Matthew Digby Wyatt (1820-1877), architect, art historian, Secretary of the Great Exhibition, first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge. Andrew Roberts (1963-), historian, journalist, Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Edward Williams (rower) (1888-1915), British rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics, killed in action in the First World War. The premises were commandeered during the Second World War and made available to the public. The Holmesdale Natural History Club was founded in 1857, but for many years we didn't have our own premises and rented space in a number of places, including the upper floor of the old town hall - now Cafe Nero. The Club now occupies the first floor of the building. As the Club went through mounting financial difficulties in the 1990s, it sold a 25-year leasehold on the ground floor of its building to the Pizza Express chain in October 1997, although the ground floor had been in use as a restaurant (once known as Xanadu), since at least 1982. The Pizza Express closed during the Covid-19 pandemic, and from 2023 The Kibou Japanese Kitchen & Bar occupies the ground floor.

Nearly the whole of the top floor is taken up by a large banquet hall, What is a billiards club vaulted by handsome rafters. The large plaque of Pitt's head that adorns the pediment over the entrance to the Club was presented in February 1933 by General Sir Neill Malcolm. Over the course of the Pitt Club's first few decades, the political element diminished whilst the social element increased. David Watkin (1941-2018), architectural historian and President of the University Pitt Club. Alciatore, David G. (January 2007). "Throw - Part IV: Inside/Outside English" (PDF). David Frost (1939-2013), television host, media personality, comedian and writer, known for his interviews with Richard Nixon. Holt, Richard (1990). Sport and the British: A Modern History. Lord Richard Cavendish (1871-1946), British aristocrat, author, magistrate, and Liberal politician. Edward Grenfell, 1st Baron St Just (1870-1941), British banker and politician. Edward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten (1830-1913), Anglo-Irish rower, barrister, Conservative-Unionist politician and law lord. Lord George Manners (1820-1874), British nobleman and Conservative Party politician. Walter George Headlam (1866-1908), a British classical scholar and poet, perhaps best remembered for his work on the Mimes of Herodas. How Does Private Search Work?

The University Pitt Club, popularly referred to as the Pitt Club, the UPC, or merely as Club, is a private members' club of the University of Cambridge. Alex McGinley represented the club in the All-Ireland Championships in Dublin in the early eighties dressed in white shirt, dickie-bow and black waistcoat, a sight that delighted the club members. This did not pass without controversy, though, with only resident members being granted a vote. After the closure, a liquidation sale ensued, and the building was auctioned off in 1865, being bought by its own architect, Wyatt, for £2,700. It temporarily closed in October 1917 but reopened in early 1919. By 1920, the Club had 'become nearly normal again, "the only real trouble", according to the Minutes, "being the horrible scarcity of whisky'". As for the members, they were forced to seek alternative accommodation and eventually settled for temporary rooms above the post office in Trinity Street, which they called the Interim Club. He rented out half of the building to the Pitt Club, and the other half to Orme's Billiards Rooms. Alexander Armstrong (1970-), best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.

The Billiards Association published a new set of rules 1 October 1898 that prohibited the push shot stroke, and promoted one championship rather than two. They failed to finish by midnight so Jim Keeney sent the two contestants home for a good night's rest, leaving the balls in the third frame as they lay. The young lad was getting good and Capt. The club had run a bingo under the auspices of Fr. Tommy Doherty as a fundraising measure but as the cinema takings declined, the parish took over the running of the bingo and a major source of revenue to the club dried up. A low moaning sound was coming from somewhere over our heads. Several of these players are sadly no longer with us but their styles of play influenced those who came after. But say no more than you are told to say, or here came the nervous giggle againyou had better never have been born. In particular the University Pitt Club was intended 'to assist the local party organisations of the town of Cambridge to return worthy, that is to say, Tory, representatives to Parliament and to the Borough Council'.