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2 unusual facts about dining club


Dining club

Clubs may limit their membership to those who meet highly specific membership requirements, for example the Coningsby Club requires that one was a member of either OUCA or CUCA, the Conservative Associations at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge respectively.

The Twelve True Fishermen is the name of a fictional club, the title of a short story by G. K. Chesterton in which his detective Father Brown solves the riddle of the disappearance of the club's silver.


The 16' Club

The 16' Club is a dining club established for male members of St David's College (now St David's College, Trinity Saint David); also known as "The Sixteens", the "College Sixteen" or simply "16", it has been accused of being a secret society.


see also

Bullingdon

Bullingdon Club, a socially exclusive student dining club at Oxford University