanilla was given and accuracy of the comments they the same wine. One sniff, and it became a pale lemon green colour to create an spontaneously come up with through play. very clear that they shared common aromas. impression of freshness. But this is only a What are the rules of that blind tasting The wines were Sauvignons Blancs, but of trick of the trade. The wines smelled similar. game? Attendees are presented with three different origins. My colleagues suggested The Vin Jaune was just far more acidic on fights of three wines each. The three that fight to me. I was a bit weary of its the palate. One member even asked me wines in each fight share a common theme, simplicity, but one was quick to notice if it was better value than your average but one stands out for being particularly that the New Zealand wine, more forward paint strippers at B&Q, for it felt like a great different from the other two for a variety of and exuberantly perfumed and exotic in substitute. I guess that Vin Jaune was not reasons. No messing about. We get straight character than the more restrained Sancerre, his cup of tea. This fine wine works wonders to tasting and start guessing out loud. You had to be a New World wine. Others were with chicken and morels, do give it a go. have to overcome your fear of speaking not long to pick on the lower acidity in All wines are not the same, even those out but, after a few mouthfuls, you quickly the English wine, to which a proportion which look identical on paper. I hope that forget your inhibitions, throwing yourself of Bacchus had rounded the natural people left the room rich in that knowledge into the lively action with great fun. astringency of the varietal when grown in a and fuelled with courage to try different Finally, I reward everybody’s palate with a marginal climate like that of England. That things. Next January, the game is on again. final fight of red wines. These fruit bombs was a successful start and everybody was Come and join us. Blind tasting is nothing were all Grenache, Syrah blends from the enjoying the drink also. to be afraid of. It is a liberating experience. Rhône valley and Catalan country. The latter The second fight was more challenging. I hope that those who took part will spread has a Bordeaux twist with some ageing in I could have used the Tio Pepe that is so the word. new French oak and the addition of Cabernet popular in our bars, but I decided to buy in a The next tasting is gin, on 18 May

Members and guests find their way...

... through identical looking wines

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 15 STAFF

You will see him in the morning, perhaps filling the coffee machine in the New York Room, and then there is the green A WORD FROM baize – it can only be brushed in one direction THE SECRETARY STAFF PROFILE by Alex Bray

embership ELENO ‘LEN’ JARAMILLA reached an M all-time high during 2015 and for the first time a waiting list for membership applications was in action. New applicants are required to be proposed and seconded by existing members of two years’ standing. The annual invitation to renew membership came to a close at the end of February and the committee requires the front hall staff to be especially diligent on requiring members to show their membership card on arrival. Please support the club in this requirement irrespective of your being (or having) a familiar face. An addition to London’s busy calendar was the Lumiere art festival which took place over four days in January, part of which utilised St James’s Square. People thronged various parts of central London enjoying the numerous installations from artists who use light in their creations. I take this opportunity to announce the retirement at the end of March of maintenance supervisor Andres Trias after 20 years working for the club. A charming and dedicated colleague with an ever willing smile and positive approach, Andres beetled around the clubhouse and indeed the staff house turning his hand to the majority of daily maintenance. On behalf of his two colleagues in maintenance, we all wish Andres a very happy retirement. Very sadly, I report that former head porter Mhemed Cherrabi lost his year-long battle with pancreatic cancer diagnosed soon after he retired a year ago. Both Mhemed and the family were deeply touched by the many nown as Len, Eleno Jaramilla was found a job at the club two weeks after messages of support from members who born and brought up eight hours arriving. In the Philippines he had been all highlighted how much they appreciated K from Manila in the Phlippines. His a training officer in the army. As well as Mhemed’s welcome, care and engagement. parents were rice farmers. cleaning the club, he can be Also, our librarian of four years, Kath His generation of seven called upon to strip down a Posner, died in January three months after brothers and two sisters As well as cleaning machine gun if necessary. a diagnosis of cancer. Kath contributed are now scattered all over the club, he can be He arrives for work at the greatly to the management of the Library the world, but they still club at 5.30am and his cleaning and was highly regarded among her peers called upon to strip return to the Philippines duties include brushing the as a former chairman of the Association of “ down a machine gun every couple of years for green baize in the Billiard Room. Pall Mall Libraries. We will much miss Kath’s a reunion. The last family if necessary He finishes at 2pm. enthusiasm and skill. While Kath was poorly, get-together was in Len lives on the Fulham Jane Trodd held the fort as librarian and has December, the 50th birthday of one of Len’s Palace Road. He is married with three since accepted the part-time position. younger sisters. daughters, one of whom now lives in Canada. Iker Banales, our much regarded assistant Len has been in London for 14 years. He He has two grandchildren. manager in the Dining Room, left in December ” to work in Dorset. To replace Iker, we welcome

