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Show Old Dining Club. The oldest dining club in England-older England-older even than "The Club" is tha Dilettanti club, founded in 1734 by Sir Francis Dashwood. Prominent among the original members was Lord Sandwich, Sand-wich, whose name is crystallized in half a dozen languages through his ordering a waiter to place some meat between two slices of bread and bring: it to him as he sat at the gaming table. Since 1784 the Dilettanti have-dined have-dined together on the first Sunday oj each month from February to July, Inclusive, their present meeting place being the Grafton galleries, where their magnificent collection of pictures pic-tures is housed. London Chronicle. |