Bullingdon Club#Cultural references

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The Bullingdon Club was founded more than 200 years ago. Petre Mais claims it was founded in 1780 and was limited to 30 men,Stuart Petre Brodie Mais, The Story of Oxford, 1951; p. 70 and Viscount Long, who was a member in 1875, described it as "an old Oxford institution, with many good traditions".{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/memories00longuoft |title=Memories |access-date=8 May 2008 |author=Walter Long |year=1923 |author-link=Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long }} Originally it was a fox hunting and cricket club, and Thomas Assheton Smith the Younger is recorded as having batted for the Bullingdon against Marylebone Cricket Club in 1796.Aubery Noakes, Sportsmen in a Landscape, 1971; p.61 In 1805 cricket at Oxford University "was confined to the old Bullingdon Club, which was expensive and exclusive".{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofo00coxguoft |title=Recollections of Oxford |access-date=13 May 2008 |author=G.V. Cox |year=1870}} This foundational sporting purpose is attested to in the club's symbol. Harry Mount suggests that the name itself derives from this sporting background, proposing that the club is named after the Bullingdon Hundred, a past location of the annual Bullingdon Club point-to-point race.{{Cite web |last=Mount |first=Harry |date=20 April 2022 |title=Stop attacking the Bullingdon Club |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/stop-attacking-bullingdon-club/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220420133813/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/stop-attacking-bullingdon-club/ |archive-date=20 April 2022 |access-date=24 April 2022 |website=The Telegraph}} This origin of the club is marked by an annual breakfast at the Bullingdon point to point.{{Cite web |title=Bullingdon Club Antique Hunt Button . 20mm. Firmin's London.(SB 033) |url=https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225292934511 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221211202421/https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/225292934511?hash=item3474815d6f:g:~eEAAOSwD-1jla1h |archive-date=11 December 2022 |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=eBay}}

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The Wisden Cricketer reports that the Bullingdon is "ostensibly one of the two original Oxford University cricket teams but it actually used cricket merely as a respectable front for the mischievous, destructive or self-indulgent tendencies of its members".{{cite magazine |author = Mark Davies |magazine =The Wisden Cricketer |issue = May 2010 |title = Drinking and Politics }} By the late 19th century, the present emphasis on dining within the club began to emerge. Long attested that in 1875 "Bullingdon Club [cricket] matches were also of frequent occurrence, and many a good game was played there with visiting clubs. The Bullingdon Club dinners were the occasion of a great display of exuberant spirits, accompanied by a considerable consumption of the good things of life, which often made the drive back to Oxford an experience of exceptional nature".

A report of 1876 relates that "cricket there was secondary to the dinners, and the men were chiefly of an expensive class".James Pycroft in London Society, v.30, 1876 (James Hogg, Florence Marrayat ed.); p. 197 The New York Times told its readers in 1913 that "The Bullingdon represents the acme of exclusiveness at Oxford; it is the club of the sons of nobility, the sons of great wealth; its membership represents the 'young bloods' of the university".{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/06/01/100626266.pdf |title=Bullingdon Club Too Lively For Prince of Wales |date=1 June 1913 |periodical=The New York Times }} During the Second World War, an extension of the club was founded at Colditz Castle for imprisoned officers who had been members of the club while at Oxford.{{Cite web |last=Attar |first=Rob |date=21 November 2022 |title=Ben McIntyre on Colditz: "The reality of Colditz is much more interesting than the black-and-white moral fable" |url=https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/colditz-prisoners-escape-reality-conditions/ |access-date=11 December 2022 |website=History Extra}}

Former pupils of public schools such as Eton, Harrow, St. Paul's, Stowe, Radley, Oundle, Shrewsbury, Rugby and Winchester form the bulk of its membership.

In the 21st century the Bullingdon is primarily a dining club, although a vestige of the club's sporting links survives in its support of an annual point to point race. The Club President, known as the "General", presents the winner's cup, and the club members meet at the race for a champagne breakfast. The club also meets for an annual Club dinner. Guests may be invited to either of these events. There may also be smaller dinners during the year to mark the initiation of new members or in celebration of other occasions. The club often books private dining rooms under an assumed name, as most restaurateurs are cautious of the club's reputation as being the cause of considerable drunken damage during the course of their dinners.

