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The '''Bullingdon Club''' is a long-established club for students at the University of Oxford | The '''Bullingdon Club''' is a long-established club for students at the University of Oxford.<ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> | ||
Originally founded as a sports club in the 19th century, it became notorious for vandalism, sexism, drunken rowdiness, and elitism.<ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> By the 21st century the degenerate behaviour of club members — including future Tory ministers like Cameron, Osborne, Gove, and Johnson — had caused the club membership to dwindle.<ref name=BBCNews2010-05-11/> In 2018, the Oxford Conservative Party Association | Originally founded as a sports club in the 19th century, it became notorious for vandalism, sexism, drunken rowdiness, and elitism.<ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> By the 21st century the degenerate behaviour of club members — including future Tory ministers like Cameron, Osborne, Gove, and Johnson — had caused the club membership to dwindle.<ref name=BBCNews2010-05-11/> In 2018, the Oxford Conservative Party Association barred Club members from leadership positions within the Association.<ref name=theguardian2018-10-14/> | ||
When Johnson was Prime Minister he was criticized for appointing individuals, who had been his friends in the club, to posts for which they seem unqualified.<ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> | When Johnson was Prime Minister he was criticized for appointing individuals, who had been his friends in the club, to posts for which they seem unqualified.<ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> | ||
Johnson was widely criticized for appointing former Bullingdon Club member Ewen Fergusson | Johnson was widely criticized for appointing former Bullingdon Club member Ewen Fergusson to the Committee on Standards in Public Life - a committee intended to rout out corrupt activities.<ref name=Mirror2021-08-02/> Ferguson was the 173 choice in a ranking of possible candidates for committee membership.<ref name=independent2021-08-02/> | ||
Even after the earlier criticism for appointing other friends of his, on September 2, 2022 - less than a week before his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed former club member Harry Mount | Even after the earlier criticism for appointing other friends of his, on September 2, 2022 - less than a week before his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed former club member Harry Mount to the House of Lords appointments commission.<ref name=theguardian2022-09-02/> Mount is the author of ''The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson'', which is not a satire. | ||
The club was mocked by Evelyn Waugh | The club was mocked by Evelyn Waugh in ''Brideshead Revisited'' and ''Decline and Fall'', and in the 2014 film ''The Riot Club''.<ref name=radiotimes2017-03-31/><ref name=theguardian2022-06-16/> | ||
==Members include== | ==Members include== | ||
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! name || period || notes | ! name || period || notes | ||
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| Prince of Wales | | Prince of Wales || 1913 || His mother Queen Mary, forced him to resign.<ref name=nytimes1913-05-28/> | ||
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| Edward Sebastian Grigg | | Edward Sebastian Grigg || 1980s || | ||
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| David Cameron | | David Cameron || 1980s || Later served as Prime Minister. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ralph Perry Robinson | | Ralph Perry Robinson || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Ewen Fergusson | | Ewen Fergusson || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Matthew Benson | | Matthew Benson || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Sebastian James | | Sebastian James || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Jonathan Ford | | Jonathan Ford || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Boris Johnson | | Boris Johnson || 1980s || Later served as Prime Minister. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Harry Eastwood | | Harry Eastwood || 1980s || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| George Osborne | | George Osborne || 1990s || Served as Chancellor of the Exchequer.<ref name=nytimes2008-10-22/><ref name=nytimes2009-10-16/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Nathaniel Rothschild | | Nathaniel Rothschild || 1990s || A hedge fund financier.<ref name=nytimes2008-10-22/> Had a high-profile breach in his friendship with fellow Bullingdon member George Osborne. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Jason Gissing | | Jason Gissing || 1990s || A founder of Ocado, a successful online grocery delivery service.<ref name=theguardian2008-10-26/><ref name=dailymail2007-04-07/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Chris Coleridge | | Chris Coleridge || 1990s || From the Coleridge family of publishers, he founded a firm that successfully marketed "vitamin water".<ref name=dailymail2007-04-07/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Lupus von Maltzahn | | Lupus von Maltzahn || 1990s || A German from a family with inherited wealth.<ref name=dailymail2007-04-07/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Mark Petre | | Mark Petre || 1990s || Heir to a hereditary title, died in 2004, if his father had pre-deceased him he would have been the 19th Baron Petre.<ref name=dailymail2007-04-07/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Peter Holmes a Court | | Peter Holmes a Court || 1990s || A theatre empressario and owner of a Rugby club.<ref name=dailymail2007-04-07/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Michael Gove | | Michael Gove || 1990s || ''"Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, former president of the Oxford Union"''.<ref name=TheBullingdonClub2010-03-14/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Adam Bruce | | Adam Bruce || 1990s || ''"Son of the Earl of Elgin and incumbent Unicorn Pursuivant of Arms"''.<ref name=TheBullingdonClub2010-03-14/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Edward Vaizey | | Edward Vaizey || 1990s || ''"son of Lord Vaizey and the Shadow Minister for Culture"''.<ref name=TheBullingdonClub2010-03-14/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Nicholas Boles | | Nicholas Boles || 1990s || ''"Founder of Think Tank Policy Exchange, and conservative activist."''<ref name=TheBullingdonClub2010-03-14/> | ||
