Dates

• Existence: 1893 - 2020

Biography

The Christchurch Savage Club was a social entertainment club founded in 1893 whose membership included artists, musicians, journalists, authors and scientists.

The club was a colonial off-shoot of the London Savage Club which was founded in 1857 and limited to actors, journalists and artists. This difference in membership created difficulties in having the Christchurch club affiliated to the original London institution in the early years.

In the early years the club enjoyed a large membership (over 200 members referenced in the Lyttelton Times in 1896) including many significant Christchurch figures such as William Henry Wynn Williams, Dr E. Jennings, A. J. Merton, R. E. McDougall, Samuel Hurst Seager and the artists Petrus van der Velden, John M. Madden and William Menzies Gibb.

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