Adelaide Club

Social club in Adelaide, South Australia

Adelaide Club

Formation| 1863 (1863)
Location|

* 165 North Terrace
Adelaide, South Australia

Coordinates| 34°55′19″S 138°36′00″E﻿ / ﻿34.921888°S 138.600017°E﻿ / -34.921888; 138.600017

The Adelaide Club is an exclusive gentlemen's club situated on North Terrace in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. Founded in 1863, the club comprises members of the Adelaide Establishment.[1]

## South Australian Club (1838–1843)

[edit]

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.[2] Members included Sturt, Morphett and Fisher.[3][4] Membership was by ballot; joining fee 10 gns., membership 2 gns. per annum.[5] It folded in 1843 after failing financially.[6]

## History and description

[edit]

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,[7] 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.[8]

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.[8]

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.[7] Facilities include a library, mixed accommodation for members and reciprocal club members, dining rooms, billiards room, function rooms and office facilities.[9]

## Equivalent women's club

[edit]

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

## Notable members

[edit]

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Members of the Adelaide Club have included:[8][10]

* 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[11]
* Lloyd Dumas
* Thomas Elder
* William Everard
* James Hurtle Fisher
* Michael Harbison[9]
* 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

## References

[edit]

1. ^ Adelaide Club bid to block licence of new rooftop club above Jamie Oliver's luxury restaurant The Advertiser, 30 May 2014, Accessed 7 November 2015.
2. ^ "The South Australian Club". The Southern Australian. Vol. II, no. 51\. South Australia. 22 May 1839. p. 3. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia. (Scroll down - untitled section about 9/10ths of the way down.)
3. ^ "Henry Calton versus South Australian Club". The Southern Australian. Vol. IV, no. 263\. South Australia. 23 November 1841. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
4. ^ "Resident Magistrate's Court". The Adelaide Observer. Vol. III, no. 156\. South Australia. 20 June 1846. p. 4. Retrieved 3 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
5. ^ "South Australia". South Australian Record And Australasian And South African Chronicle. Vol. 3, no. 55\. South Australia. 11 July 1840. p. 6. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
6. ^ "Advertising". South Australian Register. South Australia. 12 April 1843. p. 2. Retrieved 4 November 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
7. ^ a b "Adelaide Club, 165 North Tce, Adelaide, SA, Australia - listing on the now-defunct Register of the National Estate (Place ID 6403)". Australian Heritage Database. Australian Government. 21 October 1980. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
8. ^ a b c Van Dissel, Dirk. "The Adelaide Club". Adelaidia. History Trust of South Australia. "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."
9. ^ a b Day, Chris. For whom the bell tolls. City Messenger, 21 February 2008.
10. ^ Liberals In Power: The near-decade of conservative rule in Australia. Retrieved 14 April 2024 – via www.youtube.com.
11. ^ John Huxley and Maryann Stenberg, (26 May 1994), Meanwhile, The Adelaide Club Snores On, Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 23 February 2016]

## See also

[edit]

* Country club

## External links

[edit]

* Official website Retrieved 15 January 2021.
* Virtual Tour of the Club (requires Flash)
* History

Authority control databases

International|

* VIAF

National|

* Australia

This article about Adelaide is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This article about an organisation in Australia is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template