Kit-Cat Club [ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… Image John James Baker, 'The Whig Junto', Tate, T15046, 1710. Image William Hogarth, The Kit Kat Club, Lotherton Hall, Leeds Museums and Galleries Image Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt, ‘Jacob Tonson I’, © … emerged out of several overlapping friendship groups, centred on Tonson. First Lord Somers, as already mentioned, then William Congreve (1670-1729) who was Tonson’s author and lodger by 1693, then John Vanbrugh (1664-1726) who met Congreve …
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