Atrium of the Reform Club, Pall Mall London

The Reform Club was founded in 1836, in Pall Mall, in London?s Clubland. The founders commissioned a leading architect of the day, Charles Barry, to build an imposing and palatial clubhouse. It was opened in 1841, and the Atrium is filled with portraits and busts of the heroes of the reformers.

Membership was restricted to those who pledged support for the Great Reform Act of 1832, and the many MPs and Whig peers among the early members developed the Club as the political headquarters of the Liberal Party.

This ended when the Liberal's split at the end of the Century and the Reform Club is no longer associated with any particular political party, and now serves a purely social function.