What is the Garrick Club? Men-only members club votes to let women join

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What is the Garrick Club? Men-only members club votes to let women join

King Charles, actors Stephen Fry and Benedict Cumberbatch, politicians Kwasi Kwarteng and Jacob Rees-Mogg, and author Charles Dickens, have all been members (Picture: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters/Metro.co.uk) No woman has ever been a member of London’s Garrick Club. Members were so outraged by actor Hugh Bonneville’s suggestion that Joanna Lumley join in 2011, some scrawled expletives and tore up the nomination page. Founded in 1831 as a place where…