16 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 SECRETARY Jean Paul Machado to the team. JP has quickly club’s dress code. A positive steer to your photographs taken at events are displayed found his feet with us. guests on the pleasures of dressing up and you can print off your own copies We are delighted for apprentice chef for your club goes down well and ensures or contact our regular photographer for Joe Langridge who competed in the Salon no embarrassment. There are dress code professional prints. Follow the instructions in Culinaire at Hotel Olympia in the student exceptions for those heading to bedroom the members’ area. terrine display section. Joe secured a best in accommodation or going directly to the gym Finally: drama. Through the trustees of class award and a silver medal for his work. but I urge members and your guests proudly St James’s Square Garden there is in the The club is often described as a home away to cherish being the best attired people in St planning a one night only production on 13 from home. Perhaps substitute with the word James’s. One tip: avoid dressing in trousers July 2016 of Shakespeares’s Much Ado About mansion and add a sprinkling of staff and with visible seams, or pockets on the outside. Nothing set in 1918. you have the relaxed yet formal clubhouse They are considered unsuitable. The organisers wish to establish interest. for members and their guests to enjoy. Like In early January, the staff party took place Please let us know, so we can pass on a likely greeting friends at home, the etiquette of with thanks to the staff panel who made level of interest. Tickets are expected to be depositing a coat and belongings before the arrangements and to those committee £25 for an audience of up to 250. moving through to the reception rooms plays members who kindly gave up their time out on a daily basis and the often appreciated to serve behind the bar and to be jolly decorum that mobile phones are switched off hospitable. A good time was had, and was and sparingly provided for, is valued. Members much appreciated by the staff. are requested to help the club uphold these In order to help reduce administrative social points of order to enhance the club’s costs, members are encouraged to move sense of occasion. on to direct debit payment for both their The East India Room, adjacent to the front house account and subscription account hall, provides for a light snack and a glass and, in response to member requests, of wine during the day and is where easy monthly account statements are being issued chairs and newspapers provide members’ electronically. Please contact accounts for guests with a relaxed place to wait for their direct debit instruction forms and to receive host. Checking a mobile or reading a kindle paper statements if you prefer. is permitted. The room remains, however, The members’ area of the website foremost a social room where business provides useful information and has been papers and concerted work are not permitted. updated to include a new page presenting The chairman presents Andres Trias with his 20 Please be conscious of supporting the committee members. All the sport and social years service award upon his retirement East India Club Wine Order Form

ORDER THESE WINES FROM OUR WINE ORDER THESE WINES MERCHANT FOR HOME DELIVERY FROM THE ACCOUNTS OFFICE FOR PAYMENT Wine per case of 12 bottles Totals I enclose a cheque payable to Davy’s AND COLLECTION Club Champagne / £137.50 for 6 for £ FROM THE CLUB Club white / £129 OR Club white Burgundy / £151 I authorise you to debit my Wines and spirits per case of 12 bottles Mastercard/Visa/Maestro by Club claret £119 Club red (de Ciffre) / £138 Club white £119 Club claret / £129 £ Club red (de Ciffre) £128 Card no Club white Burgundy £141 Club Champagne (per case of 6) £132.50 GRAND TOTAL Club Cognac VSOP per 70cl bottle £43.50 Name Issue no Membership no Expiry date Address Wine gift box Three East India Club wines in Postcode presenta- tion Daytime telephone Please send your order with credit box – club claret, card details or cheque to: Special delivery instructions club white Davy’s and 161-165 Greenwich High Road, club white Greenwich, London, SE10 8JA Burgundy. Tel: 020 8858 6011 £41.25 Fax: 020 8853 3331

Email: [email protected] Not chargeable to account. Card with handling All prices include VAT Website: www.davy.co.uk fee, cash or cheque.

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 17 The club’s reciprocal arrangements with other clubs gets James’s Square. At lunch and dinner times, a boost. The Riviera Club in Los Angeles joins our list. And although jeans, shorts and trainers are

RECIPROCAL CLUBS RECIPROCAL forbidden, ties are not de rigeur. members have been enjoying other clubs all over the world All in all, I would recommend the Princeton Club to East India members as an ideal place from which to explore New York, Princeton Club, New York and benefit from its ideal transport links.

