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Melbourne Beefsteak Club

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Agent TypeOrganisationIdentifierUMA-AG-000001459Activities & OccupationsClubs, social and culturalHistoryEstablished in 1886, the Club is Australia's oldest dining club, stemming from London's Beefsteak Club of Regency fame. The Melbourne counterpart meets monthly for dinner and an address by one of its members or a guest speaker. Its membership, once exclusively male, is drawn from academic, professional and business circles.
Established in 1886, the Club is Australia’s oldest dining club, stemming from London’s Beefsteak Club of Regency fame. The Melbourne club meets monthly for dinner and an address by one of its members or a guest speaker. Its membership once exclusively male, is drawn from academic, professional and business circles.
Monthly meetings consist of a meal of which beef (usually steak) is an indispensable feature, the reciting of the Club "ritual" by the member elected as "Master" for the evening, and the Master’s address on a light or serious topic on which members are expected to comment. Notes of the proceedings are taken by the "Recorder" and accounts are kept by the "Moneyer". During the greater part of the Club’s history one guest only, the Master’s, was admitted to each Dinner, but in later years three were acceptable.
The method of electing new members after nominations have been received is described in the records of the 706th Dinner, 29th May 1959:
"…the approved nominations be then submitted to the Club at the following dinner, for ballot. No guests to be present at this dinner. The qualifications of each nominee to be briefly outlined by the nominator concerned. Members of the Club to indicate their preferences – 1, 2, 3, etc. – for those nominees whose membership they approve. In the event of a member disapproving of a nominee, he will be requested to draw a line through the name of that particular nominee. Two or more disapprovals indicated in this fashion to disqualify any nominee for election…"

Members of the Beefsteak Club
1886-1960

Avery, Eric Nugent

Bailey, Kenneth H.
Barnes, John
Barrett, James W.
Bednall
Brain, Hugh G.
Brennan, Thomas C.
Browne, George S.
Bryant, H.W.
Burstall, Aubrey F.

Cole, Adrian T.
Collins, Joseph T.
Cowen, H. Osburn
Cowan, Ralph W.T.
Cunningham, Edward S.
Cunningham, Kenneth S.

Davies, Seymour G. Pilkington
Deegan, J.F.
Derham, David Plumley
Dickson, R.

Ellis, Alexander
Ewing, M.

Finn,Edmund
Fitts, Clive H.
Fletcher, Matthew
Floyd, Alfred E.

Gale, Walter A.
Gardner, Mark Clayson
Goldstein, Jacob R.Y.
Gunn, John Alexander

Hamer, A. W.
Hansen, N.P.
Hartnett, Laurence J.
Heinze, Bernard Thomas
Herring, Edmund F.
Hethering, J.B.
Hope
Hughes, Wilfred Selwyn Kent

Ievers, William

Law, P.C.
Lemon, Robert
Leon, Samuel
Lewers, Alexander
Lewers, W.
Lindell
McDonald, Hector
McInerney, Thomas Patrick
Meyer, Felix
Moloney, James
Monash, John
Moran, Frederick H.
Morrison, Crosbie
Myer, Kenneth

Neville,
Norris, Frank Kingsley

O’Sullivan, Michael U.

Potter, William Ian
Potts, Charles J.
Ray, Henry
Rogers, James S.
Russell, Hamilton
Ryan, Charles Snodgrass

Salway, William
Sewell, Sidney Valentine
Sholl, Reginald R.
Skeats, Ernest Wellington
Smith, J. Frank
Smith, James Taylor Vinton
Smythe, Carlyle
Solway, William
Southey, R.J.
Spencer, W. Baldwin
Stanley, Sir Arthur
Stevens, Edward
Stewart, J. McKellar
Strutt, C.W.
Stuart, Frank
Stuart, R. Leslie
Sugden, Edward H.
Sutcliffe, J.R.
Syme, George A.

Tate, Frank
Tucker, T.G.
Turner, Henry Gyles
Tweddle, Joseph T.

Wadham, Samuel
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Moneyer's correspondence relating to members' subscriptions, dinner costs, disbursements

Statements of receipt and expenditure, financial statements, occasional examples of the Moneyer's report in verse

A Short History of the Melbourne Beefsteak Club

Addresses given to Meetings

Examples of verse addressed to assembled members of the herd at monthly dinners

Beefsteak Rituals

Listing of members, dinner attendances, fees, nominations and election procedure

Agendum of monthly dinner proceedings, D833, 5 Mar 1971 - D890, 29 Oct 1976

Commemorative Dinner Menus 200th - 800th

Chronicles of the Beefsteak Club 1886-1889

Melbourne Beefsteak Club

Dinner 727

Dinners 936 - 965

Dinners 888 - 935

Dinners 840 - 887

Dinners 779 - 839

Dinners 724 - 768

Dinner 727

Dinners 674 - 723

Dinners 625 - 672

Dinners 601 - 624

Dinners 576 - 600

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[UMA-SR-000002501] Melbourne Beefsteak Club - 5 - Financial Records

[UMA-SR-000002500] Melbourne Beefsteak Club - 4 - Addresses, Prose and Verse

[UMA-SR-000002499] Melbourne Beefsteak Club - 3 - Conduct of Dinner Proceedings & Members Elections

[UMA-SR-000002498] Melbourne Beefsteak Club - 2 - Monthly Dinner Proceedings Agendum

[UMA-SR-000002497] Melbourne Beefsteak Club - 1 - Monthly Dinner Proceedings and Addresses

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[2012.0278] Records of the Melbourne Beefsteak Club

[1994.0029] Addresses to Melbourne Beefsteak by Seymour George Pilkington Davies

[1967.0011] Consolidated Records of the Melbourne Beefsteak Club

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Meyer, Felix Henry

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Date1886-

University of Melbourne Archives

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