Notable former members of the club include John le Carré, Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, Lord Michael Pratt (a former Secretary of the Grid), David Cameron (President of the Grid 1987–1988), Boris Johnson, George Osborne and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
[6] References have been made to the Gridiron Club in many works, including Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, Compton MacKenzie's Sinister Street and Ferdinand Mount's Cold Cream: My Early Life and Other Mistakes.
[8][9] Day-to-day management is handled by an undergraduate committee consisting of a President, Treasurer, Secretary and a small number of other members 'without portfolio'.
In addition, there is at least one Senior Member who supervises the running of the club and is invariably a don at the University of Oxford.
Past Senior Members of the Grid include the distinguished historians Jeremy Catto of Oriel College and Maurice Keen of Balliol.