Gresham Club

In 1853, Charles Manby Smith located the Gresham Club as a stepping-stone in a successful Londoner's sequence of increasingly elite memberships.

Entrance fee, £21; subscription, £6 6s.The newly established club commissioned a clubhouse at 1 King William Street, on the corner of St. Swithin's Lane.

[5] The architect was Henry Flower, and the beginning of construction in 1844 was marked by a dinner at the Albion Tavern, at which Sir William Magnay, Lord Mayor of London, presided.

The style of the Club-house (H. Flower, architect) is Italian, from portions of two palaces in Venice.The site of the first clubhouse is now occupied by the main London office of N M Rothschild & Sons.

[10] In 1913, a Mr. L. Price, called 'the doyen of billiard stewards', achieved 60 years service with club, then housed in Gresham Place.

On 23 October 1992, the "Gresham Club (In Dissolution)" was given a listed building consent to remove 11 glass chandeliers on the ground, first, and second floors of 15 Abchurch Lane.

On 18 February 1993, "Abchur Flat Gibr", represented by Wright Hassall & Co., Solicitors, of Leamington Spa, was granted a certificate of lawful development for the use of the former club's premises at 15 Abchurch Lane, as "members licensed dining club for the purposes of dining drinking socialising and playing snooker".

[4] On the death of Peter Parker in 2002, Angela Knight, a former Economic Secretary to the Treasury, succeeded as the club's chairman.

[23] In the spring of 2018 the London Capital Club premises in Abchurch Lane were sold to the Royal Philatelic Society.