St James's Club

[1] The club's members continued to be largely diplomats and authors, and it became the home of the Dilettanti Society.

[6] According to Charles Dickens, Jr., writing in 1879:[7] St James's Club, 106, Piccadilly, W.—Ordinary members of this club are elected by ballot, but members of the corps diplomatique, of the English diplomatic service, and of the diplomatic establishment of the Foreign Office, may be admitted without ballot, under certain restrictions.

; and carefully considered reductions are made in the case of members of the English diplomatic service who are employed abroad.

The election is by ballot in committee; "six shall be a quorum, one black ball in nine, if repeated, and two above nine, shall exclude."

[9]During the Second World War, the club was briefly the home of Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

[11] In the decades after the Second World War, the popularity of gentlemen's clubs of London gradually fell into decline.