15 Facts About Bullingdon Club

Bullingdon Club is a private all-male dining club for Oxford University students.

Wisden Cricketer reports that the Bullingdon Club is "ostensibly one of the two original Oxford University cricket teams but it actually used cricket merely as a respectable front for the mischievous, destructive or self-indulgent tendencies of its members".

The New York Times told its readers in 1913 that "The Bullingdon represents the acme of exclusiveness at Oxford; it is the club of the sons of nobility, the sons of great wealth; its membership represents the 'young bloods' of the university".

The Bullingdon Club President, known as the "General", presents the winner's cup, and the Bullingdon Club members meet at the race for a champagne breakfast.

In 2007, a photograph of the Bullingdon Club taken in 1987 was discovered – making British headlines because two of the posing members, Boris Johnson and David Cameron, both of whom had gone on to careers in politics and were, at the time, Conservative candidate for Mayor of London and Leader of the Conservative party respectively.

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In June 2017, members of the Bullingdon Club attempting to shoot their annual Bullingdon Club Photo on the steps of Christ Church were escorted out by college porters for not securing permission for the shoot.

Bullingdon Club has always been noted for its wealthy members, grand banquets, and boisterous rituals, including the vandalisation of restaurants, public houses, and college rooms, complemented by a tradition of on-the-spot payment for damage.

Infamously on 12 May 1894, after dinner, Bullingdon Club members smashed almost all the glass of the lights and 468 windows in Peckwater Quad of Christ Church, along with the blinds and doors of the building, and again on 20 February 1927.

Bullingdon Club eventually obtained it only on the understanding that he never join in what was then known as a "Bullingdon blind", a euphemistic phrase for an evening of drink and song.

In December 2005, Bullingdon Club members smashed 17 bottles of wine, "every piece of crockery, " and a window at the 15th-century White Hart pub in Fyfield, Oxfordshire.

Bullingdon Club is not currently registered with the University of Oxford, but members are drawn from among the members of the University.

In October 2018, the Oxford University Conservative Association announced that members of the Bullingdon Club would be banned from holding office within the Association.

David Cameron's and Boris Johnson's period in the Bullingdon Club was examined in the UK Channel 4 docu-drama When Boris Met Dave, broadcast on 7 October 2009 on More 4.

In talking to Charles Ryder, Anthony Blanche relates that the Bullingdon Club attempted to "put him in Mercury" in Tom Quad one evening, Mercury being a large fountain in the centre of the Quad.

Bullingdon Club has been accused of having a member burn a £50 note in front of a homeless man, and for "trashing" a pub in Oxford.