Pitt Club

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The University Pitt Club, popularly referred to as the Pitt Club, is a socially exclusive, invitation-only club for male students at the University of Cambridge^{[citation needed]} who, for the most part, attended certain public schools^{[citation needed]}.This is not, however, a criterion for membership. It was founded in 1835 and named in honour of William Pitt the Younger^{[citation needed]}, who had been a student at Pembroke College, Cambridge. The Club has premises at 7a Jesus Lane. It used to occupy the whole of a prominent neo-classical building, however, as a result of financial difficulties in the 1990s, the Club now occupies only the upper floors of the building, renting out the ground floor to a restaurant called Pizza Express ^[1], and the basement to a nightclub called Po Na Na, which has since closed ^[2]. The Club is reached through a side door (the one on the left while facing the front entrance)^{[citation needed]}. The equivalent club at the University of Oxford is The Gridiron Club, at St David's University College The 16' Club, at the University of St. Andrews the Kate Kennedy Club and at Harvard the Porcellian Club. The Pitt Club maintains reciprocal relations with the Oxford and Cambridge Club and Oxford's Gridiron Club ^[3].

The current president of the Pitt Club is the renown History of Art Professor David Watkin. The other trustees are Tim Steel, Jeremy Norman and Lord Edward Spencer Churchill.