Cowdray Club

[8] In 1924 the club hosted a dinner for all eight women members of parliament, including the very first female MP, Lady Astor.

The third plaque was dedicated to the club's founder Annie Pearson, likely for her role in helping to establish the Royal College of Nursing, and possibly to honor her efforts as a philanthropist and social reformer who served as honorary treasurer for the Liberal Women's Suffrage Union, and was instrumental in making old age pensions available for certain English citizens.

[11] Lady Cowdray wished for the club to provide "a centre for intercourse and recreation and which should also furnish some of those creature comforts which we associate with the word 'home'".

Lady Cowdray often brought things for the Club from her own home "to place in positions where she felt they would be 'just right'", and she took pleasure in deciding on and choosing furnishings.

[11] Many of the club's papers are now held at the London Metropolitan Archives, including minutes of meetings, pamphlets, scrapbooks of news-clippings that mention the club, and guestbooks which feature the signatures of health ministers, the Queen of Sweden and many of the founding members of the Royal College of Nursing.