gentlemen s club founded 1919 1919 headquarters 18 clifford street london united kingdom sw1 website bucksclub.co.uk buck s club is a gentlemen s club in london located at 18 clifford street established in june 1919 . p. g. wodehouse mentions it in some stories and modelled his drones club mostly after buck s. it is probably best known for the buck s fizz cocktail created there in 1921 by its bartender mcgarry . anthony lejeune in his book the gentlemen s clubs of london 1979 comments that buck s club is the only london club to have been founded since the first world war which ranks in social prestige and elegance with the best of st james s street clubs and like them it is named after its founder . 1 contents 1 overview 2 notable members 3 see also 4 notes and references 5 external links overview edit during the first world war captain h. j. herbert john buckmaster of the rhg and some of his colleagues agreed that after the war it would be good to establish a gentlemen s club that was somewhat less stuffy than those that currently existed . indeed they particularly wanted a club with an american cocktail bar something then beyond the pale for most traditional gentlemen s clubs . the club was established in june 1919 2 3 4 and its american bar was a focal point . american members were welcome although treated separately from a constitutional standpoint . the club for many years kept its tradition of sourcing members from the household cavalry regiments although its membership is now drawn from many walks of life and is renowned for its exuberance and the youth of its membership . citation needed the club is probably best known for seeing the creation of the buck s fizz cocktail in 1921 by its first bartender mr mcgarry . barman from 1919 to 1941 3 sometimes malachy mcgarry or pat mcgarry or spelled macgarry he is also usually credited with creating the sidecar cocktail . it receives three mentions in the stories of p. g. wodehouse ; 5 wodehouse modelled his fictional drones club after the buck s club and the bachelors club even naming his club s barman mcgarry too . norman murphy the distinguished wodehouse historian as the summary at the beginning of eggs beans and crumpets puts it in the heart of london s clubland there stands a tall and grimly forbidding edifice known to taxi drivers and the elegant young men who frequent its precincts as the drones club . yet its somewhat austere exterior belies the atmosphere of cheerful optimism and bonhomie that prevails within . in fact wodehouse never became a member here but his friend guy bolton did and they lunched together here several times . in the inimitable jeeves it was here that bertie who had dropped in for a quick bracer to fortify himself before lunch with aunt agatha was informed by bingo little speaking injudiciously loudly of his love for honoria glossop in front of mcgarry the chappie behind the bar . . listening with his ears flapping . rarely wodehouse had used a real name . mcgarry was the barman at buck s from 1919 to 1941 . fred thompson had also come in to the bar the real fred thompson a friend of wodehouse s was also a member of buck s . some famous former members include prime minister winston churchill politician brendan bracken 1st viscount bracken sir nigel edward seely 5th baronet writer guy bolton and actor nigel bruce . notable members edit to view a list of current members see list of buck s club members . see also edit list of london s gentlemen s clubs notes and references edit lejeune a. 1979 the gentlemen s clubs of london dorset press . english heritage 1963 . cork street and savile row area clifford street south side no. 18 clifford street buck s club page 482 88 . survey of london volumes 31 and 32 st james westminster part 2 at british history online . retrieved 2007 08 11 . buck s club was founded here in june 1919 by captain h. j. buckmaster and a number of fellow officers of the blues . a b alexander sinclair ian report 2007 . bertie wooster s mayfair . norman murphy s talk at wodehouse week 2007 the pgw society uk . archived from the original on 2007 08 11 . ... buck s club founded in 1919 by herbert buckmaster in nearby clifford street ... mcgarry was the barman at buck s from 1919 to 1941 . two less reliable and possibly inbred sources say 1918 clubs list from the royal bachelors club ; off site wiki webtender.com . the buck s club is visited by bertie wooster in 1923 s the inimitable jeeves and is mentioned in 1931 s big money and if i were you . external links edit buck s club.co.uk official website location and photo of the buck s club retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title buck % 27s club & oldid 666607933 categories gentlemen s clubs in london1919 establishments in englandhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from july 2014 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 june 2015 at 10 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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