a convivial association which came into existence in London about the time of the Revolution. From the Whig leanings of most of its members, it gradually assumed a political character. Addison, Steele, Walpole, Marlborough, and others who belonged to it, were the last friends of the Hanoverian succession; and it is principally through the portraits of these distinguished men, as members of the club (painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller, himself a member), that the fame of these reunions has been handed down. It was held in Shire Lane, in the house of Christopher (Kit) Cat, a pastry cook, who supplied them with mutton pies. The club dissolved somewhere about 1720.