|- | |- | ||
| Steven Hilton | | Steven Hilton || 1990s || ''"director of strategy for Cameron and godfather of Cameron’s children."''<ref name=TheBullingdonClub2010-03-14/> | ||
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| url = https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447223/Oxford-1992-Portrait-classless-Tory.html | | url = https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447223/Oxford-1992-Portrait-classless-Tory.html | ||
| title = Oxford 1992: Portrait of a 'classless' Tory | | title = Oxford 1992: Portrait of a 'classless' Tory | ||
| work = Daily Mail | | work = Daily Mail | ||
| date = 2007-04-07 | | date = 2007-04-07 | ||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220804151022/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447223/Oxford-1992-Portrait-classless-Tory.html | | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220804151022/https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-447223/Oxford-1992-Portrait-classless-Tory.html | ||
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1927/02/23/archives/smash-windows-at-oxford-bullingdon-club-students-stage-disorder-at.html | | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1927/02/23/archives/smash-windows-at-oxford-bullingdon-club-students-stage-disorder-at.html | ||
| title = SMASH WINDOWS AT OXFORD; Bullingdon Club Students Stage Disorder at Christ Church College. | | title = SMASH WINDOWS AT OXFORD; Bullingdon Club Students Stage Disorder at Christ Church College. | ||
| work = New York Times | | work = New York Times | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 1927-02-23 | | date = 1927-02-23 | ||
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1913/05/28/archives/wales-in-trouble-over-club-supper-queen-mary-orders-the-prince-to.html | | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1913/05/28/archives/wales-in-trouble-over-club-supper-queen-mary-orders-the-prince-to.html | ||
| title = WALES IN TROUBLE OVER CLUB SUPPER; Queen Mary Orders the Prince to Resign from the Lively Bullingdon at Oxford. | | title = WALES IN TROUBLE OVER CLUB SUPPER; Queen Mary Orders the Prince to Resign from the Lively Bullingdon at Oxford. | ||
| work = New York Times | | work = New York Times | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 1913-05-28 | | date = 1913-05-28 | ||
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| url = https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2008/10/who-doctored-th.html | | url = https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2008/10/who-doctored-th.html | ||
| title = Who doctored the toffs? | | title = Who doctored the toffs? | ||
| work = Mail on Sunday | | work = Mail on Sunday | ||
| author = Peter Hitchens | | author = Peter Hitchens | ||
| date = 2008-10-25 | | date = 2008-10-25 | ||
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| url = https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-bullingdon-club/ | | url = https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/03/14/the-bullingdon-club/ | ||
| title = The Bullingdon Club | | title = The Bullingdon Club | ||
| work = Iconic photos | | work = Iconic photos | ||
| author = | | author = | ||
| date = 2010-03-14 | | date = 2010-03-14 | ||
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/europe/22iht-britain.4.17177066.html | | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/world/europe/22iht-britain.4.17177066.html | ||
| title = The whiff of scandal stinks in crisis-struck U.K. | | title = The whiff of scandal stinks in crisis-struck U.K. | ||
| work = New York Times | | work = New York Times | ||
| date = 2008-10-22 | | date = 2008-10-22 | ||
| page = | | page = | ||
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| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/global/17debt.html | | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/business/global/17debt.html | ||
| title = In Britain, a Soaring Deficit Lifts a Hawk | | title = In Britain, a Soaring Deficit Lifts a Hawk | ||
| work = New York Times | | work = New York Times | ||
| author = Landon Thomas Jr. | | author = Landon Thomas Jr. | ||
| date = 2009-10-16 | | date = 2009-10-16 | ||
| page = B1 | | page = B1 | ||
| location = Manchester | | location = Manchester | ||
| archiveurl = | | archiveurl = | ||
| archivedate = | | archivedate = | ||
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| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-sleaze-committee-standards-public-life-b1895212.html | | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-sleaze-committee-standards-public-life-b1895212.html | ||
| title = Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club ‘chum’ of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role | | title = Government passed over 171 candidates to pick Bullingdon Club ‘chum’ of Boris Johnson for sleaze watchdog role | ||
| work = The Independent | | work = The Independent | ||
| author = Jon Stone | | author = Jon Stone | ||
| date = 2021-08-02 | | date = 2021-08-02 | ||
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/14/bullingdon-is-on-its-uppers-lets-celebrate-by-trashing-a-restaurant | | url = https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/14/bullingdon-is-on-its-uppers-lets-celebrate-by-trashing-a-restaurant | ||