by Graham Holland

s part of a visit to the United States, and female graduates. my wife and I stayed at the Princeton It is situated in modern premises, and its A Club in New York in October, 2015. functions are shared on seven foors, three of There are four clubs with which the East which house the 49 well-appointed bedrooms. India Club has reciprocal arrangements in New All meals are eaten in a spacious dining room York. We tried to book our original choice of which has a separate bar for members who are the Metropolitan Club, but they were busy on on their own, or just want a drink. both our weekends with prestigious weddings. Menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner Rooms and dining facilities were at a premium, offer a varied selection of dishes which although we did call in for a drink in the third are well presented, and reasonably priced. foor bar. If members go, ask for Jean and his Beware the size of the portions. They are Sancerre. But that is another story! not for those on a diet! During Monday Our eventual choice fell on the Princeton to Friday, special themes are offered, Club due to its proximity to Grand Central depending on the season and if there is an Station, as we were travelling from NYC to American football match featuring one of visit friends and relatives. In addition, Fifth the universities being played. Although, Avenue and Times Square, and a plentiful personally I find American football an ideal supply of yellow cabs are just two blocks away. answer to insomnia, normally subdued The club was founded in 1866, and Princeton members take on an altogether draws its members from the alumni of different persona when one of their teams Princeton, Columbia, NYU and Williamsburg is featured! The club was founded in 1866 as the Princeton Universities. Membership is open to male The dress code is more relaxed than in St Alumni Association of New York

much enjoyed by the Front Porch Benchers, found in front of the club today. RAND CLUB who liked to sit and watch the passers-by. Despite the recent devastation, the The benches were destroyed by striking exterior of the present Club House has RESTORED miners in 1913, but were immediately changed very little over the years and is restored to their original form and can still be very much as it is was in 1904. he Rand Club in Johannesburg, closed in 2005 after a devastating T fire, is now firmly back on its feet, The whole club has been given a complete refurbishment following the fire. The central point of the club is a magnificent stained glass dome that covers the first foor surrounds. This dome was completely destroyed during the fire and the Rand Club committee decided to have it restored complete with new stained glass designs. The building as it stands today was completed in 1904. It has a metallic base structure, clad in concrete, that was fabricated in the United Kingdom before being dismantled and shipped to South Africa. Other innovations of the time include a central vacuum cleaning system that was installed in the club. You can still see the vacuum connection points throughout the building. The lift was installed in 1904 and even though the motor has changed, it is still in its original form. Up until the fire, the lift was still manually operated. Two new benches were presented to the club in 1907 by a Dr Schultze and these were The restored dome

18 EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 MR Dean Esq A Ketteringham Esq MD Plater Esq New members P Greenhalgh Esq DEW Knowlden Esq NR Quine Esq NEW MEMBERS The club welcomes the following: DC Hall Esq TL Kozlowski Esq BK Raven Esq Dr BW Allcock PL Boughton Esq T Hicks Esq DJ Law Esq CBW Reiner Esq JH Irving-Swift Esq AM Levett Esq GF Richards Esq AS Anderson Esq IK Brookes Esq U Jaeger Esq J Lloyd Esq GE Rutter Esq MP Andrews Esq RJ Brumwell Esq SPL Jarvis Esq K Maxfield Esq P Shah Esq HC Armstrong Esq PJ Chapman Esq JF Jawad Esq MJ Maxwell Esq MR Thomas Esq K Atkinson Esq RWJP Clark Esq Professor L Jiao MW Maynard Esq IMJ Turner Esq DR Barker Esq MJ Crannis Esq MD Joyce Esq R Muller Esq SJ Warren Esq M Birkbeck Esq OCdt TM Davison S Kesidis Esq NBH Payne Esq H Wilson Esq

