Issue number 90 December 2014 Silverware Sticky Sport Sacrifice Selfie 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 Scarf made up the East India £17 Club. £10 Table reservations should be made with the Front 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 Cufflinks AMERICAN BAR song from the 2009 St Monday to Friday 11.30am-11pm Enamelled cufflinks George’s Day dinner. £5 Saturday 11.30am-3pm with club crest, & 5.30pm-11pm chain or bar. £24.50 Sunday noon-4pm The Gentlemen’s & 6.30pm-10pm 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 Club blazers Open to members from 9am to midnight. Chocolate mint £295/£325 (navy) £325 (sports) Pass keys will not be issued after 11pm. creams £8 Club shield Club waistcoats GYMNASIUM £61.50 Open to members from 6am to 10pm. £160 Suitable attire must be worn. BEDROOM CHARGE 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*) Blazer buttons Single without facilities £72 (£45*) Double breasted. Golf tees Double or twin room for single occupancy £140 £45.00 Tin of 50 ‘personalised’ Double or twin room for double occupancy £156 Single breasted. East India golf tees. £7.75 St James’s Suite £259 £30.00 Reciprocal members & guests Single with bathroom £133 (£83*) V-necked jumpers Single with shower £117 (£73*) Golf umbrellas Lambswool V-necked navy and burgundy Double or twin room for single occupancy £164 Made in club jumpers also available. £46.50 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 – WINTER 2014 Remembering the First World War and looking forward to Club diary... commemorations for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Along with a full calendar of events, the club has a CHAIRMAN’S REPORT January 15 Wine tasting busy 2015 to look forward to February 5 Burns Night 26 Gourmet evening CHAIRMAN’S REPORT March have been visiting American Civil to guide our decisions. The committee 7 Napoleonic ball War battlefields in and around has decided it is worth continuing to put 10 Port tasting IWashington finishing up at resources into the case at this stage 13 Rugby lunch Gettysburg. It was interesting to see and there will be a further update in the 19 Library lecture & dinner the beginnings of the techniques of New Year. 20 Rugby lunch trench warfare, mining and artillery 2015 is just weeks away – the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. April The plans for the celebration of this 11 Varsity Boat Race The chairman event are now well advanced. The 16 Young members’ dinner at the house 23 St George’s Day dinner dinner re-enactment of the delivery of the Waterloo dispatch to the Prince Regent May will take place over the weekend of 13 Annual general meeting 18-21 June. There will be a service in 19 Rorke’s Drift dinner St Paul’s Cathedral on 18 June at which East India Club Members will have June an allocation of places. The dispatch 18 Waterloo service of remembrance will travel from Waterloo via Ghent, 21 Waterloo dinner Broadstairs and Canterbury to London, culminating in the presentation to a Bank holidays member of the royal family in the East Over bank holidays, accommodation India Club’s Waterloo Room, followed and continental breakfast are available by a members’ dinner on Sunday 21 but bars and catering are closed after bombardment at Petersburg which June. There are plans for a Regency fair breakfast on the Sunday of the bank became so familiar 50 years later. While to take place through the weekend in holiday weekend and through Monday. in Washington I stayed at the Cosmos St James’s Square and, again, special Christmas Club where guests receive a generous arrangements will be made for East India The club closes after lunch on Tuesday welcome and I enjoyed the comfort Club members. In additon to all of this, 23 December 2014 and re-opens at and style of a fine traditional club. The the club will hold a Napoleonic ball on 9am on Friday 2 January 2015. The intellectual power available there was 7 March (which more or less marks the cloakroom and day lockers will be evident from the large number of Nobel 100 days from Napoleon’s return from cleared of left items. The Royal Air and Pulitzer prize-winning members exile to his defeat at Waterloo). Force Club at 128 Piccadilly kindly offers whose pictures are on the walls. It promises to be an exciting year! Of their facilities to our members on dates Recently, we have enjoyed the Lord course we will not forget to celebrate when our Dining Room is closed. Please Mayor’s Lunch, this year made more Burns Night and I imagine that the St book in advance on 020 7399 1000. than usually special by Fiona Woolf CBE, George’s Day dinner might pay some and the House Dinner at which Michael homage to the heroes of the Peninsular Beloff QC entertained and Waterloo. In the members thoroughly with meantime, I know you some private insights into 2015 is just will join me and the the world of sport from weeks away – the committee in thanking the East & West a legal angle. Turning to bicentenary of management who have matters legal, I do not Waterloo. It promises kept us on course even in Editor: Charlie Jacoby propose to make a lengthy “ some difficult cross-winds to be an exciting 07850 195353 [email protected] update of ‘the case’ having and most particularly our year. Designer: Chris Haddon covered it fairly fully at the staff for their exceptional 01279 422219 [email protected] AGM and in the August contribution to the life Photography: Phil McCarthy. To download or edition of East & West. Although the of our club this year. I hope to see that order photography, login to the members’ area of criminal proceedings are now over and contributions to the staff fund reflect EastIndiaClub.com and follow the instructions the offender, having pleaded guilty the special effort this year and I thank Sub-editor: Cicely Drewe to two offences has been sentenced ”members in advance for this. 3 Printed by: Colour (ColourCubed.co.uk) to a term of imprisonment, it is not I wish everyone a very merry Published on behalf of The East India Club by finished as far as the club is concerned. Christmas season and happiness and Charlie Jacoby, c/o The East India Club www.charliejacoby.com We are continuing to pursue matters growing prosperity in 2015. Cover photo: Classic car weekend at the club in respect of the defalcation and are seeking opinion from a leading counsel Iain Wolsey, chairman EAST & WEST – WINTER 2014 3 NEWS A tour to Portugal and a summer of English cricket gave the Sports Shorts club’s XI a series of wonderful games. The final result is four wins, one draw and eight losses Flyfishing ith British fish now firmly out of sight for the winter, CLUB CRICKET W the major event is the flyfishing section annual dinner on 7 within the club. There were some very February, held at the club jointly with Mixed fortunes good performances. On the batting front Ed the Lawyers’ Fishing Club. Main speaker Case was the leading runs scorer with 216 to be announced. Cake being integral by Joshua Spink and Dan Hayward top scored with 93 not to the mayfly season, special guest is out while on tour to the Oporto Cricket and Richard Burr, a finalist from the BBC’s his season has been a mixed one Lawn Tennis Club.