The Elizabethan Club is a social club that was founded in 1911 at Yale University. Following are some of the notable members of the Elizabethan Club.

Academia

Wilbur Cortez Abbott, historian and professor at Yale University George Burton Adams, medievalist historian who taught at Yale University George Pierce Baker (honorary), professor of English at Harvard University and Yale University Alfred Bellinger, archaeologist and numismatist who taught at Yale University Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University and dean of Yale College Clive Day, professor of economic history at Yale University Henry Walcott Farnam, professor of political economy at Yale University Richard Foster Flint, professor of geology at Yale University Charles Mills Gayley (honorary), professor of English, the classics, and academic dean of the University of California, Berkeley A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale University, commissioner of Major League Baseball, and President of th e National League Alfred Whitney Griswold, president of Yale University Ashbel Green Gulliver, dean of Yale Law SchoolYale Banner and Pot Pourri, New Haven, CT, Class of 1919, pg. 309 Francis Barton Gummere (honorary), English professor at Haverford College; folklore and ancient languages scholar Arthur Twining Hadley (honorary), president of Yale University Cyrus Hamlin, English and literature professor at Yale University and the University of Toronto Ray Heffner, president of Brown University William Ernest Hocking, philosophy professor at Harvard University G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Sterling Professor of Zoology at Yale University A. V. Williams Jackson (honorary), professor of Indo-Iranian languages at Columbia University Albert Galloway Keller, sociologist and professor at Yale University George Kubler, art historian Charlton Miner Lewis, chair of the English Department at Yale University Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, scholar and founder of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale University Thomas Lounsbury (honorary), professor of English language and literature at Yale University Henry Noble MacCracken, president of Vassar College John Matthews Manly (honorary), professor of English literature and philology at the University of Chicago Edward Parmelee Morris, classist and professor at Yale University Wallace Notestein, Sterling Professor of English History at Yale University Bernadotte Perrin, Lampson Professor of Greek literature and history at Yale University Henri Peyre, linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French emeritus at Yale University William Lyon Phelps, Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale University Eugene V. Rostow, dealn of Yale Law School Felix Emanuel Schelling (honorary), professor of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania Vincent Scully, art historian and professor at Yale University Charles Seymour, president of Yale University Ted Sizer, founder and president of the Essential Schools Movement Chauncey Brewster Tinker, scholar of English Literature and Sterling Professor at Yale University Charles Cutler Torrey, taught Semitic languages at Andover Theological Seminary and Yale University Williston Walker, church historian with Yale University John Ferguson Weir, painter, sculptor, first director and dean of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University

Art and architecture

Grosvenor Atterbury, architect, urban planner and writer Carroll Carstairs, art dealer George S. Chappell, architect 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 Huc-Mazelet Luquiens, printmaker and painter Robert Osborn, satiric cartoonist and illustrator

Business

John Crosby Brown, senior partner in the investment bank Brown Bros. & Co. Alexander Smith Cochran, manufacturer, sportsman, and philanthropist Gifford A. Cochran, owner of Thoroughbred racehorses and winner Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes Theodore Low De Vinne (honorary), printer and scholarly author on typography Henry Clay Folger (honorary), chairman of Standard Oil of New York and co-founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library Edward Harkness, director of the Southern Pacific Railroad and philanthropist Henry E. Huntington (honorary) creator of the Central Pacific Railroad and collector of art and rare books Carl Pforzheimer (honorary), a founder of the American Stock Exchange David F. Swensen, investor, endowment fund manager, and philanthropist

Entertainment

T. Lawrason Riggs, lyricist who worked with Cole Porter and Catholic priest David Stanley Smith, classical composer Jeremy Strong, actor

Law

Edward Jordan Dimock, senior judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York Theodore Salisbury Woolsey, legal scholar and professor of international law at Yale Law School

Librarianship

William Loring Andrews (honorary), first librarian of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Ridgely Hunt, librarian of the Yale University Library Andrew Keogh (honorary), head librarian of Yale University Library Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress, poet, and Assistant Secretary of State for Public and Cultural Relations John Christopher Schwab (honorary), librarian of the Yale University Library Addison Van Name, University Librarian of Yale University Thomas James Wise (honorary), bibliophile who collected the Ashley Library, now housed by the British Library

Literature and journalism

Thomas Beer, biographer, novelist, essayist, satirist, and author of short fiction Henry Augustin Beers, poet, author, literary historian, and professor at Yale University Stephen Vincent Benét, poet, short story writer, and novelist Harold Bloom, literary critic, scholar, and writer C. D. B. Bryan, author and journalist William F. Buckley Jr., novelist, conservative author and commentator Henry Seidel Canby, literary critic, editor, and Yale University professor Jack Randall Crawford, novelist, playwright, and literary critic Clarence Day, author best known for Life with Father Lee Wilson Dodd, playwright, poet, novelist, and short story writer Rufus King, author of detective stories Stoddard King, author and songwriter Brian Hooker, poet and author Kenneth Rand, poet George Selden, novelist Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. (honorary), biographer and Epsicopal minister Robert Penn Warren, poet, novelist, and literary critic Barrett Wendell (honorary), author of a series of textbooks including English Composition, studies of Cotton Mather and William Shakespeare Thorton Wilder, playwright and novelist Peter M. Wolf, author and land planning and urban policy authority George Edward Woodberry (honorary), literary critic and poet Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and vice chairman of S&P Global

Politics

Charles Montague Bakewell, United States House of Representatives Jonathan B. Bingham, U.S. House of Representatives and US delegate to the United Nations General Assembly William L. Borden, executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy William Christian Bullitt Jr., U.S. Ambassidor to France and U.S. Ambassidor to the Soviet Union Edwin Corning, Lieutenant Governor of New York Wilbur Lucius Cross, Governor of Connecticut Simeon E. Baldwin (honorary), Governor of Connecticut and chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors Aaron Vanderpoel, U.S. House of Representatives

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