Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… reversed with the safe arrival of George I: only four of the Club’s thirty-nine members did not hold some Government or Court Office in late 1714, and the younger generation of Kit-Cats monopolised Georgian power for decades afterwards. 10 . … faction at Stowe. Modus Operandi The Kit-Cat was part of a re-centring of British culture and sociability away from the Court in the pre-Georgian period. Their patronage was usually by means of aristocratic officeholders dispensing …
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