In 2007, a photograph of the Bullingdon Club taken in 1987 was discovered. It made British headlines because two of the posing members, Boris Johnson and David Cameron, had gone on to careers in politics and at the time were, respectively, Conservative candidate for Mayor of London and Leader of the Conservative party.{{cite news|

url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1542634/Cameron-as-leader-of-the-Slightly-Silly-Party.html |location=London |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Duncan |last=Gardham |title=Cameron as leader of the Slightly Silly Party |date=14 February 2007}} The copyright owners have since declined to grant permission to use the picture.

Following negative media attention and the club's apparent depiction in the play Posh and its film adaptation The Riot Club—membership has supposedly dwindled. In 2016 it was claimed that only between four and six members were left, all of them postgraduates, and that no new undergraduate members joined the previous year.{{cite web |last1=Baker |first1=Paddy |title=Oxford's Bullingdon Club is facing extinction |url=https://thetab.com/uk/2016/09/12/oxfords-bullingdon-club-facing-extinction-18965 |website=The Tab |date=12 September 2016 |access-date=9 October 2018}} Many Oxford students cited an unwillingness to be associated with "ostentatious wealth celebration".{{cite news |last1=Wilgress |first1=Lydia |title=Bullingdon Club at Oxford University faces extinction because 'no one wants to join' |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/12/bullingdon-club-at-oxford-university-faces-extinction-because-no/ |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=12 September 2016 |access-date=9 October 2018}}

In June 2017, members of the club attempting to shoot their annual Club Photo on the steps of Christ Church were escorted out by college porters for not securing permission for the shoot. Nearby non-member students heckled the club as they left, with one even playing "Yakety Sax" (the theme song for The Benny Hill Show).{{cite web |last1=Harbron |first1=Lucy |title=The Bullingdon Club got kicked out of Christ Church trying to take their annual photo |url=https://thetab.com/uk/oxford/2017/06/29/the-bullingdon-club-got-kicked-out-of-christ-church-trying-to-take-their-annual-photo-28264 |website=The Tab |date=29 June 2017 |access-date=9 October 2018}}

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The club has always been noted for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and boisterous rituals, including the vandalisation of restaurants, public houses, and college rooms,{{cite news |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article721259.ece |title=How young Cameron wined and dined with the right sort |access-date=4 December 2007 |author=Patrick Foster |location=London |newspaper=The Times |date=28 January 2006}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} complemented by a tradition of on-the-spot payment for damage.{{cite web |url=http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2006wk0/Features/smashing_job_chaps:_exclusive_inside_look_at_bullingdon_club |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806051215/http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2006wk0/Features/smashing_job_chaps%3A_exclusive_inside_look_at_bullingdon_club |archive-date=6 August 2009 |title=Smashing job chaps: Exclusive inside look at Bullingdon club |author=The Oxford Student |author-link=The Oxford Student |date=12 January 2005 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} Its ostentatious displays of wealth attract controversy, since some former members have subsequently achieved high political positions, notably the former British Prime Minister David Cameron, former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne and the former Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

A number of episodes over many decades have provided anecdotal evidence of the club's behaviour. Infamously on 12 May 1894, after dinner, Bullingdon members smashed almost all the glass of the lights and 468 windows in Peckwater Quad of Christ Church, along with the blinds and doors of the building, and again on 20 February 1927.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/05/13/106904777.pdf |title=Condensed Cablegrams |date=13 May 1894 |work=The New York Times }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OfjghCa3CnMC&q=bullingdon+peckwater&pg=RA3-PA227 |title=The History of the University of Oxford |author=Trevor Henry Aston |year=1984|isbn=978-0-19-951017-7 }}{{cite book|author=J. G. Sinclair|title=Portrait of Oxford|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kxwXUk-JNAAC&pg=PA111|date=March 2007|publisher=Read Books|isbn=978-1-4067-4585-6|pages=111–}} As a result of such events, the club was banned from convening within {{convert|15|miles}} of Oxford.

