[Printed pamphlet.] Rules of the Compatriots' Club.
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The Compatriots' Club, London, unofficial grouping of Conservative politicians 'to advance the ideal of a United British Empire', 1904-1914
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[London. Circa 1904.]
£280.00
SKU: 14632
4pp., 4to. Bifolium. On aged and worn paper, with slight damage caused by removal from an album. The first leaf of the document carries fifteen numbered rules; and the second leaf carries a 'List of Members', with Joseph Chamberlain as President; Viscount Milner as Chairman of Executive Committee, and Honorary Treasurer Viscount Ridley, and including the Duke of Bedford, Bonar Law, and the publisher John Murray. At the foot of the final page is a list of 'Foundation Members' of the 'South African Branch Compatriots' Club'. Scarce: Ewen Green, in his 'The Ideals of Empire' (Routledge, 1998)], states that 'no archive of the Club appears to have survived and there is no systematic record of its activities'.
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