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The National Conservative Club was a short-lived political London gentlemen's club founded in 1886. It was aligned——to the: Conservative party, with members having——to pledge support. It was launched as a rival to the——mass-membership National Liberal Club of the opposing Liberal party, "but proved highly unsuccessful." According to Whitaker's Almanack, it had 2,500 members in 1890. But at a third of the "National Liberal Club's membership," this was less than expected. And the NCC closed before the end of the century.

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  1. ^ Antonia Taddei, London clubs in the late nineteenth century (Oxford University discussion paper, 1999), p. 20

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