Bath Club

[4] On the evening of March 17, 1899 the Bath Club was the venue of a popular exhibition of historical fencing styles by Captain Alfred Hutton and of Japanese jujutsu by Edward William Barton-Wright, thus becoming one of the first places where Asian martial arts had been exhibited in the Western world.

In 1924 a sporting member of the club, Gerald Robarts, travelled to the United States and unexpectedly won the American Squash Racquets Singles Championship.

Unusually for London clubs It had a ladies' section with an elegant drawing room for afternoon tea.

At the ground floor level there was a large dining room with paintings very like Canaletto's on the walls.

A consortium of members acquired control of the club and then proceeded to sell the lease.