[The Oxford Canning, Chatham and New Tory Clubs.] Eleven printed items, including a list of 'Resident Members', three menus, six seating plans, and a newspaper cutting.

10 printed items. In aged and worn condition, with seven items showing evidence of removal from an album and three items still attached to separated leaves from it. Comprising three card menus, five seating plans, a list of 'Resident Members' and a newspaper cutting. The Oxford New Tory Club was a university club to promote and discuss Tory principles, founded in 1861. Its records are in the Bodleian Library. ONE to THREE: menus for the years 1912, 1913 and 1914. Each a bifolium on card of 3pp., 12mo. The first two (1912 and 1913) are to 'The Annual Dinner of the Canning and Chatham Clubs at the Randolph Hotel, Oxford, and the third, for 'the Canning, Chatham and New Tory Clubs at the New Masonic Buildings, Oxford, | Saturday, June 6th, 1914. Toasts involve Lord Robert Cecil, Harry Chaplin, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Viscount Woolmer. The seating plans are from 1910, 1911 (3), 1913 and 1914. FOUR to EIGHT: Five seating plans, 1910-1914. All 1p., 8vo. Item Four (tipped-in onto card) is headed 'Oxford Canning and Chatham Clubs Dinner, | Masonic Buildings, High Street, Oxford, Friday, June 17th, 1910.' Guests include Sir Henry Bliss, Lord Selborne and J. St Loe Strachey. Item Five is headed 'The New Tory Club Dinner, | Friday, March 17th, 1911.' (W. G. Ormesby-Gore, F. E. Smith, Viscount Woolmer). Item Six: 'Jubilee Dinner of the Oxford Canning Club, | Randolph Hotel, May 31st, 1911' (Lord Hugh Cecil; Lord Lamington, Lord Curzon of Kedleston). Item Seven: 'Oxford Canning and Chatham Clubs Dinner, | Randolph Hotel, Oxford, Friday, June 13th, 1913.' (Lord Salisbury, Rev. R. A. Knox, Hon. Henry Lygon). Item Eight: 'Oxford Canning, Chatham and New Tory Clubs Dinner, | New Masonic Buildings, Saturday, June 6th, 1914.' (Count Potocki, Viscount Cranborne). NINE: List headed 'Oxford Canning Club. | Founded 9th of December, 1861. | "Sceptra fide, frenis plebs eget, ara metu." | Resident Members, Summer Term, 1910.' 1p., 8vo. Margins trimmed at head and foot. Laid down on card. List in two columns, cinluding officers and 'Committee of Selection' (including R. A. Knox). TEN: Newspaper cutting titled 'Oxford New Tory Club. | The Annual Dinner. | Mr. F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P., and the Unionist Party.' In three columns totalling 75 cm., laid down on card headed in manuscript: '1st Dinner given at the N.T. Club 1911'. Sub-heading's read 'Mr. Smith's Speech', 'Truncated and Inferior Constitution' and 'A United Party'.