Coefficients (dining club)
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The Coefficients was a dining club founded in 1902 at a dinner given by the Fabian campaigners Sidney and Beatrice Webb. It was a forum for the meeting of British socialist reformers and imperialists of the Edwardian era.
The club's membership included:
- Leopold Stennett Amery, statesman and Conservative politician.
- Richard Burdon Haldane, Liberal politician, lawyer, and philosopher.
- Halford John Mackinder, geographer and geopolitician.
- Leopold Maxse, editor, National Review
- Alfred Milner, statesman and colonial administrator
- Henry Newbolt, author and poet.
- Carlyon Bellairs, naval commander and M.P.
- James Louis Garvin, journalist and editor
- William Pember Reeves, New Zealand statesman, historian and poet
- Bertrand Russell, philosopher, and mathematician
- Sir Clinton Edward Dawkins, businessman and civil servant.
- Sir Edward Grey, Liberal politician
- H. G. Wells, novelist
[edit] External links
- The Coefficients at the British Library of Political and Economic Science
