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 group met monthly.[1]
The club's membership included:[2]
- 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
In 1903 Russell resigned from the club after a disagreement on the policy of Entente, promoted in a speech by Edward Grey. Russell claimed Entente would lead to war.[3]
The club existed until 1909. Printed minutes of its meetings are held by the British Library of Political and Economic Science.
[edit] References
- ^ Bertrand Russell. The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, p.452. ISBN 0415104629.
- ^ Archives Catalogue - Coefficients. LSE Library.
- ^ Bertrand Russell. Autobiography, p. 156. ISBN 041522862X.
