The reform club was founded in 1836 for the purpose of promoting social intercourse among the Reformers of the United Kingdom. Five years earlier The Carlton Club had been established to resist reforms in the Parliamentary representation of. The people. Two Liberal Clubs existed before 1836. The one was Brooks's, where members of the Whig party congregated; the other was the Westminster Reform Club, where Radicals were in the majority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.