King’s School, Bruton Royal Grammar School, Wells Cathedral School New J7 members Newcastle CB Barnett Esq RGB Matthews Esq The club welcomes the following: J Brooker Esq Ampleforth College Dulwich College King’s School, Canterbury JT Jobe Esq Westminster School AW Jalland Esq FRA Aznaran Esq DS Moore Esq R Janjuah Esq LM Perricone Esq B Bartsch Esq Sedbergh School T Franchi Esq King’s School, Rochester C Greene Esq ASA Mylne Esq Ardingly College M Policane Esq CJ Sharp Esq HS Halsall Esq WH Wood Esq SEC Cunningham Esq WJ Roberts Esq OH Robinson Esq CMR Sparkes Esq Lancing College ONL Thompson Esq Winchester College Bedford Modern School SJ Thompson Esq DA Escott Esq Sevenoaks School R Hyde Esq Dundee High School BS Graves Esq Loretto School G Rountree Esq GW Robertson Esq C Huang Esq Bedford School N Randic Esq Sherborne School PPB Sykes Esq D Brett Esq Eltham College CFR Croggon Esq M Holroyd Esq A Dhul Esq Malvern College TG Irvine Esq MJ Phillips Esq A Tawana Esq HM Sharp Esq Yarm School TO Mendel Esq HJ Sturley Esq V von Selchow Esq SA Melville Esq FHH Stisted Esq Epsom College HJ Williams Esq Berkhamsted School Manchester Grammar A Menon Esq School QJE Freeth Esq HD Edmonds Esq Shrewsbury School Eton College J Dempsey Esq Deceased Brighton College BJ Harrison Esq Marlborough College CT Robinson Esq It is with regret we announce FJJ Tilford Esq LATU Wetter-Sanchez Esq B Depla Esq the deaths of the following St Albans School members Canford School Fettes College Merchant Taylor’s School TPJ Kelly Esq TA Horner Esq WKP Best Esq AKW Ho Esq BJ Mort Esq AJC Cochrane Esq MBE MA JF McGill Esq DJO Lancaster Esq C Monighan Esq TJ Cunningham Esq R Li Esq O Savage Esq St Edmunds College, Caterham School ACR Naile Esq Hertford C Ehrnrooth Esq Ml Mitchell Esq SF Sheikh Esq Merchiston Castle School KB Lo Esq HH Grant-Dalton Esq DE Turner Esq HIC Buchan Esq GDW Honey Esq Forest School St Edward’s School, Oxford S Marquez Esq Charterhouse MJB Matson Esq Monmouth School P Mark Esq A Beck Esq JMA Phillips-Evans Esq MV McCloskey Esq I Ulyanov Esq O Galea Esq Haberdashers’Aske’sBoys’ Mrs MG Meldrum B Hui Esq D Kaye Esq New Hall School St Paul’s School Sir Paul Newall TDDL E Page Esq HTC Munt Esq AH Kyriacou Esq CAT Grainger Esq TJ O’Reilly Esq G Pierson Esq STA Treon Esq S Leung Esq EFA Pinnegar Esq Oakham School H Robb Esq LDH Speelmans Esq MA Czarnota Esq MM Silbert Esq Haileybury St Peter’s School AGP Blakesley Esq JW Fry Esq Mrs KM Stewart Murray Christ College Brecon DJ Boakes Esq Oldham Hulme Grammar School Sir Christopher Walford MA DCL PJ Pritz Esq SJ Davis Esq J Prince Esq Stonyhurst College GG McConachie Esq MJ Radley Esq Churcher’s College ZLJ Rauwald Esq Oundle School Gone away KD Singhal Esq We have lost contact with D Bolle-Jones Esq Stowe School the following, who may have Harrow School S Bond Esq C Barnes Esq Clifton College moved without giving the M Arzt-Jones Esq CH Bowkett Esq WH Barnes Esq HJW Mullan Esq JR Chia-Croft Esq TEB Mills Esq club their new addresses. If J Chiu Esq WFM Motion Esq you know where to contact Pocklington School them, please let the secretary’s Colfe’s School MR Gordon Esq MGW Owen Esq FMT Cole Esq office know or ask them to get GC Brookes Esq M Kendall Esq H Calder Esq in touch: KN Saujani Esq Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital Tonbridge School TGJ Chapman Esq JCF Stopford Esq EP Speirs Esq WT Brown Esq GJ Bowen-Ashwin Esq T Crawford Esq Mrs O De Corral Cranleigh School D Dingle Esq Hurstpierpoint College Radley College DRP Gibbons Esq O Hibbert Esq BW Nicholson Esq RS Fok Esq D Grimwood Esq R Glatter Esq CR Lumley Esq JA Grimwood Esq Dame Allan’s Schools Ipswich School SDM Horner Esq PR Hutton Esq S Brown Esq CJ Campbell Esq Reed’s School RJ Leroni Esq R Karling Esq NMV Taylor Esq J Monkhouse Esq J Ku Esq Denstone College VEG Parry Esq Kelly College P McNamara Esq T Goldsworthy Esq LRSS Cording Esq Repton School VG Palmer Esq CJ Atkinson Esq Truro School JLK Reich Esq Downside School King Edward’s School, RH Fletcher Esq C Donnithorne Esq V Bunys Esq Bath D Oppenheimer Esq A Style Esq E della Faille de Leverghem Esq PE Wainwright Esq FT Swinbank Esq Warwick School Dr SR Tang JC Heathcote Esq Dr C Terry-Engell Dr Challoner’s Grammar King Edward’s School, Royal Grammar School, School Whitley Guildford Welbeck College R Wess Esq M Turner Esq O Hall Esq E Creedy Esq T Scott Esq Mrs AW Woodhead

