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BEEFSTEAK See also:CLUB , the name of several clubs formed in See also:London during the 18th and 19th centuries. The first seems to have been that founded in 1709 with See also:Richard See also:Estcourt, the actor, as steward. Of this the See also:chief wits and See also:great men of the nation were members and its badge was a gridiron. Its fame was, however, entirely eclipsed in 1735 when " The See also:Sublime Society of Steaks" was established by See also:John See also:Rich at Covent See also:Garden See also:theatre, of which he was then manager. It is said that See also:Lord See also:Peterborough supping one See also:night with Rich in his private See also:room, was so delighted with the See also:steak the latter grilled him that he suggested a repetition of the See also:meal the next See also:week. From this started the Club, the members of which delighted to See also:call themselves "The Steaks." Among them were See also:Hogarth, See also:Garrick, Wilkes, Bubb Doddington and many other celebrities. The See also:rendezvous was the theatre till the See also:fire in 18o8, when the club moved first to the See also:Bedford See also:Coffee See also:House, and the next See also:year to the Old See also:Lyceum. In 1785 the See also:prince of See also:Wales joined, and later his See also:brothers the See also:dukes of See also:Clarence and See also:Sussex became members. On the burning of the Lyceum, "The Steaks" met again in the Bedford Coffee House till 1838, when the New Lyceum was opened, and a large room there was allotted the club. These meetings were held till the club ceased to exist in 1867. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Sheridan founded a Beefsteak Club in See also:Dublin at the Theatre Royal in 1749, and of this Peg See also:Woffington was See also:president. The See also:modern Beefsteak Club was founded by J. L. See also:Toole, the actor, in 1876.
See J. See also:Timbs Clubs and Club See also:Life in London (1873); See also:Walter See also:Arnold, Life and See also:Death of the Sublime Society of Steaks (1871).
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