No woman has ever been a member of London’s Garrick Club. Members were so outraged by actor Hugh Bonneville’s suggestion that Joanna Lumley join in 2011, some scrawled expletives and tore up ...

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Members of the Garrick Club in London's West End have voted to allow women to join the institution. The all-male private members' club, which was founded in 1831, had been under pressure to admit ...

Emily Bendell asked for membership in March and was turned down, so engaged lawyers to mount a legal challenge under the 2010 Equality Act An entrepreneur is challenging a London private member's ...

A businesswoman is set to launch legal action against one of the world's oldest private members' clubs as she argues its men-only membership rules breach British equality laws. The Garrick Club ...

Peter and his family lived in Lichfield and David was educated partly at Samuel Johnson's school there. Johnson and Garrick left for London in 1737 to seek their fortunes. David wrote his first play ...

The society was founded in London in the early 20th century to ... The change comes after the Garrick Club vote to allow women to join as members for the first time after a high-profile campaign.

He is the son of the pianist and composer Michael Garrick. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1989-1994, leaving with a first-class honours in his Performers' Degree.