EAST & WEST – SPRING 2016 19 Reciprocal clubs

The East India welcomes members of BERMUDA PAKISTAN other clubs from all over the world, Tucker’s Town Mid-Ocean Club Karachi Sind Club who may use the club’s facilities as if Islamabad Islamabad Club CANADA they were their own. A reciprocal SRI LANKA arrangement has been made for Montreal ] James’s Club Colombo Colombo Club members to visit these clubs when a University Club Nuwara Eliya Hill Club card of introduction, obtainable from Toronto National Club SINGAPORE the club secretary, is required. These University Club of Toronto Singapore Tanglin Club clubs have all been chosen for their Albany Club suitability for our members but have SOUTH KOREA different facilities. Vancouver Terminal City Club Seoul ] Seoul Club Vancouver Club UK If you are going to visit any of them, Victoria, BC Union Club of Belfast ] Ulster Reform Club we suggest you telephone first and British Columbia Edinburgh New Club find out about them. Let us have your ] Union Club, St John Royal Scots Club views on your visits and tell us if you Glasgow Western Club EUROPE have found other clubs with whom we Henley on Thames Phyllis Court Club should enter into reciprocal Barcelona Círculo Ecuestre Liverpool ] Athenaeum Club ] arrangements or if one of these, in Bilbao Sociedad Bilbaina London City of London Club ] ]] Hurlingham Club your opinion, is no longer suitable. Brussels ] Cercle Royal Gaulois (membership card and photo ID is essential ) Dublin Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club Newcastle Northern Counties Club AFRICA Frankfurt Union International Club upon Tyne Perth Royal Perth Golfing Gothenburg ] Royal Bachelors’ Club SOUTH AFRICA Society & County and City Club Guernsey ] United Club Cape Town Cape Town Club USA Durban Durban Club The Hague ] Nieuwe of Literaire Societeit Albany, NY Fort Orange Club de Witte Berkeley, CA Berkeley City Club Johannesburg Country Club of Boston, MA Algonquin Club Johannesburg Hamburg ] Anglo-German Club Harvard Club Rand Club Helsinki ] Svenska Klubben Union Club Luxembourg ] Cercle Munster Bethesda, MD Kenwood Golf & Pietermaritzburg Victoria Country Club Country Club Madrid ] Financiero Génova Polokwane Pietersburg Club Cincinnati, OH Queen City Club ] Real Sociedad Española Port Elizabeth Port Elizabeth St George’s Club Chicago, IL Chicago Athletic Association Club de Campo Standard Club KENYA Union League Club Oporto Oporto Cricket and Lawn Detroit, IL Athletic Club Nairobi Muthaiga Country Club Tennis Club Los Angeles, CA Riviera Club Paris ] Cercle de l’Union Interalliée Mountain Lake, FL Mountain Lake ZIMBABWE Stockholm ] Sällskapet Osterville, MA Wianno Club Bulawayo Bulawayo Club (open May-Nov) Harare ] County Club HONG KONG Minneapolis, MN Minneapolis Club Harare Club Hong Kong ] Hong Kong Club New York, NY Princeton Club Lotos Club ] Hong Kong Cricket Club AUSTRALIA Metropolitan Club Union League Club INDIA Adelaide Adelaide Club Norfolk, VA Norfolk Yacht Naval, Military and Air Force Calcutta Tollygunge Club & Country Club Club of Adelaide Mumbai Royal Bombay Yacht Club Philadelphia, PA Union League Club ] Public Schools’ Club Golden Swan Phoenix, AZ University Club San Francisco, CA Marines’ Memorial Association Brisbane Queensland Club JAPAN University Club Tattersall’s Club Tokyo Tokyo American Club St Louis, MO Racquet Club Canberra Commonwealth Club Seattle, WA Rainier Club MIDDLE EAST Hobart Tasmanian Club Fort Worth, TX Fort Worth Club Bahrain ] British Club Richmond, VA Bull & Bear Club Launceston Launceston Club Washington DC Army & Navy Club Dubai ] Capital Club Melbourne Athenaeum Club Cosmos Club University Club Australian Club NEW ZEALAND Melbourne Club Auckland Northern Club ] Accommodation not available Royal Automobile Club ]] Christchurch Canterbury Club Sports facilities not available Newcastle Newcastle Club Christchurch Club Members are reminded that the production of a Perth ] Western Australian Club current membership card and photo ID is essential Weld Club Dunedin Dunedin Club when visiting the Hurlingham Club. Our reciprocal clubs Sydney Union, University & Napier Hawke’s Bay Club usually require an introductory card which may be Schools’ Club Wellington Wellington Club obtained from the secretary’s office.