| title = The Bullingdon is on its uppers. Let’s all celebrate by trashing a restaurant | | title = The Bullingdon is on its uppers. Let’s all celebrate by trashing a restaurant | ||
| work = The Guardian | | work = The Guardian | ||
| author = Barbara Ellen | | author = Barbara Ellen | ||
| date = 2018-10-14 | | date = 2018-10-14 | ||
| location = University of Oxford | | location = University of Oxford | ||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220212023207/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/14/bullingdon-is-on-its-uppers-lets-celebrate-by-trashing-a-restaurant | | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20220212023207/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/14/bullingdon-is-on-its-uppers-lets-celebrate-by-trashing-a-restaurant | ||
| archivedate = 2022-02-12 | | archivedate = 2022-02-12 | ||
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount | | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/02/boris-johnson-gives-peerages-job-author-book-wit-wisdom-harry-mount | ||
| title = Boris Johnson gives peerages job to author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’ | | title = Boris Johnson gives peerages job to author of book on his ‘wit and wisdom’ | ||
| work = The Guardian | | work = The Guardian | ||
| author = Matthew Weaver, Henry Dyer | | author = Matthew Weaver, Henry Dyer | ||
| date = 2022-09-02 | | date = 2022-09-02 | ||
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| url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8661964.stm | | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8661964.stm | ||
| title = David Cameron: Life and times of new UK Prime Minister | | title = David Cameron: Life and times of new UK Prime Minister | ||
| work = BBC News | | work = BBC News | ||
| author = Brian Wheeler | | author = Brian Wheeler | ||
| date = 2010-05-11 | | date = 2010-05-11 | ||
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| url = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-bullingdon-club-chum-24669503 | | url = https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-bullingdon-club-chum-24669503 | ||
| title = Boris Johnson's Bullingdon club 'chum' selected out of 173 applicants for sleaze watchdog | | title = Boris Johnson's Bullingdon club 'chum' selected out of 173 applicants for sleaze watchdog | ||
| work = The Mirror | | work = The Mirror | ||
| author = Rachel Wearmouth | | author = Rachel Wearmouth | ||
| date = 2021-08-02 | | date = 2021-08-02 | ||
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| url = https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/did-decline-and-falls-bollinger-club-really-exist-evelyn-waugh-and-his-bullingdon-club-inspiration/ | | url = https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/did-decline-and-falls-bollinger-club-really-exist-evelyn-waugh-and-his-bullingdon-club-inspiration/ | ||
| title = Did Decline and Fall's Bollinger Club really exist? Evelyn Waugh and his Bullingdon Club inspiration | | title = Did Decline and Fall's Bollinger Club really exist? Evelyn Waugh and his Bullingdon Club inspiration | ||
| work = Radio Times | | work = Radio Times | ||
| author = Eleanor Bley Griffiths | | author = Eleanor Bley Griffiths | ||
| date = 2017-03-31 | | date = 2017-03-31 | ||
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/07/oxford-bullingdon-club-boris-johnson-sexism-violence-bullying-culture | | url = https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/07/oxford-bullingdon-club-boris-johnson-sexism-violence-bullying-culture | ||
| title = Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club | | title = Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club | ||
| work = The Guardian | | work = The Guardian | ||
| author = Harriet Sherwood | | author = Harriet Sherwood | ||
| date = 2019-07-07 | | date = 2019-07-07 | ||
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| url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/oct/26/george-osborne-nat-rothschild | | url = https://www.theguardian.com/news/blog/2008/oct/26/george-osborne-nat-rothschild | ||
| title = George Osborne, Nat Rothschild and the curious case of a Bullingdon Club picture | | title = George Osborne, Nat Rothschild and the curious case of a Bullingdon Club picture | ||
| work = The Guardian | | work = The Guardian | ||
| author = Steve Busfield | | author = Steve Busfield | ||
| date = 2008-10-26 | | date = 2008-10-26 |
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The Bullingdon Club is a long-established club for students at the University of Oxford.[1] Originally founded as a sports club in the 19th century, it became notorious for vandalism, sexism, drunken rowdiness, and elitism.[1] By the 21st century the degenerate behaviour of club members — including future Tory ministers like Cameron, Osborne, Gove, and Johnson — had caused the club membership to dwindle.[2] In 2018, the Oxford Conservative Party Association barred Club members from leadership positions within the Association.[3] When Johnson was Prime Minister he was criticized for appointing individuals, who had been his friends in the club, to posts for which they seem unqualified.[1] Johnson was widely criticized for appointing former Bullingdon Club member Ewen Fergusson to the Committee on Standards in Public Life - a committee intended to rout out corrupt activities.[4] Ferguson was the 173 choice in a ranking of possible candidates for committee membership.[5] Even after the earlier criticism for appointing other friends of his, on September 2, 2022 - less than a week before his scheduled retirement as Prime Minister, Johnson appointed former club member Harry Mount to the House of Lords appointments commission.[6] Mount is the author of The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, which is not a satire. The club was mocked by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall, and in the 2014 film The Riot Club.[7][1] Members include
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