[2] Founding members included banking magnate J.P. Morgan as well as Nicholas Murray Butler, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Stuyvesant Fish, E.H. Harriman, Eugenius Harvey Outerbridge as well as the Rockefellers, Roosevelts, Satterlees, and the Van Rensselaers.
[2] In the 1940s, Clifford Phelps Morehouse, the editor of The Living Church, was a member of the club.
[2] Moreover, in 1942, Viscount Halifax, who served as the British Ambassador to the United States, spoke to the club.
[2] At the annual dinner in 1953, Bishop Horace Donegan called for an end to the rackets near the docks in New York City and criminal activities in Morningside Heights.
[3] A decade later, in 1962, Lord Fisher of Lambeth was the guest of honor at the annual time at The Pierre.
[2] Four years later, in 1966, the Bishop of London, Robert Stopford, was guest of honor at the annual dinner, which took place at the University Club of New York.