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Phyllis Court Club
Founded	2 June 1906 (1906-06-02)^[1]
Founder	Roy Finlay
Type	Private members club
Focus	Club and hotel on the River Thames
Location	Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Website	www.phylliscourt.co.uk

Phyllis Court is a building that currently houses a private members club in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, situated by the River Thames.

The Club was founded in 1906 and is located in a Georgian-style building set within its own grounds, close to the town centre. It overlooks the finish line of the Henley Royal Regatta and is also slightly downstream (and on the opposite bank) from Leander Club and upstream of Remenham Club and Upper Thames Rowing Club. There is a rowing club on the river at Phyllis Court, the Phyllis Court Rowing Club, for recreational rowing.^[2]

History

The original building on this site dates from 1301.^[3] It was the manor house of Henley-on-Thames and was known as Fillets Court. Queen Anne, the consort of King James I, visited the house in 1604. In 1643, troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell built a wall which still edges the garden near the river. The wall was built with the bricks remaining from the old Manor House which was burned by Royalists. ^{[citation needed]} In the mid 17th century, Phillis Court was the home of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke (1605–1675), parliamentarian and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, who before his death gave it up to his son William Whitelock, later Tory member of parliament for the University of Oxford.^[4] In 1689, William of Orange, on his way to London, held his first court here. Sir William Whitelock died at the house in 1717.^[5] The property later belonged to Edward Cooper, who sold Phillis Court to Sambrooke Freeman, the owner of Fawley Court nearby, in 1768.^[6]^[7]

In 1939, the clubhouse was requisitioned by HM Government for the duration of the Second World War. It was first used as a WAAF Officers' mess for the Central Interpretation Unit at RAF Medmenham. Later it housed a top-secret unit making important photographic mosaics and models of the future Allied landing beaches in France and planning many raids including the "Dambusters". The clubhouse ended the war on a more peaceful note being used by the American Red Cross as a rest centre for war-weary airmen.^{[citation needed]} On 6 November 1998, Queen Elizabeth II visited the Club before travelling upriver by boat to open the River and Rowing Museum.^[8]

List of chairmen of the council

The following have been chairmen of the council for Phyllis Court:^{[citation needed]}

1935-1937 - Brigadier General E. S. Hoare Nairne, CB, CMG
1937-1938 - Sir Gilbert Eliott, Bart.
1938-1944 - Brigadier General E. S. Hoare Nairne, CB, CMG
1944-1953 - Commander Robert H. Glen, RNVR
1953-1955 - Captain H.J. Pullein Thompson, MC
1955-1958 - H.R.E. Bradshaw
1958-1961 - J.A. Burrell
1961-1964 - M.K. Watson
1964-1967 - G.J. Abraham, OBE
1967-1970 - Dr W.A. Alexander
1970-1973 - A.J. Claisse, JP
1973-1976 - H.P. Rosewarne
1976-1977 - Group Captain R.E.G. Brittain, MA, RAF (Rtd)
1977-1978 - W.A. Sivyer
1978 - Sir Edward Beetham, KCMG, CVO, OBE
1978-1983 - H. Harly-Burton, TD
1983-1985 - Mrs Norah Adlam
1985-1988 - R.R. Willgoss
1988-1990 - A.J. Dore
1990-1993 - E.V. Adams, CB
1993-1995 - J.A. Simmons
1995-1997 - N.R. Laurie
1997-1999 - G.R. Hattam
1999-2001 - S.B. Drew
2001-2003 - P.T. Williamson
2003-2004 - A.F.M. Friendship
2004 - A.D. Robson
2004-2007 - T.R.G. Johansen
2007-2009 - D.A.E. Melck (Deon Adrian Melck)
2009-2012 - F.G. Fielding
2012-2015 - J.B. Hardman
2015-2018 - Patricia Christmas
2018-2019 - Barry Jackson
2019-2022 - Stan Ainsley
2022-Present - Barry Jackson (2nd Term)

References

^ Tomes, Jason (2012). Phyllis Court, Club and Manor. Henley-on-Thames: Phyllis Court Members Club Ltd. p. 14. ISBN 9780957322905.
^ "Phyllis Court Rowing Club". pccrowing.wixsite.com. Wixsite. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ "History of Phyllis Court Club". UK: Phyllis Court Members Club. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
^ Humphry William Woolrych, Eminent Serjeants-at-law of the English bar (Vol. 1, 1869), p. 381
^ John Phillips, Titles and honours conferred by His late Majesty King George I. and His present Majesty, in Great-Britain and Ireland (1728), p. 115: "Sir William Whitelock of Phillis-Court in the County of Oxon. Knight, Member for the University of Oxford, one of His Majesty's Council at Law, Nov. 22. 1717."
^ Emily J. Climenson (editor), Passages from the Diaries of Mrs. Philip Lybbe Powys, Kessinger Publishing, 2008. ISBN 978-1-4365-6715-2.
^ Kendal, Roger; Bowen, Jane; Wortley, Laura (2002). Genius & Gentility: Henley in the Age of Enlightenment. River & Rowing Museum. ISBN 0-9535571-2-X.
^ "HM The Queen at Phyllis Court". UK: Phyllis Court Members Club. Retrieved 6 April 2020.

External links

Phyllis Court Club website

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