Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet (1873–1944), his grandson and a fraudulent diarist
Several of the Club's first members (from the 1890s) went on to become significant figures, including Edmund Trelawney Backhouse, Herbert George Flaxman Spurrell, and William Hamilton Fyfe.
Sir | Sir Walter Scott | baronet | Baronet | Edmund Burke | Edmund Spenser | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Edmund Hillary | Edmund Wilson | Sir Robert Peel | Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond | Edmund Husserl | Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex | Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster | Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | 2nd United States Congress | Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet | Michigan's 2nd congressional district | Edmund Muskie | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | 2nd | William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne | William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne | Sir Raylton Dixon | Sir Harold Hillier Gardens | Sir Fitzroy Maclean, 1st Baronet | Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland | Edmund Barton | Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet | George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham |
In 2002 Sir Derek Bibby, 2nd baronet, and great-great-grandson of the founder and past chairman and president of the firm, was aged 80 and terminally ill with leukemia.
Masson Fox was born into a Quaker family (although he was not related to the Quakers’ founder George Fox) and was a cousin of the fraudulent sinologist Sir Edmund Backhouse, 2nd Baronet.