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| National Liberal Club | |
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.jpg) View of the club from the Thames Embankment | |
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| Alternative names | NLC The National Liberal |
| General information | |
| Status | Private members' club |
| Architectural style | French Renaissance |
| Address | 1 Whitehall Place, London |
| Coordinates | 51°30′22″N 0°07′26″W / 51.5061°N 0.1238°W |
| Groundbreaking | 1884 |
| Completed | 1887 |
| Opened | 1887 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Alfred Waterhouse |
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The National Liberal Club (NLC) is a London private members' club, open to both men and women. It was established by William Ewart Gladstone in 1882 to provide club facilities for Liberal Party campaigners among the newly enlarged electorate following the Third Reform Act in 1884, and was envisioned as a more accessible version of a traditional London club.
The club's Italianate building on the Embankment of the river Thames is the second-largest club-house built in London. (It was the largest ever at the time, but was superseded by the later Royal Automobile Club building completed in 1911.) Designed by Alfred Waterhouse, it was completed in 1887.[1] Its facilities include a dining room, a bar, function rooms, a billiards room, a smoking room, a library and an outdoor riverside terrace. It is located at Whitehall Place, close to the Houses of Parliament, the Thames Embankment and Trafalgar Square.
- ^ Lejeune, Anthony, with Malcolm Lewis, The Gentlemen's Clubs of London (Bracken Books, 1979 reprinted 1984 and 1987) chapter on National Liberal Club.