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Welcome! City of London Round Table normally meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, at 6pm for 6:30pm, until 9:30pm. Our normal venue for meetings is The Old Dr Butler's Head, 2 Masons Avenue (off Coleman Street, near the Guild Hall), Moorgate, London EC2V 5BT.
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So what's Round Table all about? Click here to learn The Big Secret.
It's all about: Trying new experiences you wouldn't otherwise have experienced..... With friends you wouldn't otherwise have met.... You can learn new stuff and.... You can put something back into the community.... It's not just local, its a worldwide club. Who wouldn't want to do that?
Interested in Joining? Here's Our Membership Process.
When you make contact we will endeavour to meet up with you on a one-to-one basis for a drink one lunchtime or evening so that we can answer any questions you have and explain a bit more about the club. The aim of this is just to ensure that when you attend your first meeting there is someone you already know and who has already met you. You would then attend our meetings for a few months (typically say 6 meetings over 3-months) as a guest to enable you to get to know the club and to decide whether you wish to join. When you are happy to make that commitment let us know and we will propose you for membership.
As a member we would expect you to attend 60% of the club's normal twice-monthly meetings. The club does not meet in August so there would be 22 normal meetings in a year (including the AGM which all members are expected to attend), so you would be expected to attend 14 of these meetings - just over 1 a month. We know that people have busy lives and that work and personal commitments can frequently intrude - not least due to travel - however this is a guideline. The simple truth is that the more you put in the more you will get out.
If you do not find this too onerous just e-mail us by clicking here with your name, age, address, occupation and contact numbers and we will seek to arrange the first step of the lunchtime or evening drink.
WE DID! WE DO! YOU CAN! We always welcome those interested in joining Round Table, or visitors from other Tables. If you would like to find out more about membership of City of London Round Table, or just want to visit us, just email us with your details.   
Our Meeting Venue - The Old Doctor Butler's Head.
The Old Doctor Butler's Head is a traditional English pub in the heart of the City of London within 5 minutes walk of both Bank and Moorgate underground stations. Originally established in 1610 the present building dates from after the Great Fire of 1666. Dr Butler was a specialist in nervous disorders whose 'miracle cures' included holding consultation on London Bridge during which the unfortunate client would be dropped through a trapdoor into the torrent below. For epilepsy he would fire a brace of pistols near his unsuspecting patient, to scare the epilepsy from them, or in cases of the plague, plunge the poor soul into cold water. So highly was he thus considered, despite his lack of qualifications that he was appointed court physician to King James 1. He also developed a medicinal ale for gastric ailments, which was available only from taverns which displayed Dr. Butler's head on their signs, this led to his acquiring a number of ale houses. Of these, the Old Dr. Butler's Head is the last remaining. The pub is owned by Shepherds Neame. We meet in one of the upstairs function rooms. To find the venue please click here for a map. We normally have a meal and drinks - total cost about £25 or so per head.
Roll Call of Past Chairmen
The early years
1929-32 Keith Pascall (Founding Chairman and 2nd National President of RTBI)
1932-33 H. C. Bateman
1933-34 H. S. Housden
1934-35 C. A. Newbury
1935-36 E. John Shuter (Founder of The London Old Tablers' Society (1939) and Founding National President of 41 Club (1945-47))
1936-37 N. G. Devonshire
1937-38 G. L. Jeffery
1938-39 H. H. Fuller-Clark
1939-40 K. J. Fulton
1940-46 H. L. Creak
1946-47 G. L. Jeffery
1947-48 W. A. Byars
1948-49 S. F. Warren
1949-50 R. G. Cooper
The 1950's
1950-51 K. S. Brown
1951-52 I. Murray
1952-53 J. Murphy
1953-54 R. E. Allen
1954-55 J. Bloxham
1955-56 W. B. Higgs
1956-57 D. W. Hayden
1957-58 J. E. H. Barnfield
1958-59 D. G. Foster
1959-60 Arthur Kennedy OBE (Past National President of 41 Club, 1981-82)
The 1960's
1960-61 R. H. Alsop
1961-62 C. J. Lambert
1962-63 Fred Crawley
1963-64 J. A. Bannister
1964-65 M. Riley
1965-66 Ernest Carrington
1966-67 David Baker
1967-68 John Rowland
1968-69 Leon Fish
1969-70 Ivan Wainer
The 1970's
1970-71 Michael J. Riley
1971-72 David Howitt
1972-73 Tony Howard
1973-74 John Rowland
1974-75 Mike Taffs
1975-76 Alan Gayler
1976-77 John Graham
1977-78 Russell Johnson
1978-79 Ronald Hotchkiss
1979-80 David Adams
The 1980's
1980-81 Ed Challen
1981-82 David Marsh
1982-83 John Graham
1983-84 Alan Gayler
1984-85 M. Smurthwaite
1985-86 Nick Owen
1986-87 Ed Challen
1987-88 Naeem Karim
1988-89 A. W. Norton
1989-90 Andrew Nahlis
The 1990's
1990-91 Don Sillars
1991-92 Naeem Karim
1993-94 Mosud Mannan
The Phoenix Years
2003-04 Bernie Skivington (Joint Refounding Chairman)
2004-05 Don Mullane (Joint Refounding Chairman)
2005-06 Martyn Hooton
2006-07 Denis Day
2007-08 Ian Bradley
2008-09 Angus Warren
2009-10 Paul Chambers |