While still Prince of Wales, Edward VIII had a certain amount of difficulty in getting his parents' permission to join the Bullingdon on account of the club's reputation. He eventually obtained it only on the understanding that he never join in what was then known as a "Bullingdon blind", a euphemistic phrase for an evening of drink and song. On hearing of his eventual attendance at one such evening, Queen Mary sent him a telegram requesting that he remove his name from the club.{{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1913/05/28/100269282.pdf |title=Wales in Trouble Over Club Supper |date=28 May 1913 |periodical=The New York Times }}

Andrew Gimson, biographer of Boris Johnson, reported about the club in the 1980s: "I don't think an evening would have ended without a restaurant being trashed and being paid for in full, very often in cash. [...] A night in the cells would be regarded as being par for a Buller man and so would debagging anyone who really attracted the irritation of the Buller men."{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6409757.stm |title=Cameron student photo is banned|author=BBC News|author-link=BBC News|date=2 March 2007 |access-date=31 December 2009 |work=BBC News}}

In December 2005, Bullingdon Club members smashed 17 bottles of wine, "every piece of crockery," and a window at the 15th-century White Hart pub in Fyfield, Oxfordshire.{{Cite web |title = Drinks club 'ritual' wrecks pub |work = BBC News |date = 3 December 2004 |access-date = 22 September 2015 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/4066329.stm }} The dinner was organised by Alexander Fellowes, son of Baron Fellowes and nephew to Diana, Princess of Wales; four members of the party were arrested.{{cite journal |url=http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2005wk0/News/bullingdon_brawl_ringleader_is_princess_diana's_nephew |title=Bullingdon brawl ringleader is Princess Diana's nephew |author=Roger Waite |journal=The Oxford Student |date=13 January 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513043105/http://www.oxfordstudent.com/ht2005wk0/news/bullingdon_brawl_ringleader_is_princess_diana%27s_nephew |archive-date=13 May 2008 |df=dmy }} A further dinner was reported in 2010 after damage to Hartwell House, a country house in Buckinghamshire.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/georgeosborne/7849914/George-Osbornes-age-of-austerity-starts-with-a-bang-for-the-Bullingdon-Club.html |title=George Osborne's age of austerity starts with a bang for the Bullingdon Club |author= Tim Walker |periodical=The Daily Telegraph |date=24 June 2010 |location=London}}

The Bullingdon has been mentioned in the debates of the House of Commons in order to draw attention to excessive behaviour across the British class spectrum,{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo011015/debtext/11015-31.htm |title=Football (Disorder) (Amendment) Bill |author=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 1}} and to embarrass prominent Conservative Party politicians who are former members of the Bullingdon.{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080218/debtext/80218-0001.htm |title=Pensions |author=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 1}}{{cite web |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmhansrd/cm080225/debtext/80225-0003.htm |title=Topical Questions |author=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 2}} Johnson has since tried to distance himself from the club, calling it "a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness."{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21836935|title=Boris Johnson 'would like to be PM'|work=BBC News|date=19 March 2013|access-date=19 March 2013}}

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The club's colours are sky blue and ivory. Members dress for their annual lllClub dinner in bespoke tailored tailcoats in dark navy blue, with a matching velvet collar, offset with ivory silk lapel revers, brass monogrammed buttons, a mustard waistcoat, and a sky blue bow tie. There is also a Club tie, which is sky blue striped with ivory. These are all provided by the Oxford branch of court tailors Ede and Ravenscroft. In 2007 the full uniform was estimated to cost £3,500.{{Cite web|last=Pimlott|first=Tom Beardsworth, William|date=12 April 2013 |title=Buller, buller, buller! Just who is the modern Bullingdon Club boy?|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/buller-buller-buller-just-who-is-the-modern-bullingdon-club-boy-8568320.html|access-date=7 April 2021 |website=www.standard.co.uk}} Traditionally when they played cricket, members "were identified by a ribbon of blue and white on their straw hats, and by stripes of the same colours down their flannel trousers".Michael MacDonagh, The English king: a study of the monarchy and the royal family, 1929; p. 94

