Myrmidon Club

Founded in 1865, it is one of the handful of such clubs with an almost continuous existence from the second half of the 19th century.

[1] Describing Lord Randolph Churchill's membership of the Club towards the end of the 1860s, T.H.S.

Escott wrote: L. E. Jones in his memoir[3] described a dinner which (as a member of Balliol) he attended as a guest in his first term.

He drank 24 glasses of port, was rescued from the shrubbery and was carried to bed by his friends: The club takes its name from the legendary warriors commanded by Achilles, as described in Homer's Iliad.

The Club is thought to be the model for the Junta, the fictional club in Max Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson, of which the Duke of Dorset was for some time the sole member.