List of Elizabethan Club members
The Elizabethan Club is a social club that was founded in 1911 at Yale University.[1][2] Following are some of the notable members of the Elizabethan Club.
Academia
- Wilbur Cortez Abbott, historian and professor at Yale University[3]: 4
- George Burton Adams, medievalist historian who taught at Yale University[4]: 5
- George Pierce Baker (honorary), professor of English at Harvard University and Yale University[3]: 45
- Alfred Bellinger, archaeologist and numismatist who taught at Yale University[4]: 6
- Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University and dean of Yale College[2]
- Clive Day, professor of economic history at Yale University[3]: 49
- Henry Walcott Farnam, professor of political economy at Yale University[3]: 50
- Richard Foster Flint, professor of geology at Yale University[4]: 3
- Charles Mills Gayley (honorary), professor of English, the classics, and academic dean of the University of California, Berkeley[3]: 45
- A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University, commissioner of Major League Baseball, and President of th
- e National League[5]
- Alfred Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University[6][4]: 43
- Ashbel Green Gulliver, dean of Yale Law School[7]
- Francis Barton Gummere (honorary), English professor at Haverford College; folklore and ancient languages scholar[3]: 45
- Arthur Twining Hadley (honorary), president of Yale University[3]: 45
- Cyrus Hamlin, English and literature professor at Yale University and the University of Toronto[8]
- Ray Heffner, president of Brown University[4]: 45
- William Ernest Hocking, philosophy professor at Harvard University[3]: 50
- G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Sterling Professor of Zoology at Yale University[4]: 5
- A. V. Williams Jackson (honorary), professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University[3]: 45
- Albert Galloway Keller, sociologist and professor at Yale University[3]: 51
- George Kubler, art historian[4]: 5
- Charlton Miner Lewis, chair of the English Department at Yale University[3]: 51
- Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, scholar and founder of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University[4]: 5
- Thomas Lounsbury (honorary), professor of English language and literature at Yale University[3]: 45
- Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College[3]: 51
- John Matthews Manly (honorary), professor of English literature and philology at the University of Chicago[3]: 45
- Edward Parmelee Morris, classist and professor at Yale University[3]: 52
- Wallace Notestein, Sterling Professor of English History at Yale University[4]: 5
- Bernadotte Perrin, Lampson Professor of Greek literature and history at Yale University[3]: 52
- Henri Peyre, linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French emeritus at Yale University[4]: 57
- William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale University[4]: 5
- Eugene V. Rostow, dealn of Yale Law School[5]
- Felix Emanuel Schelling (honorary), professor of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania[3]: 45
- Vincent Scully, art historian and professor at Yale University[2][4]: 63
- Charles Seymour, president of Yale University[4]: 5
- Ted Sizer, founder and presidnet of the Essential Schools Movement[4]: 6
- Chauncey Brewster Tinker, scholar of English Literature and Sterling Professor at Yale University[4]: 5
- Charles Cutler Torrey, taught Semitic languages at Andover Theological Seminary and Yale University[3]: 54
- Williston Walker, church historian with Yale University[3]: 54
- John Ferguson Weir, painter, scuptor, first director and dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University[3]: 54
Art and architecture
- Grosvenor Atterbury, architect, urban planner and writer[4]: 47
- Carroll Carstairs, art dealer[4]: 48
- George S. Chappell, architect[3]: 48
- William Henry Goodyear, architectural historian, art historian, and curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum[3]: 50
- Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, printmaker and painter[3]: 51
- Robert Osborn, satiric cartoonist and illustrator[4]: 57
Business
- John Crosby Brown, senior partner in the investment bank Brown Bros. & Co.[3]: 48
- Alexander Smith Cochran, manufacturer, sportsman, and philanthropist[2][4]: 33
- Gifford A. Cochran, owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and winner Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes[3]: 49
- Theodore Low De Vinne (honorary), printer and scholarly author on typography[3]: 45
- Henry Clay Folger (honorary), chairman of Standard Oil of New York and co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library[3]: 45