The Bullingdon is not currently registered with the University of Oxford,{{cite news |work=Oxford University Gazette |issue=Supplement (2) to No. 4876 |page=880 |url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2008-9/supps/2_4876.pdf |title=Oration by the demitting Proctors and Assessor |access-date=5 November 2009 |quote=I received help from Thames Valley Police on two occasions. My first case (in my first week in office) was the Bullingdon Club — I think the Clerk to the Proctors gave it to me as a test. I received a report that some students had taken habitually to the drunken braying of 'We are the Bullingdon' at 3 a.m. from a house not far from the Phoenix Cinema. But the transcript of what they called the wife of the neighbour who went to ask them to be quiet was written in language that is not usually printed. Their college was identified, but the Bullingdon Club turns out not to be a registered University society. Nor was the abuse uttered on University premises. So after conferring with the Proctors' Officers, I thought that an ASBO might concentrate the minds of those concerned. I referred the matter to the Police who did mention the word ASBO before awarding the members of the Club an ABC — an Anti Social Behaviour Contract that would magically and automatically turn into an ASBO if provoked within six months. So I am pleased to say that, except perhaps at the highest level of national politics, the Bullingdon Club this year has been quiescent. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609220641/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/2008-9/supps/2_4876.pdf |archive-date=9 June 2011 |url-status=dead }} 25 March 2009 but members are drawn from among the members of the University. On several occasions in the past, when the club was registered, the University proctors suspended it on account of the rowdiness of members' activities, including suspensions in 1927 and 1956.{{cite web |url=http://www.lordbath.co.uk/42_1.htm |title=Career and activities: settling into my undergraduate identity |access-date=4 December 2007 |author=7th Marquess of Bath |year=1999 |quote=...at the start of the Trinity term I was elected into the Bullingdon... |author-link=Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20001031024038/http://www.lordbath.co.uk/42_1.htm |archive-date=31 October 2000 }} John Betjeman wrote in 1938 that "quite often the Club is suspended for some years after each meeting".John Betjeman, An Oxford University Chest, 1938; p. 30 While under suspension, the club has met in relative secrecy.

The club was active in Oxford in 2008/9, although not registered with the University. In his retirement speech as proctor, Professor of Geology Donald Fraser noted an incident which, not being on University premises, was outside their jurisdiction: "some students had taken habitually to the drunken braying of 'We are the Bullingdon' at 3 a.m. from a house not far from the Phoenix Cinema. But the transcript of what they called the wife of the neighbour who went to ask them to be quiet was written in language that is not usually printed".

In October 2018, the Oxford University Conservative Association (OUCA) banned members of the Bullingdon Club from holding office within the Association. OUCA president Ben Etty stated that the club's "values and activities had no place in the modern Conservative Party'".{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45835126|title=Oxford Tories ban Bullingdon Club members|date=12 October 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=12 October 2018}} This decision was overturned several weeks later "on a constitutional technicality", although Etty was confident that "that ban will be re-proposed very soon".{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45900555|title=Tory Bullingdon Club ban overturned|date=2018-10-18|work=BBC News|access-date=19 October 2018}} The ban was later re-implemented on appeal to OUCA's Senior Member and remains in effect.{{Cite web|url=https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2018/11/01/tories-revolt-as-ouca-president-pushes-through-bullingdon-club-ban/|title=Tories revolt as OUCA President pushes through Bullingdon Club ban|last=Gould|first=Tom|date=1 November 2018|website=The Oxford Student|access-date=27 February 2019}}

A number of the club's annual photographs have emerged over the years, with each giving insight into its past members.

A photograph taken in 1987 depicting David Cameron and Boris Johnson among other members of the club, including Jonathan Ford of the Financial Times,{{Cite web|title = Cameron at the Centre of the Bullingdon Club|url = https://byline.com/2015/05/06/cameron-at-the-centre-of-the-bullingdon-club/|access-date = 10 May 2015|first = Peter|last = Jukes|date = 6 May 2015}} and retail CEO Sebastian James is the best-known example. In an interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, David Cameron said that the photograph was an embarrassment.{{Cite news |title = General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down – including new picture of David Cameron in his finery |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-photographic-history-of-bullingdon-club-tracked-down--including-new-picture-of-david-cameron-in-his-finery-10224679.html |access-date = 10 May 2015 |location=London |work= The Independent |first1=Nick |last1=Mutch |first2=Jack |last2=Myers |first3=Adam |last3=Lusher |first4=Jonathan |last4=Owen |date=5 May 2015 }} BBC Two's Newsnight commissioned a painting to recreate the photograph because the photographers who own the copyright objected to its being published on commercial grounds.{{Cite web|title = ConservativeHome's ToryDiary: Embarrassing Cameron photo withdrawn from public use|url = http://conservativehome.blogs.com/torydiary/2007/03/embarassing_cam.html|website = conservativehome.blogs.com|access-date = 10 May 2015}}

