After nearly two centuries of exclusion, the Garrick Club has finally been dragged into the 21st century by agreeing to open its doors to women members.

I t took 193 years for the all-male Garrick Club to open its doors to equality and allow women to become equal members. The vote was finally passed with 59.98 per cent of votes in favour, at the ...

Members of the Garrick Club, in London’s West End, gathered Tuesday to debate admitting women to the club, the BBC and the Guardian reported.

Garrick Club of London Votes to Accept Female Members for First Time The move ended a decades-long dispute that had divided the opulent private club and generated multiple conflicting legal arguments.

So, a coup for The Guardian. After publishing a list of the members of the male-only Garrick Club in much the same spirit as it might out members of the English Defence League, it has now got ...

The Garrick, in Covent Garden, was founded in 1831 for actors and “men of refinement and education”. It was one of the last private members’ clubs in London not to allow women to join.

The real problem, though, for the public figures on the Garrick's membership list, is that choosing to spend your evenings in a club that reeks of the unreformed establishment, and which actively ...