January Club

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The January Club was a discussion group founded in 1934 by Oswald Mosley to attract Establishment support for movement the British Union of Fascists.

It was under the effective control, for the BUF, of Robert Forgan. The founders as identified by MI5^[1] were Forgan, Donald Makrill, Francis Yeats-Brown and H. W. Luttman-Johnson.

Members of the January Club included Wing-Commander Sir Louis Greig, Lord Erskine a Conservative and Unionist MP and assistant Government whip, Lord William Montagu-Douglas-Scott, brother of the 8th Duke of Buccleuch and Conservative and Unionist MP, and Lord and Lady Russell of Liverpool.