- Edward Harkness, director of the Southern Pacific Railroad and philanthropist[3]: 50
- Henry E. Huntington (honorary) creator of the Central Pacific Railroad and collector of art and rare books[3]: 45
- Carl Pforzheimer (honorary), a founder of the American Stock Exchange[9]
- David F. Swensen, investor, endowment fund manager, and philanthropist[10]
Entertainment
- T. Lawrason Riggs, lyricist who worked with Cole Porter and Catholic priest[3]: 53
- David Stanley Smith, classical composer[3]: 53
- Jeremy Strong, actor[2]
Law
- Edward Jordan Dimock, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York[3]: 49
- Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, legal scholar and professor of international law at Yale Law School[3]: 54
Librarianship
- William Loring Andrews (honorary), first librarian of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]: 45
- Ridgely Hunt, librarian of the Yale University Library[11]: 180
- Andrew Keogh (honorary), head librarian of Yale University Library[3]: 3
- Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, poet, and Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Relations[3]: 51
- John Christopher Schwab (honorary), librarian of the Yale University Library[3]: 46
- Addison Van Name, University Librarian of Yale University[3]: 54
- Thomas James Wise (honorary), bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library[3]: 46
Literature and journalism
- Thomas Beer, biographer, novelist, essayist, satirist, and author of short fiction[3]: 47
- Henry Augustin Beers, poet, author, literary historian, and professor at Yale University[4]: 47
- Stephen Vincent Benét, poet, short story writer, and novelist[5]
- Harold Bloom, literary critic, scholar, and writer[2][4]: 29
- C. D. B. Bryan, author and journalist[4]: 3
- William F. Buckley Jr., novelist, conservative author and commentator[2]
- Henry Seidel Canby, literary critic, editor, and Yale University professor[3]: 48
- Jack Randall Crawford, novelist, playwright, and literary critic[3]: 49
- Clarence Day, author best known for Life with Father[3]: 49
- Lee Wilson Dodd, playwright, poet, novelist, and short story writer[12]: 167
- Rufus King, author of detective stories[3]: 51
- Stoddard King, author and songwriter[12]: 123
- Brian Hooker, poet and author[3]: 50
- Kenneth Rand, poet[13][3]: 53
- George Selden, novelist[14]
- Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. (honorary), biographer and Epsicopal minister[3]: 46
- Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, and literary critic[5]
- Barrett Wendell (honorary), author of a series of textbooks including English Composition, studies of Cotton Mather and William Shakespeare[3]: 46
- Thorton Wilder, playwright and novelist[5]
- Peter M. Wolf, author and land planning and urban policy authority[4]: 72
- George Edward Woodberry (honorary), literary critic and poet[3]: 46
- Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and vice chairman of S&P Global[2]
Politics
- Charles Montague Bakewell, United States House of Representatives[3]: 48
- Jonathan B. Bingham, U.S. House of Representatives and US delegate to the United Nations General Assembly[4]: 28
- William L. Borden, executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy[15]
- William Christian Bullitt Jr., U.S. Ambassidor to France and U.S. Ambassidor to the Soviet Union[3]: 4
- Edwin Corning, Lieutenant Governor of New York[3]: 49
- Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut[4]: 5 [3]: 3
- Simeon E. Baldwin (honorary), Governor of Connecticut and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors[3]: 45
- Aaron Vanderpoel, U.S. House of Representatives[3]: 3
References
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- ^ Yale Banner and Pot Pourri, New Haven, CT, Class of 1919, pg. 309
- ^ "In memoriam: Cyrus Hamlin | Yale News". YaleNews. 2011-01-24. Retrieved 2026-03-13 – via Yale University.
- ^ Studios, Volpe (1957-04-06). "C. H.Pforzheimer, Banker, 79, Dead; Broker Who Was Civic Leader in Westchester Collected Writings of Shelley". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
- ^ "David F. Swensen Chief Investment Officer". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
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- ^ "'Limited Service Only'". Springfield Weekly Republican. July 31, 1919 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "George Selden". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 2026-03-13.
- ^ "Georgia Inglehart Engaged to Marry; Graduate Student at Smith Alumna of College, Will Be Bride of William Borden". The New York Times. May 9, 1942. p. 14. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2026-03-13.