[1] On 7 June 1909, at the Café Royal in London's Regent Street, more than seventy well-known hunting and shooting men met at the inaugural dinner of the Shikar Club.
[2] The Field magazine's June 1909 issue devoted a page and a half to a description of the event.
[clarification needed][4] The membership of the club included many high-ranking military men, such as Sir Claude Champion de Crespigny, described as "one of the hardest and pluckiest men in England… ready to box, ride, walk, run, shoot, fence, sail or swim with anyone over fifty on equal terms".
[5] The society once championed big-game hunters, including Abel Chapman, Alfred Pease, Hilary Hook, the Marquess of Valdueza, and Maurice Egerton.
Some members, such as Thomas Alexander Barns, H. A. Bryden, and C. W. L. Bulpett, published books and articles on hunting and exploring; while others, such as John Guille Millais, were artists or naturalists.