The October Club was a group of Tory Members of Parliament, established after the 1710 general election.
[2][1] After the Lord High Treasurer Robert Harley refused to set up an inquiry into the former administration's financial policies, on 5 February 1711 some Tories passed resolutions calling for inquires into suspected financial abuses.
[1] The group were, according to H. T. Dickinson, "a major threat to the Harley administration".
[3] Linda Colley claims that the bulk of the membership were of Royalist ancestry.
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