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For 199 years, the Athenaeum Club has stood as a bastion of civility and conviviality, a Neoclassical haven on Pall Mall where scientists and engineers mingle freely with artists and writers.

The villain of the piece, in Richard Davenport-Hines eyes, is not so much the club chairman, the admittedly right-on Dame Ann Limb, but her colleagues on the ruling committee.