• Source: Australian Club (Melbourne)

The Australian Club in Melbourne, Australia is a gentleman's club founded in 1878 by English settlers to provide accommodation, food and refreshments, and congenial surroundings for Melbourne and Victorian businessmen.
The Club is still active and its building at 110 William Street retains its original 19th-century architecture and furniture.




Architecture


The building was designed by Lloyd Tayler in 1879 and erected in two stages in 1879 and 1886 in the Renaissance Revival style of a four storey Italianate palazzo. Tayler himself was expelled from the club shortly afterward. The facade was doubled in width in 1886 by J Charlesworth in a matching symmetrical style. The majority of the building's internal and external fabric is preserved and intact. The portico, loggia, copper mansard roof and cupola were added in 1893 at the end of the land boom.




Notable members


The following notable persons are known to have been members:

Sir William John Clarke (1831–1897), landowner, stud-breeder and philanthropist
Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk (1886–1965), radio pioneer and businessman
Sir Colin Fraser (1875–1944),
Duncan Gillies (1834–1903), politician
Rupert W. Hornabrook (1871–1951), anaesthetist
Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson (1875–1952), politician and lawyer
Sir James MacBain (1828–1892), businessman and politician
John Alexander MacPherson (1833–1894), politician
Sir Norman Angus Martin (1893–1978), farmer, grazier and politician
Alexander Morrison (1829–1903), schoolmaster
Sir William Herbert Phillipps (1847–1935), merchant and philanthropist in SA
Sir Alfred Roberts (1823–1898), surgeon
William Rutledge (1806–1876), merchant, banker and settler
Edmund Edmonds Smith (1847–1914), ship-owner
Sir Sydney Snow (1887–1958), retailer
Sir Colin Syme (1903–1986), businessman
Col. P. W. Vaughan (1871–1945), banker
William Irving Winter-Irving (1840–1901), pastoralist
Charles William Wren (1856–1934), banker




References






External links


Australian Club — about us
Victorian Heritage Database

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