List of Elizabethan Club members

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 School
• 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