Adelaide Club

An earlier club with similar aims and membership was the South Australian Club, founded in 1838, which purchased the Victoria Hotel from William Williams on Hindley Street for their premises.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71685296 |title=The South Australian Club |newspaper=The Southern Australian |volume=II |issue=51 |location=South Australia |date=22 May 1839 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}} (Scroll down - untitled section about 9/10ths of the way down.) Members included Sturt, Morphett and Fisher.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71615719 |title=Henry Calton versus South Australian Club |newspaper=The Southern Australian |volume=IV |issue=263 |location=South Australia |date=23 November 1841 |accessdate=3 November 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158922724 |title=Resident Magistrate's Court |newspaper=The Adelaide Observer |volume=III |issue=156 |location=South Australia |date=20 June 1846 |accessdate=3 November 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} Membership was by ballot; joining fee 10 gns., membership 2 gns. per annum.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245932953 |title=South Australia |newspaper=South Australian Record And Australasian And South African Chronicle |volume=3 |issue=55 |location=South Australia |date=11 July 1840 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}} It folded in 1843 after failing financially.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27444327 |title=Advertising |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=South Australia |date=12 April 1843 |accessdate=4 November 2018 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

The club's headquarters are at the club house at 165 North Terrace in the city centre. The club house was built in the same year as the club's establishment in 1864, after 14 prominent colonists, including John Baker, John Morphett and Arthur Blyth, raised £4000 for the building. The building was designed by one of the founding members, Edward Angus Hamilton, and the club adopted the grass tree as their crest.

The majority of the founding members were pastoralists, with a large number of businessmen, and there were many lawyers and government officials among them. Most were Anglicans.

In 1891 extensive additions were made to the rear. In 1980, the club house was listed on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate.{{cite AHD|6403|Adelaide Club, 165 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate |date=21 October 1980|accessdate=3 March 2019}} Facilities include a library, mixed accommodation for members and reciprocal club members, dining rooms, billiards room, function rooms and office facilities.Day, Chris. For whom the bell tolls. City Messenger, 21 February 2008.

The equivalent elite club for women, the Queen Adelaide Club, is located a short distance to the east along North Terrace.

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Members of the Adelaide Club have included:{{cite web|url=https://adelaidia.history.sa.gov.au/organisations/the-adelaide-club|first= Dirk |last=Van Dissel|title=The Adelaide Club|website=Adelaidia|publisher=History Trust of South Australia|quote=This entry was first published in The Wakefield companion to South Australian History edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly. Uploaded 25 August 2015.}}{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s79Qj5qvIDY |title=Liberals In Power: The near-decade of conservative rule in Australia |language=en |access-date=2024-04-14 |via=www.youtube.com}}

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• George Fife Angas
• John Howard Angas
• Henry Ayers
• John Baker
• Robert Barr Smith
• Arthur Blyth
• David Brookman
• Roy Burston
• George W. Cotton
• Darcy Rivers Warren Cowan
• Alexander Downer[http://newsstore.fairfax.com.au/apps/viewDocument.ac?docID=news940526_0049_7861 John Huxley and Maryann Stenberg, (26 May 1994), Meanwhile, The Adelaide Club Snores On, Sydney Morning Herald] Retrieved 23 February 2016]
• Lloyd Dumas
• Thomas Elder
• William Everard
• James Hurtle Fisher
• Michael Harbison
• Edward Hamilton
• Edward Angus Hamilton
• George Hamilton
• Walter Hughes
• Walter Watson Hughes
• Roland Ellis Jacobs
• Philip Levi
• G. C. Ligertwood
• Charles Mann
• George Mayo
• Ian McLachlan
• John Morphett
• Hugo Carl Emil Muecke
• Angas Parsons
• Christopher Pyne
• A. E. V. Richardson
• George Riddoch
• John Riddoch
• Arthur Rymill
• William John Sowden
• Samuel Tomkinson
• William Wigley

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• {{Official website|https://www.adelaide-club.asn.au}} Retrieved 15 January 2021.
• [https://public.adelaide-club.asn.au/virtual-tour/ Virtual Tour of the Club (requires Flash)]
• [https://public.adelaide-club.asn.au/about/ History]

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