X Club
About X Club
The X Club was a dining club of nine men who supported the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism in late 19th-century England. Thomas Henry Huxley was the initiator; he called the first meeting for 3 November 1864. The club met in London once a month—except in July, August and September—from November 1864 until March 1893, and its members are believed to have wielded much influence over scientific thought. The members of the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, and John Tyndall, united by a "devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas."
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That ruined his life, sent him to jail. So, while I was reading that, I discovered that on the 3rd of November, 1864, at St. George's Hotel on this road, a social network was set up called the X Club. It was run by nine great scientists, one of whom was George Busk. This was one of the very first scientific groups.
from No Such Thing As A Toilet Break For A Tuna, 2026-08-06 at 00:32:53 · read transcript
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Thomas Huxley was the original. John Lubbock, a lot of people who would have lectured in this very room. Ellen called it the X Club because she said, you need a name where you can just change and adapt to what the club is. You don't want to get stuck into one thing. It means you can talk about anything because X can be anything.
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That there was an invisible realm that was affecting our realm. The X Club were more like, no, science is science, and religion shouldn't get involved,.
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