A photograph taken in 1988, also depicting the future British Prime Minister David Cameron, this time as Club President and standing in the centre of the group, later emerged. It was found by the student newspaper, VERSA, among over a dozen other photographs of the club dated between 1950 and 2010 hanging on the wall of the tailor that is believed to have made the members' suits, and led to a number of other past members being identified. Gillman and Soame, the photographers who own the copyright to the image, withdrew permission for it to be reproduced. VERSA, which discovered the photographs, commissioned sketches to reproduce the scenes depicted in them.{{Cite web|title = VERSA {{!}} Revealed: new Bullingdon photos featuring high spirits, high society, and one very high-up politician...|url = http://versanews.co.uk/2015/05/05/new-bullingdon-photographs/|access-date = 10 May 2015}}

A photograph of the club taken in 1992 depicted George Osborne, Nathaniel Rothschild, David Cameron's cousin Harry Mount and Ocado founder Jason Gissing.{{Cite news |title = Has a Bullingdon Club picture been doctored? |url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/oct/26/george-osborne-nat-rothschild |newspaper =The Guardian |date = 26 October 2008 |access-date = 10 May 2015 |first = Steve |last = Busfield}}

In 2013, a new photograph emerged of club members flying by private jet to a hunting expedition in South Africa. Pictured in the photograph are Michael Marks, Cassius Clay, Nicholas Green, Timothy Aldersly, Charles Clegg and George Farmer – the son of the former treasurer of the Conservative Party Michael Farmer, Baron Farmer.{{Cite web |last= |date=8 September 2013 |title=PICTURED: The Bullingdon Club, alive and awful |url=https://thetab.com/uk/oxford/2013/09/09/pictured-the-bullingdon-club-alive-and-awful-10781 |access-date=11 April 2023 |website=The Tab}}

David Cameron's and Boris Johnson's period in the Bullingdon Club was examined in the UK Channel 4 docu-drama When Boris Met Dave, broadcast on 7 October 2009 on More 4. An Observer Magazine article in October 2011 reviewed George Osborne's membership of the club.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/01/george-osborne-bullingdon-club-government |author=Elizabeth Day |date=1 October 2011 |title=George Osborne: from the Bullingdon club to the heart of government |newspaper=The Observer: Observer Magazine |access-date=1 October 2011 |location=London}}

The Bullingdon is satirised as 'the Bollinger Club' (Bollinger being a notable brand of champagne) in Evelyn Waugh's novel Decline and Fall (1928), where it has a pivotal role in the plot: the mild-mannered hero is blamed for the Bollinger Club's destructive rampage through his college and is sent down. Tom Driberg claimed that the description of the Bollinger Club was a "mild account of the night of any Bullingdon Club dinner in Christ Church. Such a profusion of glass I never saw until the height of the Blitz. On such nights, any undergraduate who was believed to have 'artistic' talents was an automatic target."Carpenter, Humphrey. The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and his Friends, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989.

Waugh mentions the Bullingdon by name in Brideshead Revisited.Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, "Et in Arcadia ego": Chapter Two; Chapman and Hall, 1945. In talking to Charles Ryder, Anthony Blanche relates that the Bullingdon attempted to "put him in Mercury" in Tom Quad one evening, Mercury being a large fountain in the centre of the Quad. Blanche describes the members in their tails as looking "like a lot of most disorderly footmen", and goes on to say: "Do you know, I went round to call on Sebastian next day? I thought the tale of my evening's adventures might amuse him." This could indicate that Sebastian was not a member of the Bullingdon, although in the 1981 TV adaptation, Lord Sebastian Flyte vomits through the window of Charles Ryder's college room while wearing the famous Bullingdon tails.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9lAtt3lws YouTube – Brideshead Revisited – Lord Sebastian is sick] at youtube.com The 2008 film adaptation of Brideshead Revisited likewise clothes Flyte in the club tails during this scene, as his fellow revellers chant "Buller, Buller, Buller!" behind him.

A fictional Oxford dining society inspired by clubs like the Bullingdon forms the basis of the play Posh by Laura Wade, staged in April 2010 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Membership of the club while still a student is depicted in the play as giving a student admission to a secret and corrupt network of influence within the Tory Party later in life.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/7597617/Posh-Royal-Court-review.html |title=Posh: Royal Court, review |author=The Daily Telegraph |author-link=The Daily Telegraph |date=16 April 2010 |location=London}} The play was later adapted into the 2014 film The Riot Club.

The TV series Peep Show referenced the Bullingdon Club in the first episode of its final series.{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/nov/10/one-final-excruciating-hurrah-for-peep-show|title=One final excruciating hurrah for Peep Show|date=10 November 2015|website=the Guardian}}

The 2022 Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal, based on a novel of the same name by Sarah Vaughan, used the Bullingdon Club as inspiration for the fictional club featured within the story. The fictional club is known as 'the Libertines'.

