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<html> <head> <title>Athenaeum Club (London)</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr> <tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr> <tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 15px 15px 15px 15px;"><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0> Athenaeum Club (London) ORGANIZATION Official Website: <a href="http://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/">http://www.athenaeumclub.co.uk/</a> Location: <a href="/geo/881/000069674/" class=proflink>London, England</a> <table border=1 class="sortable bordered" id="sort_actors"> <tr><th>Name</th><th>Occupation</th><th>Birth</th><th>Death</th><th>Known for</th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/289/000099989/">Francis W. Aston</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-Sep-1877</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Nov-1945</tt></td> <td>Invented the mass spectograph</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/035/000031939/">Robert Browning</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-May-1812</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Dec-1889</tt></td> <td>Prominent Victorian poet and playwright</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/976/000084724/">Edward George Bulwer-Lytton</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1803</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1873</tt></td> <td>The Last Days of Pompeii</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/020/000084765/">Thomas Carlyle</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Dec-1795</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1881</tt></td> <td>The French Revolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/835/000031742/">Lewis Carroll</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Jan-1832</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Jan-1898</tt></td> <td>Alice in Wonderland</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/876/000104564/">Robert Chambers</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1802</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Mar-1871</tt></td> <td>Chambers's Book of Days</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/418/000025343/">Winston Churchill</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1874</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>24-Jan-1965</tt></td> <td>WWII Prime Minister of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/968/000024896/">Joseph Conrad</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Dec-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>3-Aug-1924</tt></td> <td>Heart of Darkness</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/569/000024497/">Charles Darwin</a></td> <td><center>Naturalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Feb-1809</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>19-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td>Proposed theory of evolution via natural selection</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/028/000083776/">Humphry Davy</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Dec-1778</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-May-1829</tt></td> <td>Leading early 19th century chemist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/767/000024695/">Charles Dickens</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Feb-1812</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Jun-1870</tt></td> <td>Oliver Twist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/739/000043610/">Arthur Conan Doyle</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-May-1859</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Jul-1930</tt></td> <td>Creator of Sherlock Holmes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/050/000031954/">Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></td> <td><center>Essayist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-May-1803</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1882</tt></td> <td>Essayist, wrote Nature</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/571/000024499/">Michael Faraday</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Sep-1791</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Aug-1867</tt></td> <td>Discovered electrical induction</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/462/000365364/">Felipe Fernández-Armesto</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Dec-1950</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/247/000098950/">Francis Galton</a></td> <td><center>Anthropologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Feb-1822</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>17-Jan-1911</tt></td> <td>Word Association Test</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/978/000084726/">Thomas Hardy</a></td> <td><center>Novelist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jun-1840</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jan-1928</tt></td> <td>Far from the Madding Crowd</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/986/000027905/">Seamus Heaney</a></td> <td><center>Poet</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Apr-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Aug-2013</tt></td> <td>The Spirit Level</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/582/000108258/">John R. Hicks</a></td> <td><center>Economist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Apr-1904</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1989</tt></td> <td>Value and Capital</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/570/000024498/">Thomas Henry Huxley</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>24-May-1825</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jun-1895</tt></td> <td>Debated Wilberforce over evolution</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/967/000024895/">Rudyard Kipling</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Dec-1865</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Jan-1936</tt></td> <td>The Jungle Book</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/249/000086988/">Charles Lyell</a></td> <td><center>Geologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>14-Nov-1797</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Feb-1875</tt></td> <td>Principles of Geology</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/422/000096134/">Thomas Babington Macaulay</a></td> <td><center>Historian</center></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Oct-1800</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Dec-1859</tt></td> <td>History of England</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/376/000104064/">George du Maurier</a></td> <td><center>Artist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Mar-1834</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Oct-1896</tt></td> <td>British caricaturist, Punch</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/430/000072214/">James Clerk Maxwell</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jun-1831</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Nov-1879</tt></td> <td>Maxwell's equations</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/009/000113667/">Peter Medawar</a></td> <td><center>Biologist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>28-Feb-1915</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1987</tt></td> <td>Acquired immunological tolerance</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/148/000030058/">James Mill</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Apr-1773</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jun-1836</tt></td> <td>History of India</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/147/000030057/">John Stuart Mill</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-May-1806</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-May-1873</tt></td> <td>Liberal philosopher and essayist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/865/000084613/">John Nash</a></td> <td><center>Architect</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1752</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1835</tt></td> <td>British Regency architect</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/504/000091231/">John Boyd Orr</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Sep-1880</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>25-Jun-1971</tt></td> <td>Nutritionist, Nobel Prize recipient</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/536/000096248/">Lord Palmerston</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Oct-1784</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Oct-1865</tt></td> <td>Twice Prime Minister of UK</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/920/000092644/">Robert Peel</a></td> <td><center>Head of State</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Feb-1788</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Jul-1850</tt></td> <td>U.K. Prime Minister</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/490/000099193/">Sir William Ramsay</a></td> <td><center>Chemist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>2-Oct-1852</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>23-Jul-1916</tt></td> <td>Discovered noble gases</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/497/000099200/">Lord Rayleigh</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>12-Nov-1842</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Jun-1919</tt></td> <td>Why the sky is blue</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/844/000060664/">Cecil Rhodes</a></td> <td><center>Business</center></td> <td align=right><tt>5-Jul-1853</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>26-Mar-1902</tt></td> <td>De Beers</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/339/000094057/">Ronald Ross</a></td> <td><center>Scientist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>13-May-1857</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>16-Sep-1932</tt></td> <td>Discovered malaria parasite in mosquitoes</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/977/000090707/">Joseph Rotblat</a></td> <td><center>Physicist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>4-Nov-1908</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Aug-2005</tt></td> <td>Nuclear physicist, anti-nuke activist</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/435/000357361/">Jimmy Savile</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>31-Oct-1926</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Oct-2011</tt></td> <td>Jim'll Fix It</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/897/000031804/">Sir Walter Scott</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Aug-1771</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>21-Sep-1832</tt></td> <td>Ivanhoe</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/013/000094728/">Herbert Spencer</a></td> <td><center>Philosopher</center></td> <td align=right><tt>27-Apr-1820</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>8-Dec-1903</tt></td> <td>Synthetic Philosophy</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/839/000031746/">Robert Louis Stevenson</a></td> 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