Founded in 1879 by cricketing friends in north London, at the end of their first season, Charles Hoyer Millar proposed forming a football club to keep the players together during the winter.

It still remains a Football Club, without the need for the word Rugby, and so is correctly Rosslyn Park FC, not RFC.

The club became the first English side to play rugby internationally when it beat Stade Français in Paris on 18 April 1892.

The clubhouse has two bars, which are named after two of the club's famous players – Andy Ripley and Alexander Obolensky.

The first floodlights for the main pitch were famously provided by the hell-raising actor Oliver Reed who was also a member of the club and occasional player.