Former gentleman's club in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
The Yorick Club was a gentlemen's club in
Melbourne, Australia, whose membership consisted originally of men involved in the arts and sciences. It was founded in 1868 and continued in some form into the 1950s[1] and perhaps beyond.
It originally met at King's Cafe in
Collins Street, then established clubrooms in the same street above Haigh's tailor's shop,[5] and within a year its membership had grown to 100.[6] The club, which started as a lively, boisterous affair, developed into a respectable institution and expanded its criteria to admit men in the professions. For many years it had rooms at the Victoria Buildings, adjacent the City Club Hotel on the corner of Collins and
Swanston Street.[7]
In 1966 the club merged with the
Melbourne Savage Club, with which it had had a cordial rivalry for some years.
No connection with the
Yorick Club founded in
Lowell, Massachusetts in 1882, and which survived for nearly a century, has been found.
Bibliography
Thomas Carrington The Yorick Club: Its Origin and Development May 1868 to December 1910
Hugh McCrae My Father and My Father's Friends
References
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^William H. Wilde, Joy Hooton and Barry Andrews (eds.) The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 2nd edition 1994; Oxford University Press, Melbourne
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^"Current Topics". Geelong Advertiser. No. 7046. Victoria, Australia. 10 June 1869. p. 2. Retrieved 13 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Landmark". The Herald (Melbourne). No. 24, 055. Victoria, Australia. 2 July 1954. p. 12. Retrieved 24 December 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Academy of Music". The Express & Telegraph. Vol. XX, no. 5, 931. South Australia. 12 October 1883. p. 2. Retrieved 26 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Notes & Queries". The Register (Adelaide). Vol. XCI, no. 26, 494. South Australia. 17 July 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 26 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.