In one episode of Frasier, characters Frasier Crane and Alan Cornwall talk about how they tried to join the Bullingdon Club during their Oxford days, but their plans were cut short when after getting blackout drunk, they snuck into the library and tried to steal Oscar Wilde's walking stick, only to end up getting tackled by a group of librarians and forever banned from the club."The Founders' Society". Frasier. Season 1. Episode 5. 2 November 2023. Paramount+.

Past members of the club include:

• Frederick VII of Denmark (1808–1863)
• Edward VII of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1841–1910)
• Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany (1853–1884)Charlotte Zeepvat, Prince Leopold: the untold story of Queen Victoria's youngest son, 1998; p. 101.
• Rama VI, King of Siam (1881–1925)Rong Syamananda, A history of Thailand, 1986; p. 146.
• Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (1893–1976)Neil Balfour and Sally Mackay, Paul of Yugoslavia: Britain's maligned friend, 1980; p. 28.
• Edward VIII of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas (1894–1972)
• Frederik IX of Denmark (1899–1972)

• Charles Douglas-Home, 12th Earl of Home (1834–1918), Lord Lieutenant of Lanarkshire (1890–1915) and Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire (1879–1880)
• Henry Chaplin, 1st Viscount Chaplin (1840–1923)
• Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery,(1847-1929), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1894-95) {{cite book|author=Nicholas Freeman|title=Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-five|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oBs22N9l61kC&pg=PA55|year=2011|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-4056-0|pages=55–}}
• Walter Long, 1st Viscount Long (1854–1924)
• William Grenfell, 1st Baron Desborough (1855–1945)
• George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925)
• George Gibbs, 1st Baron Wraxall (1873–1931)James Miller, Fertile Fortune: The Story of Tyntesfield, 2006; p. 142
• Prince Felix Yussupov (1887–1967){{cite news |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/01/14/102309358.pdf |date=14 January 1917 |title=Prince Yusupoff Defended in Rasputin Case |work=The New York Times }}
• Prince Serge Obolensky (1890–1978){{cite book|author=Serge Obolensky|title=One Man in His Time: The Memoirs of Serge Obolensky|url=https://archive.org/details/onemaninhistime0000unse|url-access=registration|year=1958|publisher=McDowell, Obolensky|pages=[https://archive.org/details/onemaninhistime0000unse/page/110 110], 116}}
• Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 8th Duke of Buccleuch (1894–1973)Serge Obolensky, One man in his time: the memoirs of Serge Obolensky, 1958; p. 86
• Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905–2001)The Independent. "[http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article35480.ece The Earl of Longford] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071123110441/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article35480.ece |date=23 November 2007 }}", 6 August 2001.
• Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936–2024), British peer, investment banker and member of the Rothschild banking family.{{cite web |last1=Mutch, Jack Myers, Adam Lusher |first1=Nick |last2=Myers |first2=Jack |last3=Lusher |first3=Adam |title=General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down - including new picture of David Cameron in his finery |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-photographic-history-of-bullingdon-club-tracked-down-including-new-picture-of-david-cameron-in-his-finery-10224679.html |website=in |access-date=13 May 2023 |date=6 May 2015}}
• Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (1915–2014){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11319253/The-Duke-of-Wellington-obituary.html |title= The Duke of Wellington – obituary |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=31 December 2014 |access-date=1 March 2014 |location=London}}
• John Scott, 9th Duke of Buccleuch (1923–2007)[http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2934310.ece Obituary] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000626/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2934310.ece |date=1 October 2007 }}, The Independent, 6 September 2007
• Lord Montagu of Beaulieu (1926-2015){{cite web|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/13639388.A_champion_of_British_heritage__the_life_and_times_of_Beaulieu_s_Lord_Montagu/ |title=A champion of British heritage: the life and times of Beaulieu's Lord Montagu (From Bournemouth Echo) |date=2 September 2015 |publisher=Bournemouthecho.co.uk |access-date=2 September 2015}}
• Christopher James, 5th Baron Northbourne (1926–2019)
• Timothy Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley (1928–2008){{cite news |url = https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/11/religion.liberaldemocrats |title=The Rev Lord Beaumont of Whitley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=11 April 2008|location=London|first=Andrew|last=Roth}}
• Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (1932–2020)
• Peter Palumbo, Baron Palumbo (1935–)
• Michael Kerr, 13th Marquess of Lothian (1945–2024), Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party (2001–2005) and Chairman of the Conservative Party (1998–2001){{cite web|url=http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/841/bullcr.jpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102234343/http://imageshack.us/scaled/landing/841/bullcr.jpg |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-11-02 |title=Bullingdon Club 1966 |access-date=2016-03-28}}
• Maharaja Gaj Singh Ji of Jodhpur (1948–)
• Richard Scott, 10th Duke of Buccleuch (1954–)
• Count Gottfried von Bismarck (1962–2007){{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705224231/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/04/db0402.xml |url-status=dead |archive-date=5 July 2007 |title= Count Gottfried von Bismarck Obituary |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=5 July 2007 |access-date=5 July 2007 |location=London}}
• Shivraj Singh of Jodhpur (1975–)
• Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington (1978–)
• Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (1988–){{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/hugh-grosvenor-is-the-new-duke-of-westminster---but-who-are-brit/lord-downpatrick/|title=Hugh Grosvenor is the new Duke of Westminster - but who are Britain's other most eligible bachelor aristocrats?|date=12 August 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph}}

