About Us

Our History

1911
Founding Year
Argentine Club is Founded
Argentinian flag

Members of the British community in Argentina found the Argentine Club to have a base and home in London. A lease is taken on No 1, Hamilton Place in Mayfair. Over the following years, membership grows to over 800.

1939
Hamilton Place hosts World War II Volunteers
World War II
Hamilton Place

During the Second World War, No 1 Hamilton Place becomes the unofficial meeting place and "home from home" for thousands of volunteers who came over from Latin America to join H.M.Forces. Food, drink and shelter were always available.

1949
Latin Americans welcomed to club
Club Expands Membership
Christ the Redeemer

When British businesses in Argentina were nationalised by Juan Domingo Perón in the late 1940s, the club adapts by broadening its membership remit to include the whole of Latin America as well as the Iberian Peninsula. As a result, the club is renamed the Canning Club, in honour of George Canning, the former British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister who had strong links to Latin America.

1970
Club moves to the In and Out
Cambridge House, 94 Picadilly

With many of its members resident overseas and plans afoot to develop the corner of Piccadilly and Hamilton Place into an Intercontinental Hotel, the Canning Club arranges to share premises with the In and Out Club at Cambridge House, 94 Piccadilly.

1999
Club moves to St James' Square
In and Out, 4 St. James's Square
In and Out Club

The Canning Club and the In and Out Club move to their present magnificent clubhouse at No 4 St. James's Square.

2021
The Present Day
The Canning Room

The Canning Club and the In and Out Club move to their present magnificent clubhouse at No 4 St. James's Square.