The Portland Club is a London card-playing game club and the recognised early authority on the games of whist and bridge . It is reputedly the oldest card club in the world. Founded in October 1814 as the Stratford Club, 1, Stratford Place .
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8-834: A house that the club had bought there. However, in 1943 the Royal Institute of International Affairs bought the house from the Portland Club, which moved to Charles Street , an address which it left in 1969 for 42, Half Moon Street . From 1999 to 2014, the Portland Club was housed in the Savile Club , 69 Brook Street , then moved to its present premises. The Club now meets in the Army and Navy Club at 36-39 Pall Mall, London SW1. 51°30′23″N 0°08′09″W / 51.5063°N 0.1357°W / 51.5063; -0.1357 This article about an organisation in
12-511: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Portland Club (London) Following the bankruptcy of its bank, Marsh, Sibbald, and Co. , in October 1824, the club had to change its partnership and was renamed the Portland Club in January 1825. Two newspapers reported the event: The Star of 5 November 1824 advertised: “In consequence of
16-831: The failure of the Berners-street Banking-house, which possessed its funds, the Stratford Club, in Oxford-street, is about to be dissolved.” And, on 7 January 1825, The Morning Herald wrote: “It is the rump of the Old Stratford Club, we now hear, which assumes the imposing title of the Portland; and not, as we had been led to suppose, an entirely new Society.” The Portland Club remained in its Stratford Place/Oxford Street premises until 1890. It then moved to 9, St James's Square , in
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