• Thomas Assheton Smith the Younger (1776–1858), High Sheriff of Wiltshire (1838) and MP (1821–1831, 1832–1837)
• Sir Frederick Johnstone, 8th Baronet (1841–1913), MP (1874–1885){{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/gaymonarchthelif000289mbp/gaymonarchthelif000289mbp_djvu.txt |title=Gay Monarch: The Life and Pleasures of Edward VII |year=1956 |author=Virginia Cowles |publisher=Harper & Brothers. Publishers }}
• Lord Randolph Churchill (1849–1895),Frank Harris, My Life and Loves, 1922–27; p. 483 Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886), father of Sir Winston Churchill
• Cecil Rhodes (1853–1902), Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (1890–1896), endower of the Rhodes Scholarship
• Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (1862–1933), Foreign Secretary (1905–1916)
• Thomas Agar-Robartes (1880–1915), MP (1906, 1908–1915){{cite web|url=http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock/history/view-page/item525598/|title=Tommy Agar-Robartes: a very British gentleman – National Trust|work=nationaltrust.org.uk|access-date=8 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509001940/http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock/history/view-page/item525598/|archive-date=9 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}
• Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881–1959), Chancellor of the University of Oxford (1933–1959), Ambassador to the United States (1940–1946) Foreign Secretary (1938–1940), Leader of the House of Lords (1935–1938, 1940), Secretary of State for War (1935) and 20th Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1926–1931)
• Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet (1888–1939), MP (1912–1939)
• Sir Hugh Munro-Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (1903–1985), MP (1924–1929, 1945–1970)
• John Profumo, CBE (1915–2006), Secretary of State for War (1960–1963)
• Alan Clark (1928–1999), Minister for Defence Procurement (1989–1992)
• Ewen Alexander Nicholas Fergusson (1962–), member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/camerons-cronies-the-bullingdon-clubs-class-of-87-436192.html |location=London |newspaper=The Independent |title=Cameron's cronies: The Bullingdon Club's class of '87 |date=13 February 2007}}
• Tim Rathbone (1933–2002), MP (1974–1997)
• David Faber (1961–), headmaster of Summer Fields School (2009–), MP (1992–2001) and grandson of Harold Macmillan{{cite web|url=http://dafjones.thirdlight.com/viewpicture.tlx?pubgsearchid=1210900997&pictureid=1129578|title=Dafydd Jones|date=27 June 1984|publisher=Dafjones.thirdlight.com|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308053631/http://dafjones.thirdlight.com/viewpicture.tlx?pubgsearchid=1210900997&pictureid=1129578|archive-date=8 March 2012|access-date=13 September 2013|df=dmy-all}}
• Nick Hurd (1962–), government minister (2010–2019){{cite web |url=http://dafjones.thirdlight.com/viewpicture.tlx?advpubsearchid=1210890999&pictureid=1143554 |title=Dafydd Jones |publisher=Dafjones.thirdlight.com |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308053640/http://dafjones.thirdlight.com/viewpicture.tlx?advpubsearchid=1210890999&pictureid=1143554 |archive-date=8 March 2012 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}
• Radosław Sikorski (1963–), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2007–2014, 2023–){{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article7071207.ece|title=World Agenda: Is Radoslaw Sikorski the new face of Polish politics?|newspaper=The Times|date=22 March 2010|access-date=18 April 2010 |location=London |first=Roger |last=Boyes}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• Boris Johnson (1964–), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019–2022), Foreign Secretary (2016–2018) and Mayor of London (2008–2016)
• David Cameron (1966–), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010–2016){{Cite news |title = Cameron 'desperately embarrassed' over Bullingdon Club days |last = Sparrow |first = Andrew |newspaper =The Guardian |date = 4 October 2009 |access-date = 8 May 2016 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/oct/04/david-cameron-bullingdon-club }}
• Jo Johnson (1971–), government minister (2015–2019) and Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit (2013–2015)
• George Osborne (1971–), First Secretary of State (2015–2016) and Chancellor of the Exchequer (2010–2016)

