Saint James's [ Cities ]
… Tavern, which welcomed, at different periods of its history, the meetings of the Brothers’ Club (created in 1711), the Society of Dilettanti (founded in 1734) and Johnson’s Club (created in 1764). Other gentlemen’s clubs were located in St James’s … pursuits, making it an extraordinarily vibrant centre of sociability. As George A. Selwyn would put it, ‘a small society governed England and gambled in St James’s Street’. 18 18 . George Selwyn, his Letters and his Life, ed. E. S. …
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