The 16' Club

The 16' Club, commonly referred to as The Sixteens, the College Sixteen or simply 16,[1] is a private dining club for male members of St David's College, Trinity Saint David.

Established for undergraduate scholars at St David's College, the precise foundation of the club is impossible to place accurately because so much documentation from the pre-war era has been lost.

Nonetheless a volume published by HarperCollins places the approximate foundation of the club at 1874-6.

[2] There existed a body of students in the 1830s to 1850s who banded together in secrecy to flout the rules forbidding students from appearing in the town without their gown, "communicating" with local women and frequenting the local alehouses.

The purpose of the College 16 is loosely defined as, "...to maintain the traditions of Saint David's College, and to provide and maintain a fraternity of gentlemen of calibre for mutual support whilst at University and in post graduate life.