The Geographical Club is a dining club closely associated with the Royal Geographical Society.
The President of the Society is also the President of the Club.
The origins of the Club lie in the Raleigh Club which was a dining club for explorers and travellers established in 1826. I have previously mentioned the Raleigh Club, as it was from the club's members that the first RGS committee was drawn after they started a Society for geography. Today the Club brings together a wide range of members drawn from Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society whose geographical backgrounds and interests span academia, teaching, exploration, travel, authorship, industry and commerce and the wider world.
Resident membership is limited to just 150.
Mill, H. (1930) The record of the Royal Geographical Society, 1830-1930. London: Royal Geographical Society.
The club provides support to the RGS through the annual Geographical Club Awards for post-graduate research and through the funding of conservation work in the Society’s archives.
The club meets for dinner at or near the RGS in London about eight or nine times a year.
As a member of Council, I have been enrolled into the Club for the next four years.
I look forward to attending a dinner and meeting other Club members.
Historical Notes - to be updated.
I'm interested in links between the GA and the RGS and there shall be a number of posts exploring specific connections.
Professor J A Steers, who was GA President in 1959 was a member of the Geographical Club for over 50 years it seems. This piece from 1979 describes a special dinner.
It also mentions another former GA President, who also served as RGS President: Professor Michael Wise.
Source
“The Society’s News.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 145, no. 3, 1979, pp. 515–19. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/633265. Accessed 8 June 2024.
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