List of Athenaeum Club members

The following are known to be, or have been, members of the Athenaeum Club, London.

Founders

 * John Wilson Croker (1780–1857) (founder)
 * James Burton (property developer) (1761–1837) (founder)
 * Decimus Burton (1800–1881) (founder, designer of Clubhouse)
 * Sir Humphry Davy (1778–1829) (founder, first chairman)
 * Michael Faraday (1791–1867) (founder, first Secretary)
 * Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830) (designer of Club seal)
 * Sir Francis Chantrey (1781–1841)
 * Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)

Members

 * Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912)
 * Richard Ansdell (1815–1885)
 * Edward Armitage R.A. (1817–1896)
 * Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
 * Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)
 * Alexander Bain (1818–1903)
 * Roger Bannister (1929–2018)
 * Sir Charles Barry (1795–1860)
 * Gilbert Bayes (1872–1953)
 * Robert Anning Bell (1863–1933)
 * Jocelyn Bell Burnell
 * Philip Bliss (academic) (1787-1857)
 * Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912)
 * Joseph Edgar Boehm Bart., R.A. (1834–1890)
 * Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891)
 * Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983)
 * John Brett (1831–1902)
 * John Bright (1811–1889)
 * Sir Thomas Brock, K.C.B., R.A. (1847–1922)
 * Robert Browning (1812–1889)
 * William Buckland (1784–1856)
 * Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)
 * John Burdon-Sanderson (1825–1925)
 * William Burges (1827–1881)
 * Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1896)
 * Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926)


 * Frederick Burton (1816–1900)


 * Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890)
 * George Busk (1807–1886)
 * William Butterfield (1814–1900)
 * Arthur Buxton (1882–1958)
 * George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll (1823–1900)
 * George Canning (1770–1827)
 * Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)
 * Robert Chambers (1802–1871)
 * Sir Francis Chantrey R.A. (1781–1841)
 * Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861)
 * Alfred Clayton Cole (1854–1920)
 * Edward Colebrooke, 1st Baron Colebrooke (1861-1939)
 * John Collier (1850–1934)
 * Charles Darwin (1809–1892)
 * William Reid Dick (1879–1961)
 * Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
 * Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847)
 * Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
 * Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832–1898)
 * Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)
 * Richard Doyle (1824–1883)
 * George du Maurier (1834–1896)
 * Robinson Duckworth (1834-1911)
 * Sir Alfred East (1849–1913)
 * Griffith Edwards (1928–2012)
 * Quentin Edwards (1925-2010)
 * Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
 * Thomas Faed (1826–1900)


 * Sir Luke Fildes (1844–1927)
 * John Henry Foley R.A. (1818–1874)
 * Robert James Forbes (1900–1973)
 * John Forster (1812–1876)
 * Sir George Frampton R.A. (1860–1928)
 * Edward Frankland (1825–1899)
 * William Powell Frith (1819–1909)
 * Sir Alfred Gilbert R.A. (1854–1934)
 * Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878)
 * Alec Guinness (1914–2000)
 * H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925)
 * George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (1784–1860)
 * James Duffield Harding (1797–1863)
 * Philip Hardwick (1792–1870)
 * Philip Charles Hardwick (1822–1892)
 * Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
 * Augustus Hare (1834–1903)
 * Thomas Archer Hirst (1830–1892)
 * Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817–1911)
 * Alfred William Hunt (1830–1896)
 * William Holman Hunt (1827–1910)
 * Noel Sydney Hush (1924-2019)
 * Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
 * John Rogers Herbert (1810–1890)
 * Hubert von Herkomer (1849–1914)
 * Washington Irving (1783–1859)
 * Henry James (1843–1916)
 * PD James, author (1920-2014)
 * Robert Banks Jenkinson, second Earl of Liverpool (1770–1828)
 * William Goscombe John (1860–1952)
 * Owen Jones (1809–1874)
 * Thomas Jones (1870–1955)
 * John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946)
 * Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
 * William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848)
 * Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802–1873)
 * Andrew Lang (1844–1912)
 * Benjamin Williams Leader (1831–1923)
 * Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton (1830–1896)
 * John Frederick Lewis (1805–1876)
 * John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
 * Sir Charles Lyell (1797–1875)
 * Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
 * Daniel Maclise (1806–1870)
 * Frederic Madden (1801-1873)
 * Henry Edward Cardinal Manning (1807–1892)
 * Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
 * Frederick Maurice (1805–1872)
 * James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
 * Theresa May (b. 1956)
 * Henry Melvill (1798–1871)
 * Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999)
 * Diane Middlebrook (1939–2007)
 * John Stuart Mill (1806–1873)
 * Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896)
 * Henry Hart Milman (1791–1868)
 * Leonard G. Montefiore (1889–1961)
 * Patrick Moore (1923–2012)
 * William Mulready R.A. (1786–1863)
 * John Nash (1752–1835)
 * Richard Owen (1804–1892)
 * Robert Peel (1788–1850)
 * Henry Alfred Pegram (1862–1937)
 * John Percy FRS (1817–1889)
 * Cooper Perry (1856–1938)
 * St John Philby (1885–1960)
 * Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell (1807–1897)
 * Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872)
 * Edward Poynter R.A. (1821–1902)
 * Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904)
 * Richard Redgrave (1804–1888)
 * Ralph Richardson (1902–1983)
 * George Richmond (1809–1896)
 * Sir William Blake Richmond (1842–1921)
 * David Roberts (1796–1864)
 * Samuel Rogers (1763–1855)
 * John Ruskin (1819–1900)
 * Lord John Russell (1792–1878)
 * Owen Rutter (1889–1944)
 * John Charles Ryle (1816–1900)
 * Archibald Sayce (1845-1933)
 * Jimmy Savile (1926–2011)
 * John Liston Byam Shaw (1872–1919)
 * Richard Norman Shaw (1831–1912)
 * Sir Martin Archer Shee P.R.A. (1769–1850)
 * John H. Smythe (1844–1908)
 * Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869)
 * Solomon J. Solomon (1860–1927)
 * William Somerville (1771–1860)
 * Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)
 * Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924)
 * Clarkson Stanfield (1793–1867)
 * Leslie Stephen (1832–1904)
 * Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)
 * George Edmund Street (1824–1881)
 * Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
 * John Addington Symonds (1807–1871)
 * Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop of Canterbury (1811–1882)
 * Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1821–1903)
 * Henry John Temple, Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865)
 * Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
 * William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
 * William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
 * Simon Thompson (b. 1959)
 * William Hamo Thornycroft R. A. (1850–1925)
 * Rick Trainor (b. 1948)
 * Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
 * Joseph Mallord William Turner R.A. (1775–1851)
 * John Tyndall (1820–1893)
 * Henry Vaughan (1809-1899)
 * Gore Vidal (1925–2012)
 * William Walton (1902–1983)
 * John William Waterhouse (1849–1917)
 * George Frederic Watts (1817–1904)
 * Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769–1852)
 * Sir Richard Westmacott, Junior RA (1775–1856)
 * William Whewell (1794–1866)
 * Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford (1805–1873)
 * William Wilberforce (1759–1833)
 * Thomas Woolner R.A. (1825–1892)