Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Jacob Tonson I’, © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 3230, 1717. Image John Faber Jr, after Hubert-François Gravelot, … It is also certain that one of its founders and its first chairman (or ‘secretary’) was the publisher-bookseller Jacob Tonson (1656-1736), who gathered his poets and playwrights together with wealthy noblemen – initially, the bibliophile … club, growing to consist of authors, peers, MPs, military figures and connoisseurs, the Kit-Cat never convened without Tonson’s presence. The Kit-Cat Club was unlike any previous London club in that it combined cultural, political and …
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