October Club (Tory Party)
The October Club was a group of
Tory Members of Parliament, established after the 1710 general election.[1] The Club was active until approximately 1714. The group took its name from the strong ale they reportedly drank.[2]
The group has been characterized as having High Church tendencies.[2][1]
After the
Harley administration".[3] Linda Colley claims that the bulk of the membership were of Royalist ancestry.[4]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9787800660375.
- ^ a b Pat Rogers, โOctober Club (act. 1711โ1714)โ, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2010, accessed 2 August 2010.
- ^ H. T. Dickinson, Bolingbroke (London: Constable, 1970), p. 80.
- ^ Linda Colley, In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party, 1714-60 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 87.
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