Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… began at Charterhouse school and who joined the Club c.1704-5. 7 . Mentioned as ‘the Patriots that saved Britain’ by Horace Walpole, quoted in Memoirs of the Celebrated Persons Composing the Kit-Cat Club (London: Hurst, Robinson & co, 1821), p. … Wit, [the Kit-Cats] are fallen into Criticisms upon Policy; I might say AGENTS in it’. 10 A new Kit-Cat member, Robert Walpole (1676-1745), was one of the leaders of a Commons grouping called the ‘Kitlings’, and in June 1705 four Kit-Cats …
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