• Rupert Soames (1959–), Winston Churchill's grandson and CEO of Serco
• Roddie Fleming (1953-), former chairman of Fleming Family & Partners, and nephew of James Bond creator Ian Fleming.{{cite web |last1=Mutch, Jack Myers, Adam Lusher |first1=Nick |last2=Owen |first2=Jonathan |last3=Myers |first3=Jack |last4=Lusher |first4=Adam |title=General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down - including new picture of David Cameron in his finery |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-photographic-history-of-bullingdon-club-tracked-down-including-new-picture-of-david-cameron-in-his-finery-10224679.html |website=www.independent.co.uk |access-date=4 May 2023 |date=6 May 2015}}
• Darius Guppy (1964–), businessman{{cite news|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1478131/Oxford-hellraisers-politely-trash-a-pub.html|title=Oxford hellraisers politely trash a pub|author=Richard Alleyne|date=4 December 2004 |location=London}}
• Sebastian James (1966–), Former CEO of Dixons Carphone, current CEO of Boots UK{{Cite news |title=Dixons Carphone boss could earn up to £4.9m next year |last=Butler |first=Sarah |newspaper=The Guardian |date=5 August 2015 |access-date=22 December 2016 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/05/dixons-carphone-sebastian-james-pay-salary-bonus}}
• Peter Holmes à Court (1968–), businessman{{cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4985718.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106154316/http://timesonline.co.uk./tol/news/politics/article4985718.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 January 2009|title=Drunken hellraising for the super-rich – how George Osborne met Nathaniel Rothschild|newspaper=The Times|date=21 October 2008|access-date=18 April 2010 |location=London |first=David |last=Byers}}
• Jason Gissing (1970–), co-founder of Ocado
• Nathaniel Rothschild (1971–), chairman of JNR Limited

• Antony Acland (1930–2021), former British diplomat and Provost of Eton College{{Cite news|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/09/breaking-the-bullingdon-club-omerta-secret-lives-of-the-men-who-run-britain|title=Breaking the Bullingdon Club Omertà: Secret Lives of the Men Who Run Britain|first=Tom|last=Mutch|newspaper=The Daily Beast|date=9 January 2016|via=www.thedailybeast.com}}
• David Bowes-Lyon (1902–1961), president of the Royal Horticultural Society, uncle of Elizabeth II
• Peter Fleming (1907–1971), writer and brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.{{cite book|last1=Rankin|first1=Nicholas|date=2011|title=Ian Fleming's Commandos|pages=35–36|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199782826|via=Googlebooks|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K_lQEAAAQBAJ}}
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy (1919–2009), journalist{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/oct/19/ludovic-kennedy-dies-89 |title=Ludovic Kennedy, veteran presenter and campaigner, dies at 89 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 October 2009 |location=London}}
• David Dimbleby (1938–), journalist{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2009/oct/18/observer-profile-david-dimbleby|title=David Dimbleby: Ringmaster of our democracy|last=Robinson|first=James|work=The Observer|publisher=18 October 2009|access-date=5 May 2012|location=London|date=18 October 2009}}
• Sir Thomas Hughes-Hallett (1954–), barrister
• Sebastian Roberts (1954–2023), Senior Army Representative at the Royal College of Defence Studies{{Cite news |date=17 March 2023 |title=Major General Sir Sebastian Roberts; Quintessential Irish Guards officer known for writing the army's moral doctrine manual and his deft way of handling the press |work=The Times |pages=36}}
• Harry Mount (1971–), author and journalist who is editor of The Oldie magazine and a frequent contributor to the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph.

• List of University of Oxford dining clubs
• Piers Gaveston Society
• Secret society

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