Bucks Club

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Bucks Club is a gentleman's club in London established at 18 Clifford Street in June 1919.

During the First World War Captain HJ Buckmaster RHG and some of his colleagues agreed that after the war it would be good to establish a gentleman's club that was somewhat less stuffy than those that currently existed. Indeed, they particularly wanted a club with an American Cocktail Bar, something then beyond the pale for most traditional gentlemen's clubs. The club was established in June 1919 and its American Bar was a focal point. American members were welcome although treated separately from a constitutional standpoint. The club for many years kept its tradition of sourcing members from the Household Cavalry regiments although its membership is now drawn from many walks of life. Renowned for its exuberance and the youth of its membership it receives a number of mentions in PG Wodehouse.

The Club is probably best known for the invention of Buck's Fizz by one of its barmen, Mr McGarry, in 1921.